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College Mentoring for Access and Persistence Program Gives Graduating High School Seniors a Boost

What started as a group of high school students who stopped by for pizza and soft drinks at a monthly meeting with mentors from the Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young has turned into the College MAP program’s first cohort of polished college-bound seniors.

College MAP program

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New Bill Targets College Access, Academic Success in Low-Income Areas

Education leaders in the U.S. Senate want to promote college success in low-income communities through a new “cradle-to-career” educational support program in the nation’s highest poverty neighborhoods.

Geoffrey Canada

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Symposium: National Intervention Urged for African-American Boys

A symposium titled “A Strong Start: Positioning Young Black Boys for Educational Success” focused on the critical nature of the first nine years of life and was sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund.

Marian Wright Edelman

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U.S., Foreign Higher Education Institutions Unite To Help Haiti

New consortium hopes to help Haitian universities recover and improve a year after earthquake.

Dr. Carole Berotte Joseph

Diversity Still Matters in Michigan

Five years since Proposition 2 dismantled Michigan’s race-based programs from state-funded institutions, schools still refuse to abandon diversity.

Affirmative action supporter

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Report: Low-Income Students “Priced-Out” of College

Of 1,186 colleges surveyed in a college affordability study, only five provide adequate financial support, the Education Trust organization reports.

CSU Fullerton students

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Black Music Month: The Beat Goes On

On June 7, 1979, President Jimmy Carter decreed that June would be Black Music Month, and all the United States presidents since then have acknowledged the month-long observance.

NCORE Conference: Scholar Offers Perspectives on Inter-Minority Racism

During the 24th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, educators examined not only race, gender, religion and sexual orientation, but intersections among them.

Leadership & Policy

NCORE Conference: College Presidents Share Impact of International Programs

Remarks by Howard University president Sidney Ribeau and other college presidents came Thursday in a symposium examining the internationalization of their institutions during the annual meeting of the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education.

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MSIs Seek To Defy Budget Trend By Lobbying for New Teacher Education Program

Under the proposal to Congress, a minority-serving college or university could obtain $500,000 a year for five years for enhancements to teacher education programs.

Augustus Hawkins

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Sickle Cell Treatment Clinic at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Answers Community Need

The disease affects about 1,000 people in Arkansas and new treatments have allowed those with the disease to live into their 50s, 60s or beyond, and the goal is to improve their quality of life.

Sickle cell testing

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Michigan State University Commemorates Half-Century Partnership With African Nations

Michigan State University’s African Studies Center celebrates its 50th anniversary, which now engages with more than 150 faculty specialists from 45 departments throughout the university, including nursing, medicine and engineering.

Dr. James Pritchett

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