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Hispanic Leaders Seek to Create ‘New Era’ of Higher Education Excellence

Hispanic Leaders Seek to Create ‘New Era’ of Higher Education ExcellenceBy Charles Dervarics An expanded Pell Grant and greater financial aid access to immigrant students are among the major themes of a new package of Higher Education Act improvements proposed by Hispanic higher education leaders. As the U.S. Congress prepares to review HEA, the plan […]

African-American

Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank

Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank WASHINGTON Howard University hopes to create the nation’s largest bank of DNA from Black Americans with the aim of studying genes involved in diseases that disproportionately strike Blacks. The DNA bank isn’t funded yet, but the university announced last month that it would work with a well-known database […]

Student Survey Examines Influence of War in Iraq

Student Survey Examines Influence of War in IraqCHESTER, Pa.Thirty-five percent of prospective graduate students say the war in Iraq has made them more interested in government or military jobs, according to a new survey from GradSchools.com. In addition, over one-third feel opportunities with defense contractors, the military and the government have increased since the war […]

W.Va. College to Offer Homeland Security Degree

W.Va. College to Offer Homeland Security Degree FAIRMONT, W.Va.Fairmont State Community and Technical College plans to offer an associate’s degree in homeland security beginning this fall. The school’s governing board approved the two-year degree recently. “To our knowledge, this is the first homeland security associate’s degree to be announced, and absolutely the first that has […]

Lawmaker Calls for More Training To Improve Student Visa Program

Lawmaker Calls for More Training To Improve Student Visa Program By Charles Dervarics College and federal employees need more training to make the nation’s new student visa system work effectively, says a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Amid mounting concern about the new Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the U.S. House of […]

Bringing Color to the International Intellectual Table

Bringing Color to the International Intellectual TableBy Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters There has never been a time like today where the need to understand other cultures has been so paramount. With a world population exceeding 6 billion people, a global economy that is deeply interconnected, and precarious political ideologies that instigate wars — we fundamentally need […]

International Educational Exchange: The Best Defense

International Educational Exchange: The Best DefenseBy Evelyn Hamilton We are living in perilous times. They are times of instability, intolerance and uncertainty. Each day, we are bombarded with images and ideologies that force us to admit our vulnerability as global citizens. The wall that seemed to protect the United States from the ills that plagued […]

Riding the High Tide

Riding the High Tide India has surpassed China as the leading sender of foreign students to the United States, so why are its students increasingly drawn to U.S. universities?By Shilpa Banerji When 24-year-old Anil Mukherji joined Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral research assistant in chemistry in 1957, he was one of four Indians in […]

Paris Noir

Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]

21st Century Higher Education: A Global View

21st Century Higher Education: A Global View Our two opinion pieces, “BI Forum” and the “Last Word,” written by Evelyn Hamilton and Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters respectively, touch on a similar theme — the urgent need to understand cultures other than our own. Indeed, this need has never been greater. The current environment in which we […]

Grants & Awards

Arizona State University’s College of Business will receive a $50 million gift from Wm. Polk Carey, chairman of New York City-based investment firm W.P. Carey & Co. LLC and grandson of John Samuel Armstrong, the legislative founder of Arizona State. The gift will endow the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. Fisk University (Tenn.) […]

Leadership & Policy

Colleges’ Success in International Education Draws National Recognition

Colleges’ Success in International Education Draws National Recognition NEW YORKColleges and universities that have been successful in encouraging international study and increasing participation in the international elements of teaching and learning were recognized last month by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York City. In presenting the second annual Andrew Heiskell Awards for […]

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