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Group Calls Remedial Education ‘Bridge to Nowhere’

Complete College America, dedicated to improving graduation rates nationally, has dubbed remedial education a “bridge to nowhere” because the majority of students who begin remedial education never make it to credit-bearing courses.

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Leadership & Policy

Putting Emory Chalk Talk in Perspective

The students felt terrorized by a number of chalk graffiti markings that indicate a preference for the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump.

Faculty & Staff

Louisville Professor Offers Farm to Syrian Family

LOUISVILLE, Ky. ― He was a vegetable farmer in Syria before the civil war forced the family of seven to flee. She is a University of Louisville professor who lives on an unused 16-acre farm. So when sociologist Patricia Gagne read in The Courier-Journal about Ahmed Al Tybawi, his wife and five children ― she […]

UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion

According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.

University of California Approves Anti-Semitism Statement

SAN FRANCISCO ― A University of California committee agreed Wednesday to single out anti-Semitism as a form of intolerance that campus leaders should challenge but rejected a more far-reaching denouncement of arguments against Israel’s right to exist. A year in the making, the formal position opposing anti-Semitic behavior comes amid a wave of impassioned campus […]

Report: Black Student Graduation Rates Improving at Slower Rate Than Whites

A recent report released by the Education Trust found that Black student graduation rates improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for White students.

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TANAYA M. WALTERS

TANAYA M. WALTERS has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark Atlanta University. She was dean of students at Johnson and Wales University in North Carolina. Walters earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Johnson and Wales.

The Benefits of Campus Activism

Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.

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Diverse on the Go

Vice President Will Cox is representing Diverse at the AAC&U Diversity, Learning, and Student Success 2016 Conference in Philadelphia today through Friday.

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Program Launched to Increase Study Abroad at MSIs

The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) has teamed up with CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange to launch a three-year strategy to increase study abroad at minority-serving institutions (MSIs).

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Faculty & Staff

Joseph Continues to Bridge Eras of Social Change

James A. Joseph says that a friend of his sums up his life thusly: “It’s interesting to see that wherever you were, you were always a troublemaker.”

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South Africa: Protesting Students Torch University Buildings

JOHANNESBURG ― Students were ordered on Thursday to abandon a South African university, leaving behind charred, smoldering buildings after protests turned violent. North-West University said protesting students burned an administration building and science center at the campus in Mahikeng (also called Mafikeng) on Wednesday night. Student protests have erupted across South Africa, often aimed at […]

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