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Women’s Colleges Receive High Marks for Learning Effectiveness But recruiting minority students still a challenge
Women’s Colleges Receive High Marks for Learning Effectiveness But recruiting minority students still a challengeBY Eleanor Lee YatesAmherst, Va.Good news for women’s colleges: A recent national survey of 276 colleges and universities has found that students attending women’s colleges give their schools high marks for learning effectiveness, as well as for providing enriching educational experiences […]
Recruitment & Retention
Wisconsin Regents Want More Minority Recruitment After Photo Embarrassment
Wisconsin Regents Want More Minority Recruitment After Photo EmbarrassmentMADISON, Wis. Two University of Wisconsin System regents say the Madison campus needs to step up minority recruitment after an embarrassing photo gaffe drew unwanted national attention. University officials admitted they digitally altered the cover photograph of an admissions booklet to include the face of a Black […]
Recruitment & Retention
Iowa State University Plan Would Spend $5.8 Million to Diversify Faculty
Iowa State University Plan Would Spend $5.8 Million to Diversify FacultyAMES, Iowa Iowa State University administrators want to spend $5.8 million over five years on a program to improve diversity among the faculty. The money would go toward minority faculty recruitment and finding jobs for employee spouses so that families won’t have to leave Iowa […]
Faculty & Staff
How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing Fair
How to Recruit and Promote Minority Faculty: Start By Playing FairSometimes, you have to review the rules of the game to make sure that you are applying them fairly to everyone. Recent legal attacks on affirmative action have made colleges and universities nervous about their efforts to recruit faculty (as well as students) from underrepresented […]
Students
Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange Programs
Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange ProgramsTUSKEGEE, Ala.Students and faculty at Tuskegee University here and the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin participating in a joint exchange program.Initially, the program will feature the exchange of six to 10 undergraduate students in both directions. Those exchanges will last for one semester. Faculty exchanges are scheduled to […]
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Staying Power: Colleges Work to Improve Retention Rates
Staying Power: Colleges Work to Improve Retention RatesBy Hilary HurdHAMPTON, Va.T wo years ago, Wilbur Powell was a first-semester freshman. He slept too much, watched too much TV and was not excited about the classes he was taking. By the end of the semester, he had a 1.3 grade-point average. Rudea Downs also was a […]
Recruitment & Retention
College Retention and Completion Program Hits Snag in Congress’ Final Days
College Retention and Completion Program Hits Snag in Congress’ Final Days Despite facing gridlock on other education issues, Congress was nearing a final agreement earlier this month to expand federal TRIO programs with targeted funds in support of college retention and completion. But final approval posed a challenge that had not been met at Black Issues […]
HBCUs
The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant in the RoomThere is a saying that doctors bury their mistakes. It appears that in our education system, we also bury our mistakes — in the form of our dismal retention rates.One only has to look at the record that begins with the limited number of students who have access to Advanced Placement […]
Recruitment & Retention
Pounding the Electronic Pavement for Jobs
Pounding the Electronic Pavement for JobsLabor, if it were not necessary for the existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man,” wrote 18th century English author Samuel Johnson. Sometimes, though, work can make you just miserable.Whether you’re looking to change jobs, need to hire or are just starting your career, the Internet can help. […]
Students
Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students
Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students LARAMIE, Wyo. A new committee has been formed at the University of Wyoming to help boost enrollment of minorities. The Multicultural Campus Visit Committee is aiming to increase ethnic enrollment to 1,400 students by 2005. “Our committee’s goals right now are to increase the number of minority […]
Recruitment & Retention
UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative action
UT-KnoxVille creates v.p. post to handleaffirmative actionKNOXVILLE, Tenn. The University of Tennessee will create a new vice president position specifically to boost minority enrollment and hiring, says Dr. J. Wade Gilley, the university’s president. “For the first time, we will have a major administrator in charge of affirmative action,” Gilley told The Knoxville News-Sentinel. The […]
Recruitment & Retention
Putting Our Issues on the Agenda
Putting Our Issues on the AgendaIn an academy ripe with scholarship as mind-boggling and varied as a president’s “to do” list is long, determining what will be the biggest issues to watch this new academic year was difficult, at best. With the higher education world taking on so much — from affirmative action to student […]
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