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HEA Bill Passes, Despite White House Objection Over MSI Funding

The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a Higher Education Act bill even as the White House criticized some of its provisions, including two to boost support for minority-serving institutions.

President’s Budget ‘Shortchanges’ MSIs

Minority-serving colleges and universities would lose some of last year’s hard-fought funding gains under President Bush’s proposed education budget plan for next year.

Spellings in Alabama, Announces Plan for Reading Program Increase

MONTGOMERY Ala. Educators, legislators and state officials met with U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Friday for a round-table discussion about No Child Left Behind that was at turns critical and complimentary, but always candid. “I thought it was stimulating conversation. I think it was straight from the heart and from professional people who are in […]

Pancho, College Bound: Chicano Creator’s Debut Film About University Life is Already a Winner

Recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau state that of the 16.6 million college students enrolled in colleges across country in 2003, 10 percent were Hispanic. Of those 1.6 million Hispanic students, at least one is a student like Pancho, very poor but determined; excited about going to college but unsure of its expectations.

Just the Stats: U.S. Behind in College Degrees

The United States is quickly falling behind other industrialized nations in terms of adults who hold a college degree, and minority groups are the least likely to attain that level of education, according to a recent report released by higher-education groups examining a state-by state analysis on access and equal opportunity for postsecondary education.

Study: Hispanic Freshman Want ‘Helicopter Parents’

The conventional wisdom has it that so-called helicopter parents are annoying their children by hovering over their every move as they apply to college. But it turns out most freshmen are happy with how involved mom and dad were during their college search.

Mexican-American Helps Minnesota Minorities Win Chance at College

MINNEAPOLIS Back in Elgin, Ill., Jennifer Godinez’s childhood home was a popular gathering spot for the neighborhood kids.

Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand on The DREAM Act?

As the presidential race heats up, a segment of the non-voting population as well as voters on both sides of the debate to help undocumented students access college will be watching to see where the candidates stand on the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act).

Transformations Through

In a day when top radio show hosts hurl sexist and racist remarks at women college athletes and White college students don Afro wigs and gold teeth at parties, it is clear that many are in need of diversity training.

2008 Budget: A Mix of Winners and Losers

Controversial Upward Bound experiment halted, and some MSIs win in earmarks.

Encouraging The Discouraged

An HSI, Heritage University serves a population that most other institutions have essentially written off as nothing more than farm laborers and service workers.

Latina Wins 2007 Rona Jaffe Award

Alma García says she has always wanted to be writer. “I was one of those peculiar seven-year-olds who, when asked, ‘What are you doing?’ I would frequently answer, Oh, just writing a book.”

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