US: SEMINARIES PARTNER WITH PRISONS TO OFFER INMATES NEW LIVES AS MINISTERS
YONAT SHIMRON, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how US evangelical schools such as Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary offer inmates a free, on-site college degree if they promise they’ll minister to other inmates once they graduate…
Hunger on campus: researchers say a quarter of US college students went hungry
Thomson Reuters Foundation About a quarter of students at 66 tertiary institutions in the United States said they had gone hungry in the previous month, researchers said on Tuesday. Experts said the findings, which are from the largest survey to measure hunger on campuses, confirmed concerns over poverty’s prevalence at universities and colleges. Jed Richardson, a scientist […]