Associated PressStudentsCommunity Colleges Take Another Look At Sex Offender PoliciesSEATTLE Sex offenders who want to go to college in Washington have been required to share their criminal past with campus officials since 1998, but recent high profile news stories and increasing enrollments have some colleges reassessing their notification policy.July 25, 2006HomeEarly College Program to Give At-Risk Students Taste of Higher EdStarting this fall, about 55 seventh-graders from central Georgia will be attending Early College, part of a statewide program that aims to give students who aren’t on track for higher education a taste of college life.July 25, 2006Faculty & StaffHighlands University Regents Vote To End Manny Aragon’s Tenure As PresidentFormer legislative leader Manny Aragon’s tenure as president of New Mexico Highlands University ended over the weekend, as the school’s board of regents approved a contract buyout that will pay him $200,000.July 23, 2006African-AmericanProject Aims To Identify Blacks Who Fought In U.S. Revolutionary WarThousands of Black men fought in George Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books.July 23, 2006Leadership & PolicySchools Juggle Holidays For Muslims, Other FaithsSikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu and Christian — each faith has its holy days. Schools across the country are asking how to respect them all.July 23, 2006StudentsImpact of Race-neutral Admission At UC To Be StudiedThe University of California’s Board of Regents agreed this week to study how the 10-campus system’s admissions and enrollment have changed in the decade since voters passed a law barring consideration of race and gender in public education.July 20, 2006StudentsProgram Prepares Disabled For CollegeThe college classroom scene is a familiar one: young adults in flip-flops and baseball caps, some scribbling notes, others napping. Evelyn Scruggs, a student sitting near the front, is among the more attentive, filling an entire page with notes. But, by the time she leaves, she likely won’t remember the lecture topic or one word she wrote.July 18, 2006SportsBobby Bonds Symposium To Be Held To Increase Blacks in BaseballOrganizers hope the third annual Bobby Bonds Memorial Symposium will help reverse the declining number of Blacks playing baseball at all levels. They also know that the job gets more difficult with every negative headline involving Bobby’s son, Barry.July 17, 2006HBCUsUW-Madison Will Allow Controversial Instructor to TeachAn instructor at the University of Wisconsin who has said he believes U.S. officials orchestrated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will be allowed to teach a course on Islam, the school said last week.July 16, 2006HomeEx-SC Gov. McNair takes responsibility for Orangeburg MassacreCOLUMBIA, S.C. Former South Carolina Gov. Robert E. McNair has broken his silence and taken responsibility for the Orangeburg Massacre. For decades, McNair has refused to talk about the deaths of three Black students, shot at South Carolina State University by state troopers in February 1968. McNair sent the National Guard and troopers to campus […]July 16, 2006Previous PagePage 509 of 569Next Page
