Doudly Elius was visiting America from Haiti during his Partners of the Americas Legislative Fellow program in 2013 when he developed a motor disability. “I struggled a lot to walk, to climb stairs, or even to raise myself up from a chair,” Elius said. Still, New Jersey, where he was stationed, was well-equipped to support his needs.
http://action.partners.net/page/m/275bbc9a/423540fa/37a373ef/19219b2a/834283836/VEsP/
Earlier this month, Canada’s Liberal Party displaced Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, swinging to power on a platform that included a promise to ease the route to citizenship for international students. Though the party hasn’t yet been officially sworn in, international education stakeholders are optimistic about what the change in leadership might bring for the sector.
http://thepienews.com/news/canada-new-pm-pledges-to-ease-citizenship-path-stakeholders-optimistic/
Eight years after the Virginia Tech massacre led to tighter security at colleges across the U.S., some schools make "active shooter" training mandatory for incoming students, while others offer little more than brief online guidance on what to do if there's a gunman on the loose, a review by The Associated Press finds.
http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:c16cf73e384d46deb5cdc7f80d5ef6da
The killing of nine people in an Oregon college is the 294th "mass shooting" in the US this year, according to one definition of such tragedies.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As colleges wrestle with how to address sexual assault, a legal challenge involving a small Vermont institution brings an obscure part of the equation to the fore: how to report, investigate and punish sexual assaults that happen in overseas-study programs.
The higher education community needs better definitions and measures for what constitutes “success” for military-connected students. That is one of the conclusions highlighted in Military-Connected Undergraduates: The Current State of Research and Future Work, a summary of an April 2015 convening hosted by ACE and NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) only constitute 12 percent of all U.S. colleges and universities, but they educate 60 percent of enrolled Latino students in higher education. HSIs are defined by the U.S. Department of Education generally as “accredited, degree-granting, public or private, nonprofit colleges and universities with 25 percent or more total undergraduate Hispanic full-time enrollment.”
ACE hosted the 13 members of the 2015-17 Internationalization Laboratoryat a kick-off meeting in Washington, DC, on Aug.
Two leading private universities in Latin America have announced an exchange initiative for low-income students who qualify for their merit-based scholarship (becas) programmes.
Leaders of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) in Mexico and the Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES) in Colombia this month said the exchange is the beginning of a community of future leaders in the region.
http://thepienews.com/news/mexico-colombia-to-exchange-becas-students/
Sergio Alcocer Martínez de Castro renunció ayer a la Subsecretaría para América del Norte de la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) para contender por la rectoría de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) para el periodo 2015-2019.