By Madeline St. Amour. More high school students are getting a head start on college, but dual enrollment is costly for some colleges. More...
27 octobre 2019
27 octobre 2019
Food Security Is Fluid, Report Says
By Madeline St. Amour. In the report, "Studying on Empty: A Qualitative Study of Low Food Security Among College Students," Trellis followed 72 students in Texas and Florida for nine months to see how food security affected them. In that time, 36 students were either low or very low food secure at least once. More...
27 octobre 2019
Tapping Coaches to Help Re-Enroll Students
By Madeline St. Amour. The Texas A&M system is using ReUp Education to find students who stopped out and to help them re-enroll and graduate. More...
27 octobre 2019
Feasibility of Free College in Connecticut
By Madeline St. Amour. Mark Ojakian, president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system, told state legislative leaders in a letter that he is "increasingly concerned about the viability" of the funding source for a debt-free community college program the state approved with legislation this year. More...
27 octobre 2019
La 2e édition du congrès « pHysiopathology Of Parkinson's disEase » (HOPE) se tiendra du 29 au 31 janvier 2020 à l'ICM à Paris
Suite au succès rencontré par la première édition et aux retours très stimulants des participants quant aux exposés sur les avancées scientifiques les plus récentes et l'intégration de la recherche fondamentale vers la recherche clinique, nous vous invitons à prendre part à cette deuxième édition. Les thèmes abordés couvriront les déterminants génétiques et épigénétiques de la maladie de Parkinson, leurs mécanismes moléculaires et leurs modélisations, afin de mieux comprendre la physiopathologie de cette affection et ouvrir des perspectives pré-cliniques, cliniques et d'imagerie.
En complément, nous proposons un atelier le premier jour autour de deux thèmes qui seront abordés par la suite lors du congrès
1) Modélisation cellulaire en faisant appel aux technologies de microfluidique et cellules souches
2) Outils d'imagerie pour les modèles cellulaires et chez l'homme Les soumissions et inscriptions sont ouvertes sur le site du congrès : https://hope2020.sciencesconf.org/. Plus...
27 octobre 2019
Princeton Theological Commits $27.6 Million for Reparations
By Elizabeth Redden. Princeton Theological Seminary is committing $27.6 million to an endowment for slavery reparations, the Presbyterian seminary announced.
Funds will be used to support more than 20 new initiatives. These include establishing 30 new scholarships, valued at the cost of tuition plus $15,000, for students who are descendants of slaves or who are from underrepresented groups; hiring a full-time director for the Center for Black Church Studies; and hiring a new faculty member focused on African American experience and ecclesiastical life. The institution will also make changes to the seminary curriculum and will name the library after Theodore Sedgwick Wright, the first African American to graduate from the seminary. More...
27 octobre 2019
Singapore Official: Canceled Course Raised Concerns
By Elizabeth Redden. Singapore’s minister of education weighed in on the cancellation of a course on dissent at Yale-NUS College, arguing in a speech printed in full in The Straits Times that “academic freedom cannot be carte blanche for anyone to misuse an academic institution for political advocacy.” More...
27 octobre 2019
Instructor of Canceled Yale-NUS Course Speaks Out
By Elizabeth Redden. The would-be instructor of a canceled course at Yale-NUS College has spoken out to say he’s been scapegoated by Yale University in its zealousness to argue that the cancellation of the course on the topic of dissent at its jointly operated campus in Singapore did not raise academic freedom concerns. More...
27 octobre 2019
Tufts to Keep Confucius Institute
By Elizabeth Redden. Tufts University decided to keep its Confucius Institute agreement after a yearlong review.
More than 20 U.S. universities have closed their Confucius Institutes over the last two years as the Chinese government-funded centers for language education and cultural programming have come under scrutiny from American lawmakers, from both parties. More...
27 octobre 2019
Public Charge Rule Temporarily Blocked
By Elizabeth Redden. Three separate federal judges on Friday issued injunctions temporarily blocking the implementation of the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, The New York Times reported. More...
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