Joyce JonesStudentsCollege Success Foundation Celebrates 10 Years of Helping StudentsThe College Success Foundation, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, released a report highlighting its success in preparing socially disadvantaged middle and high school students to enter college and graduate.June 9, 2010Faculty & StaffScholars Discuss How U.S. Higher Education Can Avoid DeclineHigher education is widely viewed as an American success story during the twentieth century, but now it’s facing a series of challenges that threaten that preeminence, said one expert at an American Enterprise Institute forum on reinventing the American university last week.June 6, 2010StudentsArizona State Forum: Fixing U.S. EducationTaking the uncommon step as a public flagship university to help stimulate the national conversation on education reform, Arizona State University convened a panel of education experts for a forum titled “Getting Back in the Race: Fixing American Education” this past Friday.June 6, 2010StudentsRecommendations for National K-12 Education Standards Target College ReadinessThe goal of Common Core State Standards is to ensure that every student graduates from high school prepared to attend a post-secondary institution or enter the workforce.June 2, 2010African-AmericanExperts Explore Black-White Divide in Youth EmploymentThe Urban Institute hosted a policy discussion Tuesday that examined the racial discrepancies in the time that it takes recent high school graduates and dropouts to connect to work or postsecondary learning opportunities.June 1, 2010African-AmericanGAO Again Recommends Better Oversight of Grants to Minority Serving InstitutionsSince 2004, the Government Accountability Office has been telling the U.S. Department of Education that it needs to improve the way it monitors and provides technical assistance to Title III and Title V grantees.May 27, 2010African-AmericanJoint Center Report Urges Research and Policy Changes to Boost the Involvement of Expectant FathersThe Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Commission on Paternal Involvement in Pregnancy Outcomes (CPIPO) has released a report on fathers’ influence on child health and development.May 20, 2010Leadership & PolicyThurgood Marshall Connection Invites Admiration, Criticism of Supreme Court NomineeWhile conservatives have criticized Elena Kagan’s relationship with the late justice, for whom she clerked in 1987 to 1988, some liberals and African-Americans have praised Kagan for her connection to the pioneering jurist.May 18, 2010Community CollegesEducation Secretary, Experts at DeVry Forum Assess U.S. College Completion ChallengeU.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, along with expert panelists, offered their perspectives on how best to achieve the Obama administration’s goal for attaining the world’s best educated workforce during a policy forum hosted by DeVry University.May 11, 2010African-AmericanScience Associations Publish Legal Handbook on Diversity StrategiesWomen and minorities in this country are woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). That’s very bad news for a nation undergoing a major demographic shift that by 2050 will make minorities the majority of the population.April 28, 2010Previous PagePage 6 of 7Next Page
