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Apr 08 2024
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Full List of Colleges Banning Transgender Athletes After Vote
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) voted on Monday to ban transgender women from women's competitions starting next school year, affecting a total of 241 colleges.
Debates around transgender athletes have soared in recent years, with many conservatives arguing that transgender women competing in all-female leagues allow for an unfair advantage against
NewsweekApr 18 2024
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Rashida Tlaib says colleges punishing anti-Israel students protesting 'genocide': 'It's appalling'
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, criticized American universities on Thursday for responding to anti-Israel protests on campuses across the country where protesters have engaged in antisemitic behavior. "From UM to Vanderbilt to USC to Columbia, students across our country are being retaliated against for using their constitutional rights to protest genocide. It’s appalling," Tlaib wrote
Fox News (Online News)Apr 16 2024
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Elgin Community College to sell $55M in bonds for new manufacturing center, space renovation
Elgin Community College plans to issue $55 million in general obligation bonds to pay for a new manufacturing and technology center and to renovate empty space in Building O on its Spartan Drive campus. The bond sale, expected to take place Sept. 10, will not result in a tax increase, officials said. “There will not be a separate tax levy for these bonds as they are an alternate revenue source
Chicago TribuneApr 08 2024
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With the help of community colleges, students in recovery find a fresh start
“I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” she says. Community colleges are a natural first step for people in recovery, says Jessica Miller at the Ten16 Recovery Network. At two-year institutions, admission is accessible, tuition is affordable, and flexible coursework fits into complicated schedules. That expansion reflects a growing awareness that survivors of opioid
Christian Science MonitorApr 11 2024
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Two-thirds of colleges mandate DEI courses for graduation, report finds
A new report released Thursday by the group Speech First finds that nearly two-thirds of colleges and universities reviewed have requirements for courses to satisfy graduation requirements. The report, titled "No Graduation Without Indoctrination: The DEI Course Mandate," investigated 248 colleges from all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and found that 67% of the institutions reviewed
Fox BusinessApr 04 2024
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Nebraska Rejects Change to Its Electoral College Rules
Although there was support from three heavyweight Republicans in former President Donald Trump, Gov. Jim Pillen and Sen. Pete Ricketts, the Nebraska state legislature overwhelmingly declined to support a revised "winner-take-all" system in their electoral college rules Wednesday evening. Nebraska and Maine are the only two states who assign their electoral votes by Congressional district. In
Newsmax (News)Apr 13 2024
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They set out searching KC for a missing college student. They found a body, but no answers
The hunt for T’Montez Hurt, a 19-year-old college student from St. Louis who went missing in Kansas City in February, brought out fewer than a dozen volunteers Saturday, who spent the afternoon searching along Troost Avenue, combing the area for any sign of the missing student. It’s not the first weekend the group KC Discover organized such a search for Hunt, who hasn’t been heard from since a
The Kansas City StarApr 04 2024
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Nebraska Electoral College Change Blocked (For Now)
Nebraska legislators on Wednesday night blocked a late effort to change how the state allocates its Electoral College votes, despite public pressure from former President Donald Trump to shift to a winner-take-all system that would likely benefit him in the fall. The measure fell short, 8-36, in a procedural vote. While it’s possible supporters could take another stab at advancing the proposal
JoeMyGodApr 13 2024
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Boston College High alum turned to golf for direction and meaning through hardship
How golf helped keep Nate Ingram on course How golf helped keep Nate Ingram on course How golf helped keep Nate Ingram on course SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - University of Rhode Island student and Boston College High School alum Nate Ingram said golf has always been his passion, calling it his "north star" when he was struggling through life's hardships. "If I wasn't playing golf, I was thinking
CBS News (Online)Apr 13 2024
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Holyoke Community College to host culinary arts open house, tasting event
Holyoke - Holyoke Community College will host an open house and free community tasting event on Wednesday, April 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the HCC MGM Culinary Arts Institute, 164 Race St. Visitors will be able to tour the state-of-the-art kitchens at the college’s culinary arts facility, meet HCC culinary arts faculty and staff, learn about the college’s culinary arts certificate and associate
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