As the climate crisis deepens, geoengineering options are in the air.  My question for today is: should academia support and advance geoengineering research, development, and deployment, or should higher education do its best to resist any such efforts? To explain: geoengineering in this context refers to artificial interventions into the total Earth system in order to reduce global warming.  There are many ways we can mount such projects.  Altering the

At a recent conference of tribal colleges, participants were given a map of a campus parking lot. Not a map of how to get to the parking lot, but rather a map of the parking lot itself, revealing the spots with the strongest Wi-Fi signal. Students, faculty and staff at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) across the nation have routinely converged on their local campus parking lots, with the glow

Dr. Nicole Pride After less than a year in office, Dr. Nicole Pride, the first female president of West Virginia State University (WVSU) resigned from her post effective immediately. More than half of Pride’s cabinet members recently called on WVSU’s Board of Governors to fire her amid allegations of a hostile work environment under her leadership. In an almost five-hour meeting on Friday afternoon, the Board of the historically Black

I’ve never been one to quit. Anything really. I mean sure, I quit pretending to be straight which caused me to quit my last marriage. I do, in fact, recognize that as a huge deal, but it took me 25 years to finally quit pretending to be straight. That’s the brut force of an ego that can’t stand to look weak if I ever saw one. I keep going and

Are you looking for strategies to help students who have trouble spelling words that do not conform ot spelling rules? If so, keep reading. 1. Provide the student with an app that provides the instruction on and practice on the art of spelling. 2. Create a list of regularly seen words that do not follow spelling rules for the learner to keep at their desk. 3. Get the learner to

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® in partnership with the Educational Advancement Foundation (EAF), has presented its third round of endowment funds in the amount of $1.6 million to 35 additional HBCUs as part of a four-year fundraising campaign led by AKA International President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Glenda Glover to help secure fiscal sustainability and success across all HBCUs. Dr. Glenda Glover “HBCUs have received tremendous media attention over the past several months

Academic vocabulary words for fifth graders are used in many subjects and even in everyday situations, but are be difficult to define; their definitions can change based on context. But they add nuance to writing and speaking. They often help shape tone, mood, or point of view. For example, skip or trudge would convey different feelings and emotions than walk. Having a large and broad academic vocabulary is critical to

High school graduates and college students often have to deal with the struggle of choosing their college major. You can map out your career and, in the end, feel more passionate about a different field. To make this decision easier for you, here are the experiences of 3 successful graduates.  Leo Manning  Leo Manning from La Salle University ended up changing his major three times, from one that his parents

This is quickly becoming no country for young peopleThe prime minister has touted “levelling up” as the overarching theme of his domestic policy agenda. But in no area is the hollowness of this commitment revealed more than in relation to children and young people. Throughout this pandemic, the government has disregarded the young. At almost every turn, it has failed to put in place adequate measures to reduce the impact

Companies will offer credit and price reductions in government push to boost vaccination ratesCheap taxi rides and discounts from the biggest takeaway companies are to be deployed by the government in a desperate effort to boost Covid vaccination rates among the young, amid growing legal and political pressure on Boris Johnson over the use of vaccine passports.With figures inside the cabinet concerned about the plans already in place to enforce