Early in October, President Obama announced his intent to nominate Peter A. Prahar to be the US Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.The United States Senate unanimously confirmed the appointment on November 20th.The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is an island nation in the central Pacific with...

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A mere 10 percent of Micronesians who enroll in the nation's community college system actually graduate.The figure was released in the "IPEDS Data Feedback Report," complied by the College of Micronesia (COM) for the United States based National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It measures the number of...

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Amelia Weiss sits with boxes of donated books headed for the Outer Islands of Micronesia. Amelia, now a freshman at Cal Berkeley, began to gather materials for under-resourced schools in the Central Pacific after a visit to the Islands of Palau and Yap. She teamed up with other...

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