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Against All Odds

While a graduate student at Stanford University, Veronica Mendoza conducted research on six Latino students

October 19, 2005

Why Isn’t Eligibility Part of the Affirmative Action Debate?

Since the mid to late 1990s, the attack on the use of race in college admissions was chiefly waged via ballot initiations

October 19, 2005

Utah State Office Outlines Ethnic Affairs Strategy

Utah’s Office of Ethnic Affairs has drafted a two-year strategy to publicize, develop and support services to the state’s ethnic…

October 10, 2005

Report: International Student Enrollments Decline, Graduate Enrollments Increase, Undergraduates Drop

The number of international students enrolled in U.S. higher education institutions decreased by 2.4 percent in 2003/04 to a total of 572,509, according to Open Doors 2004…

October 10, 2005

New Missouri State Head Wants More Diversity

Missouri State University should boost the number of minorities on campus, toughen academic standards and bring in more…

October 6, 2005

Congress Attempts to Relieve Financial Burdens Of Students Displaced by Katrina

College students whose educations were interrupted by Hurricane Katrina might get some relief from their student aid burden.

October 5, 2005

Asian American Leaders Criticize Handling of Student Complaint by Washington Human Rights Commission

Asian American students and community leaders are criticizing a state Human Rights Commission task force report

October 5, 2005

Katrina’s Aftermath: What Now?

As the floodwaters drowning New Orleans recede, they may well be swamping other HBCUs across the country as schools gear up

October 5, 2005

Survey Shows Mobile Gaming Nearly Doubling

The annual “Digital Gaming in America” survey by Ziff Davis Media Game Group reveals that cell phone gaming has

October 5, 2005

Grants & Awards

The Community College of Baltimore County is one of five institutions that will share a $2.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Regional Center of Excellence in Biomanufacturing. The grant, which runs for four years, enables CCBC and its partner institutions — New Hampshire Technical and Community College, Finger Lakes Community […]

October 5, 2005

National Black MBAs to Award Students $300K in Scholarships

High school and college students eager to jumpstart their educational and career goals will have plenty of…

October 4, 2005

Tribal Colleges Want State Lottery Scholarships

Four tribal college presidents want their students to be eligible for the state lottery scholarship…

October 2, 2005

Report: Australian University Appoints ‘Heterosexuality Officer’

A kangaroo-hunting, beer-drinking 22-year-old student has been appointed Australian…

September 29, 2005

Constance Baker Motley, Civil Rights Lawyer and Federal Judge, Dies at 84

When she was 15, Constance Baker Motley was turned away from a public beach because she was Black…

September 29, 2005

Clinton, Dole Appear at Bennett College Fund-raiser

Former President Bill Clinton and former Sen. Bob Dole, once political rivals…

September 25, 2005

Grants & Awards

Davidson College (N.C.) received a $4 million commitment from The Duke Endowment to renovate the James B. Duke Residence Hall and establish it as the permanent home of the college’s Dean Rusk International Studies Program. Jackson State University (Miss.) received a five-year, $5 million grant from former Netscape Corp. president and CEO James Barksdale to […]

September 21, 2005

Devastated But Not Defeated

Nineteen-year-old Hal Boutte was one of the lucky ones. Boutte fled New Orleans only a few hours

September 21, 2005

HBCUs Reach Out

It had not occurred to Lorena Sajardo to consider Texas Southern University as a possible college until

September 21, 2005