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“No One Told Me…”

The hit Broadway play “In the Heights” centers around the story of Nina, a child of the barrio who is the first in her family to go to college, indeed to Stanford.

Faculty & Staff

ETS Report Recommends Strategies to Reduce Racial Gaps in Praxis Exam Performance

Putting in place an early preparation program for student teachers is one of several recommendations made in a new report that prescribes ways to help prospective teachers from diverse groups pass teacher license exams.

Black College Conference Takes on Public Criticism of HBCUs

This year, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s professional institute conference has provided practical ideas and strategies to address major challenges facing HBCUs.

Georgia Technical College Students Required to Maintain B Average to Retain HOPE Funding

Thousands of working moms, laid-off factory employees and others who flocked to Georgia’s 26 technical colleges for job training because of the recession could lose the HOPE Grants that pay their tuition under changes the state is making to the cash-strapped program.

Gainful Employment Gets Another Look on Capitol Hill

Few solutions are offered and some argue there are bigger problems to tackle.

HBCU Sexual Assault Study Released

Often precipitated by the consumption of alcohol, attempted or completed sexual assaults directly affect about 14 percent of all female students on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities, but the attacks often go unreported due to shame, guilt or fear.

Leadership & Policy

UMES President Thelma Thompson Announces Retirement

Her decision ends a nine-year tenure at the state’s lone 1890 land-grant university.

Thelma Thompson

African-American

La. Regents’ Consultant Suggests Options in SUNO/UNO Study

A consultant studying a controversial proposal to merge of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans suggested two options Monday to rework an educational system deemed to be failing the city’s students.

Faculty & Staff

Traditional Racial Labels No Longer Define New Generation of College Students

When it comes to serving diverse students, colleges realize one size does not fit all, even within the same racial group.

Chavez, Dimanche & Onafowokan

African-American

HBCU Merger Proposals Persist Despite Fervent Opposition

Now, some advocates and leaders within the Black higher education community are warming to partnerships and other alternatives.

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx: Limit Federal Role in Higher Education

House subcommittee chair plans to address oversight and regulatory issues in federal higher education spending.

Lumina Foundation president Jamie Merisotis

No Worker Left Behind Program Helps Spur Community College Enrollment

Adult enrollment at Michigan’s Jackson Community College has risen 65 percent over the past five years, and federal and state programs, such as No Worker Left Behind have helped boost enrollment.

Jackson Community College

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