December 2022

It would likely not make sense for someone to repeatedly run sprints, do agility drills, and hoist their body into another person for no reason. It isn’t until the context of football and the opportunities that participation in the sport entails that it would make sense for those students who choose to play to engage […]

Sharon P. PittSharon P. Pitt has been appointed Brown University’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer. Pitt served as vice president for information technologies and chief information officer at the University of Delaware. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech.

While COVID-19 had a disproportionate impact on many marginalized communities, one of the hardest hit populations were incarcerated individuals. By March 2022, two years after the pandemic began its catastrophic spread across the United States, over 588,000 cases of Covid spread through the U.S. prison system. A prison’s close quarters quickly blossomed into infection hotspots,

A former Coppin State University (CSU) basketball player is suing the school, alleging sexual assault and blackmail from an assistant basketball coach, the Baltimore Brew reported. According to the lawsuit, the coach, Lucian Brownlee, catfished a player online into providing intimate photos and texts and blackmailed him into videotaping a sexual encounter before publicizing the

Vassar College President Dr. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Bradley has been awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, Yale University Graduate School’s highest alumni honor. Bradley was commended for her scholarly work in public health and her commitment to the health and well-being of local and global communities.Dr. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Bradley She is lauded for her efforts

Dr. Art Pimentel will become president of Folsom Lake College, effective Jan. 9, 2023.Dr. Art Pimentel Most recently, Pimentel was president of Woodland Community College. Other positions he has held include Woodland City Council member; mayor of Woodland; Woodland Joint Unified School District board member; and chairman for the Yolo County Transportation District, Yolo-Solano Air

President Joe Biden has signed into law the VETS Credit Act, a policy to ensure student veterans can easily transfer course credits to another institution should their school close or program abruptly end.President Joe Biden The legislation had passed the U.S. House 412-1 in May with bipartisan support and passed the U.S. Senate unanimously in

Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed will become Bethune-Cookman University’s head football coach after the school announced that it had agreed for him to step into the role, Yahoo Sports reported.Ed Reed “Bethune-Cookman University Athletics has entered an agreement in principle with Pro Football Hall of Famer Ed Reed to be its 16th head football

Sprinkled throughout the last-minute 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus federal spending bill that was signed right before Christmas by President Joe Biden, are funding provisions and policy changes that impact the world of higher education. The new legislation was welcomed by policy experts, although it did not contain everything that they had hoped for. Dr. Dominique

Abby Kasowitz-ScheerAbby Kasowitz-Scheer has been named head of Syracuse University Libraries’ department of learning and academic engagement. Kasowitz-Scheer has a bachelor’s degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University as well as a Master of Library Sciences degree and a master’s in instructional design, development, and evaluation from Syracuse University.