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John King, former U.S. education secretary, named next SUNY chancellor
ALBANY, N.Y. — John King, the former New York education commissioner and U.S. education secretary, was named State University of New York chancellor Monday, taking over the largest public university system in the nation. King was unanimously selected to head the 64-campus system by the SUNY Board of Trustees, concluding a yearlong, nationwide search that…
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Black Owner of a Liquor Brand Launched to Great Acclaim Then Lost It All — Here’s How He Made a Multi-Million-Dollar Comeback
Disclaimer: This story has been republished with permission from Entrepreneur.com. Jackie Summers, founder of Jack From Brooklyn, Inc. and its widely acclaimed Sorel Liqueur, knows what it takes to make a comeback. Summers says he was the only licensed Black distiller in the U.S. post-Prohibition in 2012, and when he launched his hibiscus-based liqueur that year, he…
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Report: Test-Optional Policies Result in Increased Student Diversity
Test-optional admission policies have resulted in increased application numbers and student diversity at many business schools, according to a recent report by the MBA Roundtable and Wiley. Jeff Bieganek “Test-Optional Admission Policies and The Impact on Graduate Management Education,” surveyed and collected the input of 116 deans, directors, faculty, and staff at 107 graduate business schools…
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The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2022 | Edutopia
This past year didn’t feel normal, exactly, but compared with the last few trips around the sun, well—it sufficed. In 2021, when we sat down to write our annual edition of the research highlights, we were in the throes of postpandemic recovery and wrote about the impact of a grueling year in which burnout and…
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WATCH – Jill Biden: Hispanic Community is ‘as Unique as Breakfast Tacos’
First Lady Jill Biden butchered the pronunciation of “bodega” and asserted that the Hispanic community is “as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio” while speaking at the Latinx IncluXion Luncheon in the Texas city Monday. Biden’s remarks at the luncheon were part of the three-day UnidosUS annual conference in San Antonio, which…
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Census Data Paints America’s Majority a Minority by 2043
The New York Times printed what the Census Bureau’s latest data showed America in 2043. The Bureau said that the plurality of America would come a year sooner than previously expected
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America’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2022
America’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2022 It will not surprise anyone who is at least partially awake that, nearly three years after COVID-19 hit our shores, the workplace is an unpredictable place. As Newsweek’s 2022 list of Most Loved Companies shows, in this environment, against the backdrop of the Great Resignation and quiet quitting, the…
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Education Freedom Wins Big in Arizona
Arizona came closer to the important goal of separating education and state with the defeat of a ballot challenge to a recently adopted school-choice law. In June, the state legislature voted to allow education funding to be used for whatever learning path best suits individual children, not just to support government-run institutions that fail to…
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Unemployment and African Americans – Blacks need Jobs
African Americans consist of over 41.4 million in the United States. They being the second largest minority have employed themselves mostly in management, science, sales, business and arts occupations. It was found that black women are more into these sectors as compared to black men. With all these facts we discovered that still black Americans…
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Wisconsin’s 46 Most Influential Latino Leaders, Part 4
This is the fourth in a five-part series. Part One is here, Part Two is here and Part Three is here. Dr. Amanda Garcia is a paleobiologist and staff scientist on a NASA astrobiology team at the University of Wisconsin called MUSE (Metal Utilization and Selection across Eons). MUSE is centered on understanding the early coevolution…