Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies in his “hush money” trial in New York yesterday, making him the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime. On their second day of deliberations, the jury found that Trump illegally falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to an adult…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor’s overtime rule update is unlawful, several groups business groups told a federal court on May 22, asking a judge to block the regulation just weeks before its effective date. The…
As we approach appellate oral arguments in the history-making criminal case of Uber’s ex-CISO this summer, techies, lawyers, hackers, and investors should all be worried about cybersecurity. In 2016, Uber suffered a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers and over half a million drivers. In the first criminal prosecution of a chief information…
Dr. Mark Brown has been named the 10th president and chief executive officer at Tuskegee University. He succeeds Dr. Charlotte P. Morris. Dr. Mark Brown“I am grateful and humbled by the Board of Trustees, faculty, alumni, students, community leaders, and all of Mother Tuskegee for the opportunity to return home to lead our university into…
Every once in a while, you read something that makes you go “Ah, that’s why background checks are important!” A (thankfully) former Illinois prosecutor was fired not long after he was alleged to have made some pretty inflammatory posts on Twitter. Now, before you get all “cancel culture is our modern day scourge” over this,…
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and its Institute for Capacity Building explore the state of mental health on Black college campuses in a new report. Julian Thompson“From Awareness to Action: The Imperative for Enhanced Mental Health Support at HBCUs” highlights five key insights. The first is that 1.) HBCUs are not immune from the…
(Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. During one dinner at our house, she took me aside to express her annoyance at commentators who were calling for her retirement. ‘The timing of a resignation is up to each justice,’ she told me….
In the past year’s news cycle, we have seen university presidents arraigned before Congress and levels of student activism unseen in decades. Whether spun positively or negatively in media coverage, unfortunately such events are now the only types of public engagement some individuals and communities associate with universities. At a time when universities are under attack on multiple…
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the notion that the funding scheme for the Consumer Protection Finance Bureau (CFPB or Bureau)—a powerful regulatory agency created by Congress after the 2008 Financial Crisis to protect fair treatment of consumers—runs afoul of the so-called Appropriations Clause of Article I, section 9 of the Constitution….
It is undeniably true that a higher education institution with an efficient student management system in place runs like a well-oiled machine. It brings success in both the academic and administrative aspects of your institution. When integrated with other systems, Student Management Systems (SMS) straighten the difficult everyday processes like student enrollment, class scheduling, course…