Associated PressSportsGrad Rates for Black College Athletes IncreaseORLANDO Fla. Black college athletes are graduating at higher rates than in the past. The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) for Black athletes is 62 percent in 2009, up from 59 percent three years ago, according to a report released Monday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida. […]April 6, 2009HomeHispanic Students Lag in College AdmissionHispanic students in Texas are falling behind educationally, with high school graduation rates lower than average and college enrollment lagging that of Black and White students.April 6, 2009HealthOne in Five Preschoolers Obese, Rate Higher for MinoritiesA striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.April 6, 2009LGBTQ+Gainesville, Fla., Votes on Gay Discrimination BanVoters in this university city went to the polls Tuesday in an election that could strip the local government’s anti-discrimination protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.March 24, 2009StudentsNew Student Loans Require Payments While in SchoolThe running joke about student loans: Don’t ever graduate, since you don’t have to start paying them back until you do.March 23, 2009HomeUnemployment Hits Harder Among Latinos, BlacksLast hired, first fired: This generations-old cliché rings bitterly true for millions of America’s Latinos and Blacks, who are losing jobs at a faster rate than the general population during this punishing recession.March 23, 2009Leadership & PolicyMorris Brown Pays Water Bill, Still Has DebtMorris Brown has finally paid its $380,000 overdue water bill in full, a three-month effort against seemingly long odds as the historically Black college struggled for survival.March 22, 2009Leadership & PolicyMarian University President ResignsMarian University’s president has resigned, effective immediately.March 22, 2009African-AmericanBrown Moves Ahead With Plans for Slavery MemorialA Brown University commission has asked the school to create a memorial acknowledging its early ties to the slave trade, one that would inspire reconciliation, not resurrect shame.March 18, 2009Community CollegesFormer Rust College Chief Dies in AccidentHOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. _ The former president of Rust College has died in a weekend traffic accident in Holly Springs. Marshall County Coroner James Anderson says 89-year-old William A. McMillan died from injuries he sustained in a car wreck Saturday. Anderson says McMillan was transported to Alliance Medical Hospital where he died from head trauma […]March 16, 2009Previous PagePage 281 of 569Next Page
