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NEW STATE OF LEADERSHIP:MINORITIES BREAK COLOR BARRIERS IN TOP ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONS.
Pennsylvania, the state with the sixth-largest population in the country with more than 12 million people, reportedly has more than 450 public and private colleges, universities and career and technical training schools.
December 9, 2009
Students
THE BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE
PAACH programs connect Asian-American studies to student life at the University of Pennsylvania.
December 9, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHYNEWS: A NEGLECTED NATIONAL TREASURE
When Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital became president of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black universities (HBCU) in 2007, she knew she “inherited a national treasure that has produced some extraordinary leaders.”
December 9, 2009
Students
WASHINGTON UPDATE: FARRAH NOT RESTING ON GEAR UP
After nearly 15 years on Capitol Hill, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., still has lofty goals for U.S. education policy in the years ahead.
December 9, 2009
Students
Howard U. Dental Student Among Five Missing Americans Probed for Terror Links
Five young Americans, including a Howard University dental school student, captured in Pakistan are under investigation for possibly trying to meet up with a terror group, authorities said Wednesday.
December 9, 2009
Students
Despite Struggles, Pioneering Black Studies Department Presses Forward
A target in the 1990s culture wars, Temple University’s venerable African American studies department enters its third decade.
December 9, 2009
Dr. Nathaniel Norment
Students
Reviving A Neglected National Treasure
Cheyney University appoints advisory panel to revitalize academics and operations at the struggling historically Black institution.
December 6, 2009
Cheyney University advisory panel members
Students
Fattah Not Resting on GEAR UP’s Laurels
After nearly 15 years on Capitol Hill, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., still has lofty goals for U.S. education policy in the years ahead.
December 3, 2009
Students
Perspectives: The Role of Privilege in Diversity Education
I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office. I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office.  My presence as a person who retains several privileged cultural identities working in a diversity education office at an institution of higher education is a fact that seems counter-intuitive to many.
December 2, 2009
Students
Temple U. Establishes Center to Study, Promote Diversity-Related Issues
The discussion about race and the Philadelphia public school system had already lasted 20 minutes and Temple University students couldn’t stop talking. A forum on the country’s changing demographics hosted by the Philadelphia-based university’s new diversity research center left the students with more to say.
November 29, 2009
Former Philadelphia Mayor John Street
Students
LASTWORD: The Role of Privilege in Diversity Education
My presence as a person who retains several privileged cultural identities working in a diversity education office at an institution of higher education is a fact that seems counterintuitive to many.
November 25, 2009
Students
U. of Arkansas Suspends Fraternity Activities
The University of Arkansas has suspended fraternities’ social activities for the rest of the fall semester after a student attending a party at Phi Delta Theta was hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.
November 23, 2009
Students
HBCUs Get On Board With Direct Lending
Direct Loan-only system won’t pose expensive administrative burdens for private and small public historically Black schools, HBCU association leaders say.
November 23, 2009
Lezli Baskerville
Students
Study Abroad? College Students Drop, Rethink Plans
Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students’ interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.
November 19, 2009
Study Abroad Programs Seek More Diversity
Students
Study Identifies Factors Behind Successful Community College Transfers
Researchers focused on six Texas community colleges with large proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged students explain in newly released report why higher-than-predicted transfer rates were accomplished.
November 18, 2009
Dr. Chandra Taylor Smith
Students
Revisiting Higher Ed Accountability in the Obama Era
Panelists at a Washington think tank conference on higher education accountability questioned standards in financial management, accreditation, and the professoriate while addressing fundamental questions about the role and responsibility of U.S. higher education.
November 17, 2009
Students
As N.C. Families Struggle, College Aid Panel Meets
After N.C. lawmakers shuffled around financial aid programs around to help balance the state budget this year, a legislative commission meets this week to recommend reforms to the state’s financial aid system
November 16, 2009
N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue (right)
Students
College Students Find Support in Campus ‘Posses’
The Posse Foundation, founded by Deborah Bial, targets students in disadvantaged urban school districts who have strong leadership skills and helps keeps them in college by supporting their psychological and academic needs.
November 16, 2009
Deborah Bial
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