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HBCU Leaders Consider Partnerships Key to Remaining Competitive in Online Era

Creating partnerships to link students across campuses and offering online academic programs to students were two of the solutions presidents of some of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities say will help keep their institution competitive as more options for higher education emerge.

Dr. Sidney Ribeau

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Black College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education Legislation

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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The Black College and Globalization

America’s Black colleges want to internationalize their campuses and send their students abroad, but inadequate access to resources keeps many of these institutions restricted to U.S. shores, according to a 2005 study by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) organization. On Thursday, NAFEO sponsored an International Day during its annual national conference in Washington to match international organizations and their programs with Black colleges and universities.

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Report: Low Hispanic College Completion Rates Endanger U.S. Attainment Goals

Hispanic college students generally graduate at lower rates than their White peers, even among schools with similar admissions standards, according to an American Enterprise Institute study.

Students honored during La Celebración Latina, a celebratory program that highlights Latino graduates at the University of Michigan

Opinion: The Proposed NSF Broadening Participation Budget—A Lingering Odor

In congressional testimony, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden Bement voiced support for the Obama administration’s 8-percent increase in the NSF FY 2011 budget to $7.42 billion. The words were earnest, but, for communities supported by the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, the increase smells of a skunk.

Dr. Daryl E. Chubin is director of the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Tulane University Institute Finds Racial Divide Over Post-Katrina Public School Changes

In survey of New Orleans residents, the university’s Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives found that a higher percentage of White voters (80 percent) than Black voters (57 percent) believe the state made the right decision in taking over most public schools in the city.

New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu has named a 21-member task force to help him navigate local education issues.

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Prostate Cancer Screening Debate Explored at HBCU Symposium

Students, faculty and researchers from colleges and universities around the country gathered at Clark Atlanta University Monday to hear from some of the nation’s most renowned experts on prostate cancer.

Obama’s Education Law Overhaul To Focus on College

The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor’s No Child Left Behind education law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of U.S. schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

Daniel Domenech

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Temple University Benefactor Donates Harriet Tubman Items to Smithsonian

Tourists will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman when an African-American history museum opens on the National Mall. This week, historian Charles L. Blockson donated about 40 objects from Tubman’s life to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

From left, Lonnie Bunch, African American History Museum director; Rep. Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.); and donor Charles L. Blockson

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Obama Proposal Seeks to Consolidate Minority Undergraduate STEM Programs

Weighing a new approach for assisting minority college students in the sciences, the Obama administration has proposed the National Science Foundation consolidate major initiatives that target specific racial and ethnic groups for participation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines into a single program.

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Minority Births on Track to Outnumber White Births

Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

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Preserving a Native Language and Culture

With the Myaamia Project at Miami University, the Miami Tribe seeks to rediscover its language and culture.

Myaamia Project Director Daryl Baldwin

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