An art show at an Alabama museum that was meant to feature the work of Troy University faculty members has been called off after the museum’s board deemed some of the images submitted by one of the artists to be offensive.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/museum-cancels-troy-u-faculty-art-show-over-concerns-about-offensive-images/54555?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Latino workers, demanding respect in a precarious job environment, helped boost the state’s unionized workforce by 100,000 in 2012.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-labor-20130124,0,795664.story
Women’s veterans groups applaud the change as long overdue. The reaction in Congress, which will review the move first, is mixed.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-combat-women-20130124,0,66796.story
As colleges continue to review — and tally — the thousands of applications that have poured into their admission offices this school year, a demographic milestone has cropped up in California.
Read more in The New York Times: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/latinos-university-california/
ATLANTA — As the nation works its way through the debate over vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public education funding, a quieter battle over homosexuality, religious education and school tax money is under way in Georgia.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/21/education/georgia-backed-scholarships-benefit-schools-barring-gays.html?ref=education
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Backed by two conservative groups, Stanford Law School has opened the nation’s only clinic devoted to religious liberty, an indication both of where the church-state debate has moved and of the growth in hands-on legal education.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/us/at-stanford-clinical-training-for-the-defense-of-religious-liberty.html?ref=education
WASHINGTON — Barack Hussein Obama ceremonially opened his second term on Monday with an assertive Inaugural Address that offered a robust articulation of modern liberalism in America, arguing that “preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.”
Read more in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/us/politics/obama-inauguration-draws-hundreds-of-thousands.html?ref=us&_r=0
The president calls for action on climate change and equal rights for gays, but offers few specifics. Those may be outlined in next month’s State of the Union address.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-inaug-obama-20130122,0,3578109.story
Doctors are having difficulty making a prognosis on Violet Ellen Phillips, a 67-year-old homeless woman set on fire while she slept on a bus bench in Van Nuys.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless-fire-20130120,0,3061779.story
The deaths of two homeless people as temperatures dropped into the 30s expedite ongoing efforts to improve services and care for a vulnerable segment of the community.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless-cold-20130120,0,243727.story