AcademicInfluence.com announces its ranking of the leading American higher education institutions that excel in the liberal arts:
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AcademicInfluence.com About page for further details on the unique capabilities and advantages of this ranking technology. Job demands are changing. More is expected of today s college graduates. This makes the liberal arts appealing and practical, says Dr. Jed Macosko, academic director of AcademicInfluence.com and professor of physics at Wake Forest University. Students who can demonstrate a breadth of skills and the flexibility to take on anything asked of them are finding greater success postgraduation. Today s business leader need not hold a degree in business
The Martha s Vineyard Times
âTo inspire and educateâ
Artist and storyteller Jannette Vanderhoop depicts history in her treasure boxes.
A treasure box collection by Jannette Vanderhoop. â Courtesy M.V. Museum
Each item in a collection is part of an abstracted story. â Courtesy M.V. Museum
Brian Vanderhoop from the Charter School takes a close look at the treasure box created by Jannette Vanderhoop. â Courtesy M.V. Museum
Nala Pitman from the Charter School takes in the detailed work of Jannette Vanderhoop. â Courtesy M.V. Museum
Jannette Vanderhoop is a storyteller, one who teaches and shares her stories in many different ways. A member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), Vanderhoop is an artist, jeweler, author, illustrator, and educator. In just about everything that she creates, she is looking to enrich people in one way or another. âNo matter what I’m doing, I want to impart knowledge,â she says.
Group of CA Latino Leaders Endorses Bernie Sanders
By Sandra G. Leon
A meeting of nearly 100 Latino community leaders and activists in Los Angeles last week led to a historic endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President just two weeks before the California primary election.
The group, called the Latino Leadership Summit Committee for Sanders for President, was headed by former University of Riverside political science professor Dr. Armando Navarro, Professor Tinker Salas, historian from Pomona College, and retired professor of sociologist Jose Calderon from Pitzer College, and included various community activists that have come together to support Senator Sanders.
“Inspired by Sanders’ transformative agenda and driven by their determination to defeat the re-election of Republican President Donald Trump, Latino Summit participants adopted ‘El Plan de Riverside’,” Dr. Navarro said after the meeting. “It seeks to ignite the rise of a statewide and ultimately a nationwide
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Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
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Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
January 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released $21.2 billion Thursday as part of the coronavirus relief legislation Congress and President Trump approved in December to help colleges and universities nationally. Of that amount, more than $2.83 billion will go to public and private California colleges and universities.
Incarcerated Californians will soon be able to apply for federal Pell Grants to pay for higher education, a move with support across the political spectrum. The change was tucked into the omnibus spending bill signed into law in late December.
Pell Grants, which are the largest source of federally-funded college aid, have been off limits to incarcerated students since 1994, part of the crime bill that also led to mass incarceration.
The change is incredibly exciting, said Keramet Reiter, who directs a new UC Irvine program that will offer the University of California s first bachelor s degree for incarcerated students. She started teaching in prisons in the late 1990s, when the end of Pell Grants led to a drastic decline in higher education offerings for incarcerated people.