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2008 Budget: A Mix of Winners and Losers
Controversial Upward Bound experiment halted, and some MSIs win in earmarks.
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Leadership & Policy
Accreditation Probation for Country’s Two Largest HBCUs
Institutions must address laundry lists of issues after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ meeting last month.
Community Colleges
Chat Transcripts: International Talks – Community Colleges and Global Recruiting
Read transcripts of the Diverse web chat event on community colleges and global recruiting. Chat was held on Tuesday, January 22nd.
Latinx
2008 Budget: A Mix of Winners and Losers
For higher education, Congress’ long-awaited omnibus 2008 spending bill is a decidedly mixed bag with a few victories and some unexpected setbacks.
Leadership & Policy
In Brief: College Advertisement Has Unintended Double Meaning
The advertisement said Blackhawk Technical College was a good fit for “the White family,” with White being the proper name of an actual family, but some read racial overtones. Also, the University of North Dakota opposes affirmative action ban. University of Maryland, Eastern Shores becomes the first HBCU with an accredited golf program.
HBCUs
HBCU Students Head to South Carolina to Help Obama
Early on, the presidential campaigns of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were dividing Black Democrats across the country, but students on Black college campuses are unifying in support of Obama.
Students
GOP Bill Would Deny Undocumented Students Admission To S.C. Public Colleges
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — House Republican leaders unveiled an immigration reform plan Monday that would bill the federal government for the cost of detaining illegal immigrants and prevent illegals from attending any public college.
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Community Colleges
Iowa Governor’s Budget Short-Changes Community Colleges, GOP Lawmakers Say
DES MOINES, Iowa — Republican lawmakers complained Wednesday that Gov. Chet Culver’s proposed budget doesn’t provide enough funding for the state’s community colleges.
Leadership & Policy
Support For Undocumented Student Aid Costs California Community Colleges Board President Her Seat
This week in the majority-Democrat California State Senate, GOP senators succeeded in blocking the confirmation of Community Colleges Board of Governors President Katherine Albiani. The Senate voted along party lines to reject Albiani, the third of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s appointees to the board voted down in the past year by united GOP opposition to the board’s decision to back the Dream Act, which would grant financial aid to undocumented students.
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Latinx
Hispanic Women Pursue Higher Education Despite the Odds, Says Study
Researchers studying “Why Hispanic Undergraduate Women Persist in Higher Education” in spite of intense cultural pressure have concluded that their major reason for going to school was to create a better life for themselves and their families.
HBCUs
Perspectives: HBCUs and the Coming Era of Growth and Service
In recent days syndicated columnist Walter E. Williams has questioned whether historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have outlived their usefulness and viability.
Students
Lincoln U.: Tolson Gave to Wiley Students What He Received Here
Arguing that Melvin Tolson’s passion, eloquently portrayed by Denzel Washington in “The Great Debaters,” was harvested during his time as an undergraduate at Lincoln University, the Pennsylvania HBCU is on a crusade to claim Tolson as one of its own. Officials hope to reinvigorate debating competition among HBCUs and boost student participation in the Melvin B. Tolson Literary Society, founded at Lincoln in 1966.
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