The federal government has awarded Bergen Community College a five-year, $4.5 million grant to help contribute to the growth of future food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences (FANH) professionals. The 2023 Feeding the Economy report commissioned by agriculture industry leaders shows that nearly 20% of all U.S. economic activity ($8.6 trillion) comes from the […]
An accomplished educator and administrator, Bernstein is provost emeritus at Stony Brook University, having previously served as that institution's interim president from August 2019 through May 2020. During that time, he guided the university through unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, including a move to fully remote instruction for a period in 2020. Bernstein […]
Seven members of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Wyoming's only four-year state university sued in March, saying the sorority violated its own rules by admitting Artemis Langford last year. Six of the women refiled the lawsuit in May after a judge twice barred them from suing anonymously. The sorority sisters opposed to Langford's induction could presumably […]
The hearing came amid a flurry of federal and state government petitions to remove the bachelor's degree as a barrier. The Biden administration has kept a Trump-era executive order that reduces degree requirements in federal job postings. Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-NC., sponsored a bill to increase skills-based recruiting for federal jobs that passed 422-2. […]
It is an open secret that the most selective U.S. colleges largely admit the children of the wealthy. Graduates of these colleges go on to be greatly overrepresented among the ranks of the economic and political elite. It is a system that perpetuates class hierarchy within and across generations. Public shaming will do little to change it. To […]
Purdue, for example, has agreed to its twelfth consecutive year of freezing tuition, set below $10,000. The university estimates that this decision has saved students more than $1 billion on educational and living expenses since 2013. However, most public institutions cannot afford to set a tuition freeze without state funding.
The Board of Regents will meet with the ad hoc chancellor search committee on Thursday, June 29, to discuss the three finalists. If the committee makes a recommendation, the board will hold a special meeting on Friday, June 30, to consider naming a new chancellor. Former state superintendent Dale Erquiaga has been the acting chancellor […]
These survey results come two weeks after the U.S. Surgeon General testified before a Senate Health, Labor and Pensions Panel advising social media to be given a warning label due to its contribution to youth mental health becoming "the defining public health issue of our time."
Students who don't know that colleges prioritize calculus find themselves at a disadvantage in college admissions, according to "Integral Voices: Examining Math Experiences of Underrepresented Students," a recent report from Just Equations, a California-based policy institute focused on making math more equitable. When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they'd been given in […]
Thanks to a $200 million donation, University of California, Irvine, is tripling down to its commitment to integrative medicine with the newly constructed Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, which conjoins the Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences.
