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Graduation Study Finds Gains, Challenges for Latino Students

Latinos are making major strides in college completion although they continue to trail Whites, African-Americans and Asian Americans in several key areas, a new report says.

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CUNY Adjunct Professor Mae Ying Chen ‘Walks the Walk’

As one of 20 members of the unpaid panel advising the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Chen is working to connect Asian immigrants and others in need with agencies that can help them.

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Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis

In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH

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Julianne Malveaux To Step Down as Bennett College President in May

President of Bennett College since 2007, Malveaux announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as the school’s chief executive on May 6.

Julianne Malveaux

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Public University Association, NASA Host Minority Male STEM Symposium

Experts on Tuesday say success of higher education STEM programs targeting minority men may depend heavily on enhancing the promise of financial success in STEM employment.

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Commentary: Why Diversity Still Matters

If the Supreme Court bars the use of race in college admissions decisions, it threatens years of work by civil rights activists who fought to make campuses more integrated, diverse and just, a think tank analyst writes.

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FAMU Research Initiative to Focus on Hazing

Florida A&M University, in stepping up its efforts to demonstrate its seriousness about quelling hazing on campus over the long term, has established a $50,000 research fund for FAMU faculty to “study the nature and extent of hazing behaviors among campus organizations and groups.”

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Fisk University’s Hazel O’Leary to Continue Helping Fisk after Retirement

Fisk University president Hazel O’Leary said earlier this week that she plans to continue helping the financially embattled institution after her retirement, which is scheduled for the end of 2012.

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Cataloging the Pan-African Experience

A longtime collector of books and rare items by and about African-Americans, Charles L. Blockson donated an art and artifact collection to Temple University that helps students and teachers grasp the history of peoples of African descent.

Charles L. Blockson

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Officials Lead National African-American History and Culture Museum Groundbreaking

In a project hailed as a milestone in the nation’s history, President Obama joined celebrities, political luminaries and scholars Wednesday for the symbolic groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Civil Rights Veterans Teach the Movement

Robert Moses and Charles Cobb are among the 1960s civil rights activists who have made the transition to academia, helping students born in a different era understand how the freedom struggle transformed America.

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University of Pennsylvania Names W.E.B. DuBois Honorary Emeritus Professor

After barring W.E.B. DuBois as a young sociologist from a teaching job more than a century ago, the University of Pennsylvania has now granted the late scholar an honorary professorship.

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