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Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color

If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.

Report Highlights MSIs as ‘Engines of Upward Mobility’

A new report this week from the American Council on Education affirms what those familiar with minority serving institutions (MSIs) know to be true of the institutions’ significant role in bolstering the economic mobility of low-income students.

Southwest Arkansas Schools Courting Hispanic Students

Holding an ESL course at a local chicken processing plant, diversity celebrations, connecting with student families and Spanish-speaking campus tour guides are just some of the ways universities in an area like Southwest Arkansas reach the local Hispanic population.

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HSI Increases Reflect Growing Student Enrollment, Matriculation

New data analysis about Hispanic Serving Institutions from Excelencia in Education and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities reveals that such institutions are on the rise around the country, including in less-expected states such as Connecticut, Oregon and Tennessee.

Growing Roses in White Concrete

As an academic, I am constantly traveling to present at conferences, network and create change in communities. The one question I am always asked is, “Where are you from?” My response is Salt Lake City, Utah. It is my home, and not the answer people expect to hear.

Study Tackles Issues of Latino College Access, Completion

A study by UnidosUS in collaboration with the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlights challenges of college access, affordability and long-term success for Latino students.

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Forum Advocates for Enhanced Hispanic Higher Education Legislation

WASHINGTON — The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities convened educators and thought leaders from Hispanic Serving Institutions to advance the organization’s legislative agenda during the 23rd Annual National Capitol Forum on Hispanic Higher Education.

VSU Joins Verizon STEM Initiative For Boys of Color

PETERSBURG, VA. – Virginia State University will be among 24 schools in a program that offers minority males from middle schools in Petersburg, Hopewell and Dinwiddie summer intensive courses in science, technology, engineering and math. The Verizon Innovative Learning program, the education initiative of the Verizon Foundation, works with historically Black colleges and universities and […]

Stellar Academic and Business Leader Tapped to Lead Whittier College

Dr. Linda Oubré will become Whittier College’s 15th president, taking office July 1, 2018, college officials announced this week. She will be the first person of color to serve as president in Whittier’s 131-year history.

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Study Reports Wide Gender Disparity Among MSI Presidents

A new report from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions explores the dearth of women in presidential positions at Minority Serving Institutions. At 650 such schools, less than 12 percent of presidents are women.

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Recruitment Changes Needed to Expand Access to Higher Ed

Admissions policies in higher-ranking universities and colleges favor high-achieving applicants. While much has been written about access, affordability, diversity and student loans, the focus on GPA, aptitude tests and the reputation-enhancing concept of “selectivity” has negatively impacted minorities and underprivileged applicants.

Program Preps Latinx Students for Professoriate in Humanities

The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions recently held its inaugural Cross-Institutional Conference for the HSI Pathways to the Professoriate Program, a $5.1-million grant initiative sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that aims to diversify the professoriate by supporting 90 students at three Hispanic Serving Institutions as they prepare to apply and matriculate into doctoral programs in the humanities.

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