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Subject: The Edge: Students Need Emergency Aid. Peers, Advocates, and Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative to Deliver It. I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need. Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges�...

Highlander Ryan Poon /The Highlander At the beginning of 2020, UCR lost its designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution after a filing omission occurred under UCR’s Office of Planning, Budget and Administration that caused them to miss the filing deadline for 2020. UCR estimates that it lost $2.4 million in Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund and Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act funding due to losing its HSI designation. The university has officially regained its status as a HSI after approval from the U.S. Department of Education.  Hispanic-Serving Institutio...

Media Credit: File Photo by Connor Witschonke | Staff Photographer Robinette said officials would turn to experts like residential staff to handle the RA responsibilities. Updated: Feb. 25, 2021 at 8:08 p.m. The University will cancel the Resident Adviser program, transferring responsibilities to residential staff and providing employment positions for residential life for more than 200 students in the upcoming academic year. Stewart Robinette, the assistant dean of students, said in an email to the current RA cohort that officials will transfer all “counseling, safety and on-call” resp...

A University of Colorado work-study student in the campus cafeteria   When I was the same age my kids are now, I was a giant Carl Sagan fan. Cosmos had begun airing on PBS, and for my birthday there was just one thing I wanted: a $50 donation to the Buffalo PBS affiliate. That was the only way to get the not-available-in-any-store (especially not a Canadian store) Cosmos companion book featuring lots of photos of Cornell’s least modest professor of astronomy and space sciences. My friends got Gretzky jerseys so they could skate like stars, but this nerd wanted Cosmos because we’re all...

Legislation introduced in Congress would give college students additional opportunities to gain experience in the field of early childhood education.