Dianne HayesLatinxProviding $100K Grants to Seven Black Colleges, Tom Joyner Foundation Encourages the Recruitment, Retention of Minority TeachersRecruiting, training and maintaining quality teachers is a national challenge…March 7, 2007StudentsNew College Access Campaign Teaches Students To ‘KnowHow2GO’With only 9 percent of low-income students completing college by age 24, compared to 75 percent of students from high-income families…February 7, 2007StudentsAP Classes – What’s Stopping Black Students?Black high school students are significantly underrepresented in AP courses that provide students with a jumpstart on college and serve as an early predictor of college success, according to The College Board’s “Advanced Placement Report to the Nation.” Experts say checking teacher bias and improving identification of qualified Black students can help.February 6, 2007Community CollegesNew College Access Campaign Teaches Students To “KnowHow2GO”With only 9 percent of low-income students completing college by age 24, compared to 75 percent from high-income families, a coalition of higher education advocates today will launch a new multi-media campaign to clear up misconceptions and show poor students that college is within their reach.January 16, 2007HomeAAMC Launches New Campaign To Increase Medical School DiversityThe Association of American Medical Colleges has launched a new marketing campaign to encourage an untapped…December 13, 2006StudentsMLA Report Calls for Tenure and Promotion ChangesNew demands for research productivity, shrinking humanities lists by academic publishers and fears about limited opportunities for junior scholars are among the factors that prompted a landmark study released today by the Modern Language Association of America.December 7, 2006HomeAAMC Launches Campaign To Increase Medical School DiversityThe Association of American Medical Colleges on Thursday launched a new marketing campaign designed to encourage more minorities to apply to medical school.November 16, 2006Leadership & PolicyACE Report Cites Enrollment Gains, Retention ProblemsThe college enrollment of Hispanic students jumped nearly 70 percent between 1993-2003…November 15, 2006Leadership & PolicyMaryland Faces University Desegregation FightA group of Morgan State students, alumni and civil rights activists say a lawsuit seems to be the only remedy…November 15, 2006Faculty & StaffWhen Academic Freedom and Corporate-sponsored Professorships CollideIn 2002, Dr. Jerome D. Williams, a leading expert in the area of multicultural advertising, accepted the Anheuser Busch/John E. Jacob Endowed Chair in Marketing at Howard University. But the job offer was rescinded, Williams says, because he’d written articles critical of minority-targeted alcohol marketing.November 9, 2006Previous PagePage 6 of 8Next Page
