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Empathetic and community-focused, human services professionals support individuals and communities. Working in child protection, mental health, criminal justice, and community education, practitioners in these areas work to foster respectful and supportive environments for people from diverse backgrounds. If you seek a fulfilling professional path that encourages you to champion deeply held values like social justice and mental health advocacy, you could be a solid fit for human services. Given this field’s practical and emotional challenges, however, it is essential to know what is involved and whether you are up to the task. Read on to learn: What is a degree in…

The Trump administration has refused to issue a nonimmigrant student visa to a Babson College student whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrongfully deported to Honduras in November.   The administration was responding to district court judge Richard Stearns’s January order to find a “remedy” to ICE’s violation of a court order prohibiting Any Lopez Belloza’s deportation. In a court filing Friday, the DOJ said Stearns’s suggestion that Secretary of State Marco Rubio “exercise his considerable discretion” to grant Belloza a nonimmigrant student visa so she could continue her studies was “unfeasible.” “The secretary of State lacks the authority to adjudicate visa applications and issue visas, as such…

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Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: States and school districts can use Title II, Part A funds under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to support creating strategic staffing models, according to a Feb. 9 Dear Colleague letter from the U.S. Department of Education. Title I dollars may also be used for schoolwide programs, the letter said.  Strategic staffing is defined by the department as a team-based approach to instruction that replaces the traditional model of one teacher per classroom. Instead, the new model uses at…

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Defense plans to cut its academic relationship with Harvard University in yet another effort by the Trump administration to inflict pain on the Ivy League institution.  The department said it will discontinue fellowships, certificate programs and graduate-level professional military education for active duty military members at Harvard beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. It will allow current students to complete their studies. In a social media post about the decision Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “Harvard is woke; The War Department is not.” The department signaled that it would review similar relationships…

A dozen Columbia University students and faculty were arrested Thursday during a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s crackdown on immigration, The New York Times reported. Other publications, including the student newspaper, The Columbia Spectator, reported only that faculty and students were among the 12 people arrested. The protest, organized in part by a group of Columbia faculty and staff called CU Stands Up and the Columbia chapter of the climate activism organization the Sunrise Movement, drew about 150 people, many wearing shirts that read “Sanctuary Campus Now” and “ICE Off Campus.” The 12 were reportedly arrested after they…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Anita Moore-Hubbard “Butterfly Effect” Memorial Scholarship (Deadline: June 8, 2026) February 9, 2026 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: African American students from the state of Illinois. Must be a current High School Senior. Must have a minimum 3.0 cumulative unweighted GPA. Open to students with a commitment to community service or volunteering. Submission: To apply, tell us where you would like to go, how traveling would help you see the world differently, and what ancestors you would carry with you on your journey. Additionally, upload a letter of recommendation from a…

Shenandoah Conservatory welcomes Actors From The London Stage for a week-long residency that immerses students and the broader community in Shakespearean performance, voice and movement practice, and professional artistry. The residency features multiple performances of William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” including a newly added performance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14. The production showcases a dynamic staging in which the actors seamlessly inhabit multiple roles, transforming both themselves and the performance space to bring the pastoral comedy to life. In addition to the fully staged performances, the visiting artists will engage deeply with Shenandoah Conservatory students through a…

North Carolina State University fired the assistant director of its LGBTQ Pride Center on Friday after an anti-DEI activist group secretly recorded him appearing to violate system policies, according to The Raleigh News & Observer.  This is the fourth UNC system institution where an employee has been targeted by Accuracy in Media. The group posted videos of them allegedly subverting the system’s mandate to maintain “institutional neutrality” on issues related to social policies or political controversies. The employees who were secretly recorded by Accuracy in Media at the University of North Carolina campuses in Charlotte and Asheville and Western Carolina University no longer work at…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Thousands of educators flocked to picket lines Monday as United Educators of San Francisco began its first strike since 1979.  The 6,500-member union has been negotiating for nearly a year with San Francisco Unified School District, which has roughly 50,000 students. The district closed more than 100 schools on Monday as the union solidified a strike roughly a week after members approved a walkout in two rounds of voting. More than 250 principals, office clerks and custodians in two other unions also went on a…