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Affirmative Action Advocates Consider Recession’s Impact on Diversity

At a national meeting of affirmative action advocates, higher education and corporate officials agreed that institutions of all types must be proactive to prevent the faltering economy from overly impacting one or more underrepresented groups.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Advocates Work To Develop Asian Pacific American-serving Higher Education Sector

Eight institutions have obtained the federal designation of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution, a new category that recognizes schools where 10 percent or more of the student body are Asian American or Pacific Islander.

Assessing Arizona

Three Mexican-American scholars discuss Arizona’s immigration law and its ramifications on the state’s colleges and universities.

Immigration reform and DREAM Act rally in Washington, D.C. (photo by Arelis Hernandez)

Officials: Harvard Student Will Not Be Deported

An undocumented Harvard University student is no longer facing deportation to Mexico after being detained nearly two weeks ago by immigration authorities at a Texas airport.

Georgia Colleges Working To Verify Students’ Status

Georgia’s 35 colleges and universities are working to carry out a mandate from their governing body and verify the citizenship status of nearly 316,000 students by mid-August.

Faculty & Staff

New Initiative To Examine Equity of College-access Programs

A new Kresge Foundation-funded research effort launching this summer will better equip teachers and administrators at two Boston high schools in getting their students prepared for college.

African-American

Policy Summit Tackles Changing U.S. Demographics

During a National Journal policy summit on demographics and the workforce of the future, it was pointed out that 65 percent of the population is White, compared to 70 percent in 2000 and 80 percent in 1980. Generation Y, aged 30 and under, is two-fifths non-White.

Panelists Jane West, Martin Gould, and Sally Scott

Higher Education Organizations Form Coalition to Seek DREAM Act Passage

The Hispanic Association of Colleges Universities (HACU) has taken the lead in uniting 25 national higher education organizations in an effort to help bring DREAM Act legislation to final votes before Congress’ August recess.

Immigration reform and DREAM Act rally in Washington, D.C. (photo by Arelis Hernandez)

Study: Majority of Institutions Receive Applications from Undocumented Students

In a survey released today, the National Association of College Admission Counseling reports that 60 percent of surveyed schools indicated that they had received college applications from undocumented students.

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Says Research Universities Not Serious About Faculty Diversity

To Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, director for diversity education and assessment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, there’s no delicate way of describing the lack of commitment she believes many top research universities demonstrate as they allegedly seek to diversify their faculties.

M. Cookie Newsom

African-American

Taking Diversity to the Next Level

With expanded management and planning responsibilities, high-ranking chief diversity officers are heading their institutions’ comprehensive approach to inclusiveness.

Shirley J. Wilcher is the executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action.

African-American

Purdue Report Notes University’s Lack of Diversity

Purdue University needs to become more affordable and create additional programs to retain students to improve its campus diversity, the school’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion says in a report.

Christine Taylor

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