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Leadership & Policy
Historically Black Concordia College-Selma Regains Favorable Accreditation Status
Last month’s reaccreditation announcement capped what many involved described as a gut-wrenching three years of uncertainty at Concordia, a small Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod supported college in the middle of Alabama’s Baptist dominated Black Belt.
Students
A Tribal College’s Bold Approach to Launching Public School Academies, Charter Schools
Established throughout Michigan by the Bay Mills Community College, public school academies preserve Native culture and language with commitment to increasing student achievement.
Latinx
Kellogg Foundation Pursues College Access Agenda
Tribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions are among beneficiaries of the foundation’s diversity-related efforts in U.S. higher education.
Leadership & Policy
Audit Says $1 Million Diverted from North Carolina Central University Program
The ex-director of a program based at N.C. Central University designed to reduce the achievement gap appears to have skimmed more than $1 million in program funds and used nearly $290,000 for her personal use, according to a state audit Tuesday that referred the case to prosecutors.
Asian American Pacific Islander
Commentary: Advancing the Race Conversation – Chinese Man vs. Model Minority
At this year’s National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, two very different images of Asian-American males were on display, a noted journalist writes.
Latinx
Obama Administration Officials Take High Profile at Senate Hearing on DREAM Act
A congressional hearing on Tuesday breathed new life into the decade-old and oft-thwarted effort to pass the proposed federal DREAM Act, but Democratic leaders concede there is no clear path to enactment and that one of the main obstacles is lack of Republican support.
Native Americans
Drawing From the Same Well
Caltech admissions director uses his American Indian roots to attract Native students to the elite school.
Students
Scholarship Fund Group Seeks Increased Support for Asian American-focused Minority-Serving Schools
Forthcoming report urges that resources should be targeted to Minority-Serving Institutions with high concentration of low-income students from the often “overlooked and underserved” groups of Asian and Pacific Islander students.
Latinx
Hispanic, White Achievement Gap as Wide as in 1990s
The achievement gap between Hispanic and White students is the same as it was in the early 1990s, despite two decades of accountability reforms, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education.
Students
Oprah Winfrey Receives South African University Honorary Doctorate
Oprah Winfrey accepted an honorary degree from a central South African university infamous for troubled race relations, saying the institution had turned an ugly experience into a model for confronting the challenges of reconciliation and remorse.
Students
Former Executive Neil Horikoshi Adds Capacity to Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
Having spent two and a half years as president of the nation’s largest nonprofit organization devoted to giving scholarships to college-goers of Asian descent, Horikoshi has emerged as a national advocate for postsecondary access and equity for that population.
African-American
Accrediting Agency Rejects Fisk University Financial Plan
Financially troubled Fisk University was dealt another setback Thursday in its efforts to remain a significant player in higher education when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools rejected the Nashville university’s financial update.
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