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DREAM Act Blocked in Senate

Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.

Curriculum Reform at UT-Galveston Medical School Yields Improved Minority Student Board Results

The UT Medical Branch at Galveston has developed an approach that faculty members say have had a remarkable effect on its students’ performance on the medical board exam.

Morehouse medical school president Dr. John E. Maupin, Jr.

College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion

Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.

With Dream Act Shelved, Immigrants Look to 2012

The undocumented immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012.

Keeping Latino Religion Scholars Faithful to the Classroom

The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hispanic Theological Initiative helps Latino doctoral students launch careers as religion scholars.

Garden State Abandons Minority Doctoral Program

New Jersey Legislature defunds the Minority Academic Careers program, making financing doctoral study a heavier burden for minority students.

Early College Planning Essential for Latino Student Success, Experts Say

To ensure better college access and success for Latino students from low-income backgrounds, institutions should help them put together college plans as early as the eighth grade, according to experts at two Washington-area education events.

Latina graduates

Immigrant Students Give Blood To Show Citizenship

As Congress gets closer to a possible vote on the DREAM Act, college-aged undocumented immigrants are literally shedding blood for the cause.

African-American

Experts Recommend Improved Strategies for Getting Minority Males into Graduate School

The Council of Graduate Schools’ annual conference that wrapped up in Washington, D.C., over the weekend focused on the challenges associated with positioning students to pursue more than just a bachelor’s degree.

Report: For-profit Schools Likened to Subprime Mortgage Lenders

The embattled for-profit college sector has taken another hit with the release of a new report that indicts the industry for preying on low-income and minority students in a way that will ultimately lead to a financial catastrophe like the subprime mortgage collapse of 2008.

Lone Latina Senator in Mass. Defends Tuition Plan

Massachusetts’ only Latina state senator defended a state proposal last week to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and accused critics of the plan of spreading “fiction.”

African-American

Perspectives: A Chat and a Tweet on Race

A new, substantive and sustained conversation about race is needed but should originate in college classrooms.

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