higher education

Cal State East Bay is offering a new educational program to train people to be leaders in the cannabis industry. The university is the first school in the California State University system to offer the strictly online cannabis certificate…
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Five years ago, California embarked on an ambitious plan to bring computer science to all K-12 students, bolstering the state economy and opening doors to promising careers — especially for low-income students and students of color.…
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Elaine S. Povich | Stateline.org (TNS) Jaqueline Yalda, who has been a campus police officer at El Paso Community College in Texas for a decade, sought a promotion earlier this year. But first, the department required her to complete a…
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CUPERTINO — De Anza College is the latest Bay Area institution where students, faculty and community members are pushing for a name change to honor indigenous people who were harmed and pushed out by Spanish colonizers several centuries…
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN New York  — The Anti-Defamation League sent an open letter to more 200 colleges and universities Wednesday, urging administrators to investigate campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine for allegedly…
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SANTA CRUZ — Hundreds of UC Santa Cruz students gathered Wednesday at the Quarry Plaza on the UCSC campus to demand the university divestment from weapons manufacturers and an end to U.S. support for Israel in the latest war between Israel…
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Saratoga students are top debaters Two Saratoga High School students were among the 4% of students from across the country who qualified for the 2023 National Speech and Debate Tournament held in Phoenix, AZ in June. Junior Kinnera Potluri…
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They seemed destined to die in prison, but two men serving life sentences were set free because the daughter of a Laguna Beach lawyer needed a driving lesson. When attorney Annee Della Donna hired driving instructor Daniel Mulrenin, she was…
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By Nikki Carvajal and Katie Lobosco | CNN The Biden administration has approved debt relief for an additional 125,000 student loan borrowers, totaling $9 billion in forgiveness, the White House said Wednesday. The announcement comes just…
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