Elizabeth McCann/Staff Writer Last week, United States Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced new regulations to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. These new changes will affect how colleges and K-12 schools handle sexual assault allegations, investigations and cases. However, there are too many stipulations in the proposal that excuse universities of the […]
Ursula Muñoz/ Contributing Writer A couple of weeks ago, all of my professors decided to dump work on me at once. Overwhelmed, I spent a total of 20 hours at the library that weekend—ten on Saturday and ten on Sunday. When I FaceTimed my mother from the library at 11:45 p.m. to tell her what […]
Clara Barros/ Staff Writer Not all wars are loud and bloody. Some are silent. We can’t see them or smell them, but they’re potentially just as violent. Right under our noses, college education is being targeted. The right is effectively working to undermine it in several different ways: politically, ideologically and economically. How are they […]
Just a few months prior, FIU welcomed U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for a roundtable discussion on the current and future state of education, while just a few weeks ago, government officials from the U.S., Mexico and Central America met at the Modesto Maidique campus to discuss drug trafficking, gang violence, infrastructure and immigration. […]
Fabienne Fleurantin/ Staff Writer Imagine a bright child with a love for learning, driven by passion for what they love and a dream to be something more. Imagine that child being denied from attending the school of their choice because of who they are. The decision to give states the ability to set rules on […]
