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CNN — New information has revealed that other people were on the beach when US college student Sudiksha Konanki went missing in the Dominican Republic, law enforcement officials assisting in the investigation told CNN, as the search goes into its seventh day. The 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student vanished at the beach of the Riu […]
So far, this series has been highlighting advice from educators to colleagues about how they can respond to the present political climate. I also asked my students what teachers and schools should be doing right now …. ‘Spreading Awareness’ Kim Phan is a junior at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif.: Teachers, students, and […]
Twenty-year-old Rikyra Wilson, a native of St. Catherine, Jamaica, and co-founder of the Black Medical Network (BMN) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, has partnered with Nigerian student Chelsea Martins-Ezeifeaku to create an organization focused on positioning Black international students for success in the medical field. Wilson is one of two Jamaicans in BMN. […]
CNN — More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a recent hearing in the case against Bryan Kohberger – the man accused of stabbing four students to death in an off-campus home. The hearing, which was closed to the public, came after defense attorney Anne […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one […]
The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday after the Trump Administration began warning universities of funding cuts if they continued diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI Feb. 23 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended its scholarship program for students at historically Black colleges and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold. The U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, which provided recipients with full tuition and fees for students studying agriculture, food or natural resource sciences at one […]
Secretary Brooke Rollins will review the scholarship program’s mission and metrics. This is being done to ensure taxpayer resources are being used efficiently. President Trump’s administration’s funding freeze has already faced legal challenges, resulting in a temporary hold on the executive action. The universities affected by this suspension include Alabama A&M, Florida A&M, North Carolina […]
Feb. 22 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended its scholarship program for students at historically Black colleges and universities while reviewing the program. The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Tuesday after the Trump Administration began warning universities of funding cuts if they continued diversity, equity and […]