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Asian Evasion: A Recipe for Flawed Resolutions

Asians are arguably one of the most misunderstood groups in higher education. Even categorizing “Asian” students can be quite confusing. For example, should data be disaggregated by different Asian subgroups?

NC System Reverses Itself, Won’t Admit Undocumented

North Carolina community colleges will have to wait longer for a resolution to a controversy over admitting undocumented students that has been brewing since the system issued a directive last December to do so as part of the prevailing open-admissions policy

Southern California Districts Facing ‘No Child Left Behind’ Sanctions

At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.

Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation

A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.

Arkansas Organization Moves to Deny Benefits to Undocumented

The Arkansas attorney general’s office cleared the way on last Wednesday for supporters of a ballot measure requiring government agencies to verify all those seeking public benefits in the state are legal U.S. residents to begin gathering signatures.

African-American

Literary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow Works

Diverse: What led you as a literary scholar to write Betrayal? HB: The motivation was, as interesting as it may seem now more than 20 years down the line, the culture wars that were launched by neoconservatives and the think tanks that support their point of view in the United States back in the late […]

Leadership & Policy

Bowling Green State President Named Next Leader of Howard University

Bowling Green State University President Sidney A. Ribeau has been named president of Howard University, its Board of Trustees announced Wednesday.

Conference Highlights Successful Schools

When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.

African-American

Survey: Nearly 60 Percent of Hispanic and Black Children Can’t Swim

Nearly 60 percent of Hispanic and African-American children cannot swim, almost twice the figure for White children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey that USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more minority children into the sport.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian Higher Education Leaders Offer Advice to Break the Bamboo Ceiling

When Dr. Ratna Naik was offered the job of dean of physics at Wayne State University, she was reluctant to accept.

African-American

58 Percent of Black Children Can’t Swim

Nearly 60 percent of African-American children cannot swim, almost twice the figure for White children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more Blacks into the sport.

Native Americans

Rocky Mountain College’s VP for Planning, Indian Affairs Resigning

Janine Pease is resigning as Rocky Mountain College’s vice president for planning and American Indian affairs at the end of June to take an administrative position with Fort Peck Community College.

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