A box containing the college credit exams for about 200 high school students in Florida has gone missing. As a result, the students may have to retake the tests, which include International History and some General Paper courses commonly taken by students in ninth and tenth grades.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ summer program gave 107 college students the opportunity to intern over the summer at places like Warner Bros., Dolby Laboratories, HBO, IMAX, Universal Pictures, and AMC Networks. The program, which is in its second year, is designed to help increase diversity in the film industry.
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In a move that is a first among major medical schools in the U.S., New York University (NYU) is offering all its medical students free tuition. Currently, NYU has raised more than $450 million to fund this new tuition package, but the school estimates that it will need around $600 million to fund it in perpetuity.
Indiana University’s record-setting beginner class has left 109 students living in residence hall lounges instead of dorms. A spokesman for IU said this is only temporary and that the University hopes to have all of these students in dorm rooms by the end of the semester.
With the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow states across the nation to have legalized sports betting, schools are exploring the idea of requiring sports book operators to pay them a part of amounts wagered on their games. The American Gaming Association, however, is opposed to these “integrity fees.”
Applications for the 2018 Student Loan Debt Relief Tax Credit are currently being accepted in Maryland. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible provided they have at least $20,000 in student loan debt, as well as at least $5,000 in outstanding student loan debt remaining.
The University of Notre Dame, DePauw and Franklin, Hanover and Wabash, are among 22 private colleges and universities in Indiana whose presidents have signed a pubic letter calling for the General Assembly to pass a hate crimes law during the 2019 legislative session.
Illinois is taking a new approach to encourage high school students to attend in-state universities and colleges. By creating a new merit-based scholarship specifically for high school graduates, the state hopes to improve undergraduate enrollment at public universities, which fell more than 8 percent between 2011 and 2016.
A 7.3 earthquake hit Venezuela’s northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean on Tuesday, the largest to strike Venezuela since 1900. However, despite the magnitude of the quake, it caused little major damage, and so far no deaths have been reported.
Students are marching from Worcester City Hall in Massachusetts to the headquarters of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. This 50-mile march is to call for stricter gun control following recent school shootings and will end with a rally at the headquarters.
The University of Utah has reassigned a graduate assistant who was teaching a class at the school because of statements she made about bringing a concealed carry gun to class. The grad assistant stated that it “is absurd, antisocial, and frightening behavior,” and that if any of her students brought a concealed carry gun to class, she would force them to stand in a “3x3 taped square.”
Montclair State University is launching a new bachelor’s degree program for fall 2018. The new Medical Humanities program was founded to study the wide variety of questions pertaining to health and illness while also connecting the hard science of modern medicine with the healing powers of art.
Should states be allowed to use federal funds be used to purchase guns for schools? This is the question being considered by the Education Department. Democratic lawmakers and educators, however, are widely criticizing the possible plan with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calling the idea "one of the most egregious, short-sighted and dangerous executive branch abuses of our education system in modern history."
The Oklahoma Board of Education approved 916 emergency certificates for non-traditionally trained teachers. This increases the total number of approved certificates to 2,153 for the 2018-19 school year. The state’s superintendent of public instruction has said that Oklahoma is "now experiencing the full weight" of the teacher shortage.
