Sarah LakeHomeDiversity Bill Aims to Curb School Violence in CaliforniaCalifornia Assemblyman Mike Eng, D-Monterey Park, chairman of the Select Committee on Hate Crimes, has proposed a bill that would allocate up to $150,000 to establish a pilot diversity and sensitivity curriculum for select California school districts, according to a Los Angeles Times article.February 21, 2008Native AmericansStudy Reveals Low Retention Rates for Nevada’s American Indian StudentsA study presented to the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents shows that only 57 percent of American Indian freshmen at Nevada colleges and universities continue on to their sophomore year, according to an article in University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s student newspaper, The Rebel Yell. The rest either transfer to an out-of-state […]February 19, 2008HBCUsMorgan State Audit May Lead to Criminal InvestigationAuditors’ findings that Morgan State University made up to $2.4 million in “questionable” and duplicate payments to Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. may lead the state attorney general to launch a criminal investigation into the matter, according to a Baltimore Sun report. The auditors, who work for the Maryland state legislature, found contract irregularities with Morgan State’s […]February 19, 2008Faculty & StaffStudents to Study University of Maryland’s Ties To SlaveryThe University of Maryland, College Park is the latest institution of higher education to announce plans to examine its ties to slavery, this time doing so with the help of students in a research course.February 19, 2008StudentsStudents Being Forced Out of Dorms Because of Poor GradesStudents attending State University of New York at Old Westbury may find themselves homeless and hungry if they don’t keep their grades up, according to a story in The New York Times. The college has recently began enforcing a 14-year-old policy that says any student with a cumulative grade point average lower than 2.0 will […]February 13, 2008HomeCalifornia College Students Fed Up with Rising Tuition, Advocating Tuition FreezeCalifornia college students are mobilizing to freeze tuition at the University of California and California State University for the next five years, according to an article in The San Diego Union-Tribune. Fees at these universities have been raised five of the past six years. According to the Union-Tribune article, students are paying $7,511 in tuition, […]February 12, 2008StudentsPaying For Grades Yields Mixed Results in Boosting Student AchievementAs public school districts struggle to boost student achievement, an increasing number of districts are turning to incentives for students, such as paying them cash money, to improve their attendance, test scores and grades.February 12, 2008SportsNew Policy In Effect to Increase Number of Minority Head College Football CoachesA new minority-interviewing rule, similar to the “Rooney Rule” currently used in the National Football League, is being implemented at all Division I-A football programs, in hopes of boosting the number of minority head coaches.February 10, 2008Leadership & PolicySan Jose State President Bans Campus Blood Drives as Part of Nondiscrimination PolicySan Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives in protest of a longstanding government policy that bars gays from donating blood and called the policy discriminatory, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.February 4, 2008SportsNCAA Gives Texas A&M $100,000 Grant to Study Diversity Practices in College AthleticsIn an effort to promote diversity in Division I athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has given Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport a $100,000 grant to identify colleges and universities that develop outstanding diversity practices in their athletic departments. Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport will use the grant to conduct research, […]January 30, 2008Previous PagePage 5 of 6Next Page
