More than a year after he took office promising to put a
welcoming new face on U.S. foreign policy, President Obama has left
allies in higher education increasingly puzzled over one glaring
omission.
Cuba.
Mr. Obama took several steps last year toward improving U.S.
relations with Cuba, allowing relatives of Cubans to travel,
communicate, and send money back to their home country. But he
stopped short of ending a policy imposed by President George W.
Bush in 2004 that...
College men participate in campus activities at
disproportionately low rates, but deliberate efforts to recruit
them can help, according to the findings of a two-year study of 14
institutions that was presented here on Tuesday at the annual
conference of Naspa—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher
Education.
"We didn't want to find out how to force men to volunteer. We
wanted to find out how to get them to willingly volunteer," said
Gar E. Kellom, who led the study and...
Nebraska's community colleges reached an agreement on Tuesday to
resolve a long-simmering dispute over governance and the allocation
of state funds, a state senator who helped mediate the dispute
announced.
The dispute reached a high point of acrimony last year after one
of the colleges was kicked out of the association that manages the
institutions, and it in turn sued the other five.
The college that filed the lawsuit, Metropolitan Community
College, in Omaha, contended that...
Hopes for Higher Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the overall quality of life for youth aging out of the foster care system. We aim to impact the educational resiliency of foster youth by forming direct connections with higher education institutions and community organizations. Our efforts are aimed to improve, impact, and initiate life long learning.
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Hopes for Higher Education is a Certifying Organization for the President’s Volunteer Service Award
In respect to sub-scales, the study found that for youth preparing to age out of foster care higher levels of emotional reactivity were associated with lower levels of responsibility. Further, in comparison to their non-foster care peers, youth in foster care scored significantly lower in their sense of relatedness, responsibility, and emotional reactivity. Results from this study will add to the existing body of literature concerning foster youth emancipation.
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Selected from thousands of entries across the United States, Dr. Deborah Sims founder of Hopes for Higher Education is one of 10 national recipients of the Maybelline New York Beauty of Education Award, an award that recognizes women who motivate, mentor and make a difference in their communities through the power of education. Sims will [...]