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Book Reviews: Follow the Money
Access, income, jobs — everything eventually comes back to the dollars.
May 3, 2011
Students
Race Complaints Persist With La. Governor Jindal’s Plan To Merge Schools
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal renews a politically and racially charged argument that pops up periodically in the roughly 20 states that have public, four-year institutions known as historically Black colleges and universities.
April 27, 2011
Students
Perspectives: Financial Aid is There; Help Students Find It
High school guidance counselors and college financial aid offices hold the key to helping needy students find the money for college.
April 26, 2011
Students
Recent Law School Graduates Face the Tightest Job Market in Years
But amid lingering industry wide uncertainties, officials at some law schools are scrambling to ensure that underrepresented minorities get jobs.
April 20, 2011
Students
Californians Join Hands to Help Community Colleges
Community college supporters across California joined hands Sunday to raise awareness and scholarship money for students struggling to pay for college.
April 18, 2011
Students
UNCF Study Shows HBCUs Chosen for Small Faculty-Student Ratio, Sense of Belonging
Study authors report that attending HBCUs allows students to “benefit from positive cultural experiences around being Black that they may not have received during their formal elementary and secondary education experiences.”
April 18, 2011
Students
Thousands Protest Budget Cuts at Calif. Colleges
More than 10,000 people marched, waved signs and occupied buildings at college campuses across California in a show of opposition to state budget cuts to education that could lead to higher tuition, larger class sizes and lower enrollment.
April 14, 2011
Students
Texas Lawmakers Back Off Concealed Carry on Campus
Students and administrators from the state’s universities mobilized in opposition, swaying two Democratic lawmakers who had supported the bill.
April 13, 2011
Students
Playing Chess Opens Door to College Scholarships
For a fourth consecutive year, a scholarship went to the winner of the Under 18 section of the Kasparov Chess Foundation’s All Girls Championships in Chicago, and it represents what tournament organizers say is a growing trend in chess competition.
April 12, 2011
Students
Arkansas Near Bottom in U.S. College Degrees Earned
A report by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education indicates fewer than 38 percent of those who entered the state’s public universities in 2004 had earned a degree within six years.
April 11, 2011
Students
Northwestern University Says It Was Misled By Renowned Journalism Professor
Northwestern University has taken public its dispute with a journalism professor whose students are credited with helping free wrongfully convicted prison inmates, accusing him of misleading officials about his handling of a wrongful conviction investigation.
April 7, 2011
Students
FAMU Board Approves President’s Restructuring Plan
A total of 89 jobs will be lost directly related to the plan, while another 109 employees will be laid off on June 30 because they were funded by the federal stimulus program.
April 7, 2011
Students
Oklahoma’s GOP Lawmakers Push to Abolish Affirmative Action
A Republican-backed plan to wipe out any affirmative action programs in Oklahoma appears headed for approval by the Legislature, prompting a bitter response from some minority lawmakers that it is merely a political ploy to play on racial fears.
April 6, 2011
Students
Military Spending Becomes Latest Battleground of For-Profit Colleges
For-profit colleges are facing a new challenge from congressional Democrats as some lawmakers have questioned the steep rise in military tuition benefits going to high-cost proprietary schools.
April 6, 2011
Students
Study: Southern Regional Education Board States Lag Behind in Completion Rates
Nationwide, 29 percent of White adults have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 27 percent in SREB states.
April 3, 2011
Students
Paying for Pell Grant Program Requires Stark Choices
To maintain the current maximum grant of $5,550 and meet demand, the Obama administration would eliminate in-school Stafford Loan subsidies for graduate students.
March 30, 2011
Students
Criminal Justice Think Tank Exits Medgar Evers Campus
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will now partner with Medgar Evers on a Community Justice Program for formerly incarcerated students that will involve professors and students from the college’s departments of social work and education and include student internships in the DA’s office.
March 30, 2011
Students
Northwestern University Journalism Professor Launches Innocence Project
David Protess will go on leave for the spring quarter to work on the Chicago Innocence Project, a reporting organization that he says will draw students from a variety of Chicago-area universities, not just Northwestern.
March 29, 2011
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