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Texas Southern Released from Accreditation Probation

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges has released Texas Southern University from a probation that had been attached to the school’s accreditation status dating back to December 2007.

African-American

National Scholarship Program Rewards Academically Talented Black Students

The Ron Brown Scholars program provides financial and moral support for low-income yet high-achieving students of color with many attending elite institutions.

Ron Brown Scholars

Asian American Pacific Islander

Higher Education Summit on Asian and Pacific Americans Convened

More than 400 students, scholars and community leaders attended the daylong Washington summit, whose speakers included Kiran Ahuja, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Robert Teranishi

African-American

Grambling Selects New President

Grambling State University has a new president, and he’s a familiar face with decades of experience at public universities around the country. Dr. Frank Pogue will be the school’s eighth president, after the University of Louisiana System board unanimously agreed to the appointment Friday.

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.

Native Americans

American Indians Grow Wary of Genetics Research

In the wake of the Havasupai-Arizona State University genetics research dispute, some tribes have opted out of participating in genetics research projects.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Spreading the Word on Asian American Diversity

Kiran Ahuja, a former litigator and an alumnus of a historically Black college, leads the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Kiran Ahuja is the executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

African-American

Charlotte Morris Named as Tuskegee University Interim President

Dr. Charlotte P. Morris will become interim president of Tuskegee University, following the July 31, 2010 retirement of school president Dr. Benjamin F. Payton.

Dr. Frank Pogue

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.

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