Funded by the University of Northern British Columbia and the Hakai Institute, the powerful set of computers show the mass loss of Earth’s glaciers has increased at unexpected rates. The University of Northern British Columbia is home to a supercomputer that’s giving researchers insight into one of the world’s most pressing issues: climate change. The […]
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The latest report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) shows a significant decline in transfer student enrollment by 8.4 percent. Higher education institutions across America lost over 190,000 transfer students in the last year alone. The drop is especially significant in lateral transfers when students transfer from one two-year college to another, or from one
I wrote in a previous piece about the need to inspire “tech dreams.” Dreams need to be ignited for students to have the internal motivation to want to pursue careers in the emerging tech sector. This, however, is just one needed component on the road to the actualization of the dream. Every dream requires discipline
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Seventeen years ago, just before his 18th birthday, Frank Williams had an epiphany that changed his life. “I wanted to just hang out in the streets with my friends — or I thought they were my friends,” Williams recalls. He had already dropped out of high school. “I had other things I wanted to do
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Dr. Charles M. RoesselDiné College has increased the minimum wage for full-time employees to $15 an hour. There are 276 employees at the college. Federal and Navajo Nation minimum wage is $7.25. Arizona and New Mexico independently increased their minimum wages to $12.15 an hour and $10.50 an hour, respectively. Diné College President Dr. Charles
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Ashley Bliss LimaThe Hope Center and Jobs for the Future (JFF) have partnered in an effort to accelerate the distribution of emergency aid to college students affected by the pandemic. They will work with the JFF Student Success Center Network and 52 of its member community colleges to adapt best practices that address students’ basic
Hurricane Ida on Sunday crashed through Louisiana’s coast and onto neighboring Mississippi, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, including the city of New Orleans. Colleges and universities in and near the city are now tackling another crisis on top of the Delta variant’s spread as the academic year begins. “We came back this
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Using campus as testing grounds, WATonoBus pushes limits of autonomous transit. A small bus that’s becoming a familiar sight at the University of Waterloo could represent a giant leap in self-driving transit. That’s what Amir Khajepour, an engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems, is hoping. He’s the lead researcher on the
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In 2014, Dr. Leah Hollis accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University. At the time of her hire, Hollis, already a renowned expert in the field of institutional bullying, had ten years of teaching experience, had co-edited a collection of peer reviewed essays, co-authored
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This summer saw the release of In the Heights, a film celebrated for highlighting Latinx culture and critiqued for excluding Afro-Latinos. A recent poll from Gallup also found that only 4% of those identifying as Latina/Latino/Hispanic prefer the term Latinx. 23% prefer Hispanic, 15% Latina or Latino, and 57% have no preference. Debates over who
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