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[ad_1] American Anthropological Association members will vote this summer on a resolution “to boycott Israeli academic institutions,” after a similar effort failed by just 39 votes in 2016. A group called the Anthropologists for the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions says on its website that 206 members of the American Anthropological Association requested a full …

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[ad_1] Key House Democratic leaders are calling again on the Education Department to withdraw 2011 guidance that allowed for revenue-sharing agreements between online program managers and institutions of higher education. On Tuesday, Connecticut representative Rosa DeLauro, ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee; California representative Mark Takano, ranking member on the House Committee on Veterans’ …

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[ad_1] Today on the Academic Minute: Chris Linder, associate professor of higher education and director of the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at the University of Utah, explains why we should focus more on preventing sexual assault than avoiding it. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder is calling for a state investigation and the firing of Virginia Commonwealth University president Michael Rao amid reports that the VCU Health System paid $73 million to exit a planned Richmond development project, Richmond BizSense reported. “I call for the Joint Legislative Audit & Review Commission to conduct an …

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[ad_1] A former president of Kentucky State University broke NCAA rules by directing athletics staff to allow a football player to compete even though he was no longer eligible, the NCAA found Tuesday. In response, the NCAA placed the public, historically Black university on probation for two years and fined it $2,000. Kentucky State, which …

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[ad_1] During her last semester in the University of Texas at Austin’s master’s of social work program, Beth Wagner worked three jobs: 27 hours a week as a mental health counselor for employees of Goodwill of Central Texas and a total of 25 hours a week as a teaching assistant for two UT Austin courses. …

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