Tag: Mental Health: Page 9

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Must Be Up for the Challenge

Increasing retention and graduation rates for Black males will require an ambitious effort from both stakeholders and policy makers.

October 6, 2014

Disabilties

In Case You Missed It …

Kurt Schmoke Looks to Raise University of Baltimore’s Profile Diverse Conversations: Three Ways HBCUs Can Avoid Dying Out NYU’s Initiative for Women With Disabilities Provides Holistic Wellness Services Wilberforce University Moving Closer to Naming President

September 18, 2014

African-American

West Virginia University Professor Studies Issues of Female Veterans

Women have experienced violence in combat, sexual harassment and sexual trauma — and they’re finding their issues upon return are different than their male counterparts.

September 11, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Some Helicopter Parents Have Evolved Into Snow Plow Parents

From college campuses to workplaces, a number of parents have deeply imposed themselves into their children’s lives even once they reach adulthood.

August 26, 2014

Sports

Delayed for Weeks in Liberia, 6 Tuskegee University Students Return to U.S.

Most international flights in an out of the West African nation had been canceled because of the Ebola epidemic.

August 20, 2014

Home

Medical Examiner: Vermont Law School Professor Committed Suicide

The state medical examiner said a prominent Vermont Law School professor who died last month committed suicide using a handgun and her husband is saying she should not have been allowed to buy the gun following treatment for depression.

August 5, 2014

HBCUs

Family of Cal Player to File Wrongful Death Suit

Attorneys representing the family of former California football player Ted Agu are planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the Regents of the University of California.

August 4, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Alum Donates School-Record $3M to Huston-Tillotson University

Huston-Tillotson University alum Ada Cecilia Collins Anderson donated $3 million to her alma mater Monday.

June 24, 2014

HBCUs

Plan to House Immigrant Children at St. Paul’s University on Hold

Hundreds of Central American children and teenagers are to be housed on the campus of the closed college in rural Virginia amid complaints by local officials.

June 16, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Deborah Tannen – University Professor, Georgetown University

Author of more than 20 books, Tannen is a university professor and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. […]

April 28, 2014

Students

Jill Biden Promotes Post-9/11 GI Bill Website

Jill Biden is promoting a new website designed to make it easier for service members, veterans, their spouses and dependents to calculate their Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits at thousands of schools and job training programs.

April 16, 2014

Students

A Young Minority-Serving Institution on the Move

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona SENIOR STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICER: Pomona, California Dr. Douglas R. Freer Founded in 1938 Vice President for Student Services www.csupomona.edu Founded in 1938 and one of only two polytechnic universities in the state, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) is known for its learn-by-doing philosophy. The university recognizes that […]

April 8, 2014