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Dive Brief: Christian Brothers University plans to cut 16 full-time faculty positions at the end of its spring semester as it tries to balance its “operating budget and position CBU for transformation,” Interim President Chris Englert said in a public message this week. Englert specifically noted the Catholic nonprofit was not eliminating any academic programs and “students will be able to complete their declared majors with minimal disruption.” Earlier this month, the Tennessee university announced that its accreditor had lifted its probationary status after two years after it made major cuts to reduce its deficit. Dive Insight: Christian Brothers has…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / 2026 Virginia Jeanette Drummond Kissane Women in STEM Memorial Scholarship (Deadline: April 14, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: The Matriarch of our family valued STEM education for young women. Virginia Jeanette Drummond Kissane taught for over thirty years, mostly at an all-girls high school. In her time there, she taught STEM subjects such as Chemistry, Biology, and Mathematics. She was passionate about the role of women in STEM and was an avid encourager of young women who sought to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and…

It was some­thing of a Christ­mas rit­u­al at Hunter S. Thomp­son’s Col­orado cab­in, Owl Farm. Every year, his sec­re­tary Deb­o­rah Fuller would take down the Christ­mas tree and leave it on the front porch rather than dis­pose of it entire­ly. That’s because Hunter, more often than not, want­ed to set it on fire. In 1990, Sam Allis, a writer for the then for­mi­da­ble TIME mag­a­zine, vis­it­ed Thomp­son’s home and watched the fiery tra­di­tion unfold. He wrote: I gave up on the inter­view and start­ed wor­ry­ing about my life when Hunter Thomp­son squirt­ed two cans of fire starter on the Christ­mas…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The majority of college-bound high school seniors — 80%  — either strongly or somewhat want to attend a college that “supports students of all races and ethnicities,” according to a recent poll that examines student views and beliefs concerning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programming in higher education.  The poll — conducted by Art & Science Group, a Baltimore-based consulting firm — surveyed about 1,500 high school seniors in May through July.  Of those who were college-bound, it found that 61%…

Cate Bouvet, The Daily Northwestern Katherine Sloman (SESP ’10) said she used to call herself a proud alum; she wore her Northwestern purple everywhere, watched all the football games and…

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on January 27, 2025 © Magna Publications. All rights reserved. Learn more about The Teaching Professor here. Over the past several years, I have had the deep privilege of participating in The Way of Remembering (WOR), a spiritually grounded journey to Benin that looks at intergenerational trauma and healing through the lens of African ways of knowing. Benin is a beautiful country and is the birthplace of Vodún (commonly called Voodoo). It is also home to strong oral traditions and healing practices that focus on community connections. As a site deeply scarred by the transatlantic slave trade,…

by Meredith Kolodner, The Hechinger Report December 19, 2025 LUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out.  A Black high school football player was called a “b—h-ass” n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said. A Black 12-year-old boy, falsely accused last December of touching a white girl’s breast, was threatened and interrogated by a police officer at school without his parents and sentenced to a disciplinary alternative school for a month, his grandfather recounted. A Black honors…

You are here: Home / Scholarships / 2026 EJS Foundation Minority Scholarship (Deadline: May 1, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Minority students are often placed at a disadvantage when it comes to pursuing higher education. The wealth gap often means that minority students do not have the financial resources necessary to finance their college education, forcing many to turn to student loans in order to pursue their educational goals. These loans and their high interest rates trap many students in cycles of debt, holding them back from saving for retirement, buying homes, and…

Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher EdIt It will damage more than just universities.

You are here: Home / Scholarships / Fuiava Engineering Scholarship (Deadline: April 20, 2026) December 18, 2025 By The FinancialAidFinder Scholarship Team Who Can Apply: Engineering is an incredibly powerful field that can be used to build a better world and to create real solutions to life’s problems. Engineering offers many incredible opportunities for one’s career, but these benefits are locked away behind years of education, which comes at no small expense. When higher education is financially inaccessible, bright students lose out on their professional futures. This scholarship seeks to support Samoan students who are ready to take on the…