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Racist Incidents, Protests Spread at UC Campuses

A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance.

Alliance of 17 States Seeks To Boost College Completion Rates

More than a dozen states have formed an alliance to battle dismal college completion rates and figure out how to get more students to follow through and earn their diplomas.

Road to the Battle

Despite financial difficulties, the Virginia State University Trojan Explosion Marching Band cranks it up as they prepare for their trip to the ultimate HBCU showcase, the Honda Battle of the Bands. Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be the best musical ensemble in the country–heart, dedication, and lots of practice.

Online Debate Rages Over White Team’s Step Competition Win

A white Arkansas sorority team’s win in an Atlanta step competition has stirred a fiery debate over the African-inspired tradition and whether the integration of a once-ethnically-exclusive activity constitutes a form of cultural theft.

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Obama Signs Black College Executive Order

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order strengthening the long-standing White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

HBCU Executive Order Signing

UT-Austin Professor Works To Close Latino Gender Gap in Higher Ed

Dr. Victor Saenz, an assistant professor of higher education administration at The University of Texas at Austin, has been at the forefront of the Latino male student achievement issue and on a crusade to move policymakers to action before it’s too late.

Ex-Obama Adviser Will Become Princeton Fellow

President Barack Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser will teach at Princeton University.

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Black History Month Special: Oberlin’s Celebrated, But Difficult History

In his new book, the Oberlin emeritus archivist and professor of history talks about how his book painstakingly unravels clues of how the college faced the challenges of establishing a racially and culturally diverse institution from 1835 up to 2007.

Dr. Roland M. Baumann’s book

Caribbeans Urged to Write in Ancestry on U.S. Census

Identify yourself as being of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin” on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry. But check the box for “Black, African-American or Negro” and there will be no place to mark your identity.

Felicia Persaud, chairwoman of CaribID 2010

Univision, Feds Launch Hispanic Education Campaign

Univision, in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education, launched a three-year media campaign to encourage and support Latino families and their children’s academic achievement. Many other civil rights, educational and community organizations will be involved in strengthening coalitions to promote college readiness and decrease the drop-out rate for Hispanic high school students.

Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read

Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.

Three Days Before The Shooting

HBCU Case Study Documents How Schools Can Help Students Pay Back Loans

A new report released Tuesday called “Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed,” argues that institutions can work proactively to reduce default rates among former students.

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