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Cultivating cannabis: Higher ed’s influence on a billion-dollar industry

University Business

Federally, cannabis remains a Schedule 1 drug and illegal , adding complexity to educational initiatives. While the education itself is legal, institutions must safeguard students from the legal implications of a Schedule 1 drug. However, a word of caution to institutions eyeing cannabis education – legal scrutiny looms large.

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Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reverend Al Sharpton was among the many guests that Ogletree would invite to Saturday School across the years, and the two worked together with the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch to develop a program called Second Chance to help nonviolent drug offenders reintegrate into society.

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Does That Filipino Harvard joke in the New Yorker Sound the Death Knell for Affirmative Action?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I don’t mean Jia Tolentino on the weight loss drug Ozempic, but the assessment of one male Filipino American Harvard applicant, written on official Harvard admissions stationery. As we wait to see, did you hear the one about the Filipino in The New Yorker ? Magazine, that is. Livestreamed on Facebook ; my YouTube channel; and Twitter.

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The New Generation Gap

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At the same time, the sense of liberation that accompanied the sexual revolution and increased access to psychedelic drugs in the ‘60s has faded. Whether we’re talking about sex or drugs or political or cultural radicalism, we had opportunities that no one else has had. Most college-students today are post-traditional.

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How colleges are failing our students

University Business

To determine whether a new Alzheimer’s drug offers relief, a student needs to weigh the evidence available from experimental trials. According to a 2019 study from the Society for Human Resource Management, nearly two-thirds of employers surveyed indicated that it was difficult to find college grads with adequate critical thinking skills.

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Two from MIT named 2023 Marshall Scholars

CAPD

In the Langer Lab, Chae accelerated drug-screening procedures by training a machine-learning algorithm that helps identify podocyte-treating drugs. She has held leadership roles with the MIT Premedical Society, the MIT Pistol Team, and the MIT Borderline art mural project. Sihao Huang ’ 22.

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

Drug and alcohol abuse, sexual assault and other forms of violence and brutality are long-standing parts of the US higher ed landscape that have not been fully dealt with. Higher education in the United States has always reflected and reinforced larger (sick) society and its ills. Millions of folks are learning exclusively online.