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New Web Site Evaluates Colleges and Universities on Core Requirements

When it comes to college, paying a lot doesn’t necessarily mean getting a lot, a new Web site reports. WhatWillTheyLearn.com, launched by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), evaluates colleges and universities on their general education curricula and many of the most expensive schools received poor marks for requiring little study in core subjects.

HBCU News Nuggets

With more than 100 historically Black colleges and universities in the country, we could not cover them all. Here’s a glimpse at initiatives some of them are pursuing.

HBCU Power Brokers on Capitol Hill

Meet some of the movers and shakers who make things happen in Washington, D.C.

Faculty & Staff

Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse identifies five threats facing HBCUs and five opportunities that could define their futures.

More Black and Hispanic Students Taking the ACT Exam, College Readiness Levels Remain Flat

While scores and college readiness levels remained relatively flat from 2008, the numbers of Black and Hispanic high school graduates in 2009 who took the ACT college entrance exam remained the same or increased for a fourth consecutive year nationally, according to the ACT ‘Measuring College and Career Readiness: The Class of 2009’ report.

Partners for Digital Equality, The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and The National Hispanic University Announce Alliance

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Gene Variant Predicts Racial Disparity in Hepatitis Treatment Success

Scientists say they’ve found a big reason why treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection works better for White patients than for African-Americans. It’s a tiny variation in a gene.

Native Americans

Tribal Members, Researchers Band Together to Bring Back Condor

The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.

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Black Male Enrollment at Mississippi Institutions Lags

A task force commissioned by the Mississippi College Board to recommend ways to improve Black male college enrollment has not made much progress despite having more than a year on the job.

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Black male university enrollment still lags

More than a year after the Mississippi College Board launched a fact-finding mission to bolster the number of black males attending and graduating college, no specific recommendations are in hand. According to clarionledger.com, a statewide task force has met a few times since its creation in June 2008, but officials say it could be at […]

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CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE

For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nationâ€™s leading meteorologists, has been among the U.S. scientists that have studied and predicted the long-term impact greenhouse gas emissions.

SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: â€œStand and Deliver,â€ â€œLa Bamba,â€ â€œMilagro Beanfield Warâ€ and â€œBorn in East L.A.â€

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