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Harvard Affirmative Action Decision Exposes Asian American Divide

The Harvard decision last week makes me cheer. And cry. It solves nothing. It only furthers an Asian American stereotype as well as expose a crack in the Asian American community.

Institutions Stepping Up to Serve Hispanic Students

As colleges and universities work to reach enrollment and college completion goals, increased focus has turned to the Hispanic populations in their communities.

Our Lady of the Lake University Receives $3M to Improve Postgraduate Programs for Hispanic Students

The United States Department of Education gifted $3 million to Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) to establish a postgraduate program aimed to help Hispanic students. Post-baccalaureate Opportunities Dedicated to Equity and Retention (PODER) project will focus on improving graduate student facilities and services on OLLU’s three campuses of San Antonio, Houston and the […]

Puerto Rico’s Higher Ed Institutions Show Resilience After 2017 Hurricanes

In September 2017, hurricanes Irma and Maria blasted through Puerto Rico and wrecked Inter American University’s campus in Arecibo and left many of its students displaced. Following the storms, student enrollment tumbled.

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New Research Journal Focuses on Gifted and High-Achieving Minority Groups

A newly launched peer-review journal is scheduled to publish in Spring 2020 and will examine achievement, creativity, and leadership among gifted and high-achieving minority populations across the P-20 continuum.

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Oprah Winfrey Pledges $1.15 Million to HBCU Students

At a United Negro College Fund event, Oprah Winfrey pledged to donate over a million dollars to help students attend historically Black colleges and universities, The Charlotte Observer reported. Winfrey made the pledge on Saturday while speaking at the 17th annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon in Charlotte, North Carolina. The United Negro College […]

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University of Georgia Moves to Name College of Education After Its First Black Graduate

University of Georgia’s presidential cabinet voted unanimously to name the school’s college of education after its first Black graduate, Mary Frances Early. The new name will now have to be approved by the Board of Regents. Early, 83, transferred to University of Georgia from University of Michigan in 1961. While she wasn’t the first Black […]

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Education Trust Addresses Black Student Debt Crisis at D.C. Briefing

There is a debt crisis among African-American students on college and university campuses. According to the college access nonprofit organization The Education Trust, Black borrowers have a 50-50 chance of defaulting on a federal loan within 12 years of entering college. Black borrowers are also over 150 percent more likely to default on a federal loan than their White peers.

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FUTURE Act Halted in Senate, Higher Education Organizations and Leaders Dismayed

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander is standing in the way of the passage of Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act. Alexander’s decision to stall the legislation means that $255 million of funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) will expire Sep. […]

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Superstar Mo’ne Davis ‘Just One of the Girls’ on Hampton’s Softball Team

Mo’ne Davis is perhaps the most unique college athlete ever. But at the same time the freshman middle infielder on the Hampton University women’s softball team is no different than any other college student, and that’s how she wants to be treated.

Start with How: Inhabiting our Public Roles for Effective Leadership

In his best-selling, 2009 book on leadership, Start with Why, Simon Sinek offered that the best leaders and organizations give their groups clear guidance regarding the importance of an undertaking, starting with the “why” of the action to be endeavored. Sinek likely never imagined a time and environment in national and international discourse when a necessary precursor to the thing itself (Sinek’s “why”) would need articulation.

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FUTURE Act Stalls in the U.S. Senate

Historically Black colleges and universities are growing nervous as federal funding for minority serving institutions – set to expire Sept. 30 – stalls in the United States Senate.

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