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Temple University’s Commitment to Diversity Questioned
When budgetary cuts become necessary at a college, the programs and departments most vulnerable are often the least fundamental to a school’s central mission. But when an institution has been ranked as the most diverse student body in higher education, it can be difficult to explain why an office that caters to multicultural students was downsized dramatically.
October 27, 2009
Budget cuts to the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Temple University resulted in staffers who mentored and assisted culturally based student organizations being re-assigned to other departments.
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Two-Year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge
Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.
October 25, 2009
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Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues
During mentoring institute, minority graduate students were told by senior scholars that they will soon inherit responsibility to help lead the push for diversity in American higher education.
October 25, 2009
Dr. Ansley Abraham
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UW Bothell Chancellor Champions For Diversity Among College Leadership
The under-representation of minorities, particularly Asian-Americans, in U.S. college presidencies can be due to the fact that many potential minority leaders in the faculty ranks are “ignored” and “overlooked,” said University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Dr. Kenyon S. Chan, who encourages chancellors to think hard about how they develop leadership on their campuses.
October 20, 2009
University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Dr. Kenyon S. Chan
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Georgetown University students call for immigration reform
On Oct. 13, students from MEChA, a student organization at Georgetown University, voice their support for comprehensive immigration reform, bringing their own stories to a rally at the Capitol.
October 18, 2009
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Ore. Student Editors Sorry for ‘Kill Jews’ Humor
A student editor at a Reed College campus-run humor publication in Portland says he and others plan to be more cautious when making decisions about the newspaper’s content after running a phony article that said students at another college killed all the Jews at their school.
October 18, 2009
Colin Diver
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Predominantly Black Sorority Empowered to Expand International Aid Work
In gaining ‘special consultative’ status from the United Nations, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority joins an elite network of organizations that provides international assistance to developing nations.
October 15, 2009
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Predominantly Black Sorority Empowered to Expand International Aid Work
In gaining ‘special consultative’ status from the United Nations, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority joins an elite network of organizations that provides international assistance to developing nations.
October 15, 2009
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WASHINGTON UPDATE : COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE HEALTH CARE
Without health insurance, University of Maryland senior Susana Sagastizado gets nervous if her nose begins to run or her forehead starts to feel warm. They are all bad signs, she said, of an illness she can\’t afford – literally.
October 14, 2009
Students
SPECTRUM: FOUND IN TRANSLATION
From his small office near the Charles River, Dr. Fallou Ngom can envision the rewriting of much of African history, including the slave trade.
October 14, 2009
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LASTWORD: PREPPING FOR THE PROFESSORIATE
Professional development mentoring, for the professoriate, is a postsecondary tool that can be used by graduate faculty to complement graduate students’ formal doctoral level course work.
October 14, 2009
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REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
October 14, 2009
Students
College Cutbacks Make it Harder to Earn Degrees
Deep budget cuts, which force colleges and universities to eliminate courses, are likely to prolong the time and increase the expense for students to earn their degrees.
October 13, 2009
Patrick Callan
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Family, Education Struggles Motivate Immigration Reform Activism
Latino students, including Georgetown University freshman Alma Huerta, are seeking to revive national immigration reform debate.
October 13, 2009
Members of Georgetown University’s MEChA organization
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Nation’s Pupils Find Few Black Men To Call Mister
Black male students at Cheyney University are among the newest recruits to the Call Me MISTER teaching program, which seeks to dramatically increase the number of African-American men teaching in U.S. public schools.
October 11, 2009
Dr. Roy Jones
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UMass-Amherst Journalism Professor Teaches Students To Be Culturally Sensitive
Journalism professors say it’s imperative to sensitize future journalists to racial issues so that they can adequately report on hot-button topics such as this summer’s arrest of Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a White police officer.
October 7, 2009
Nick McBride
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Innovative Retention Policies Highlighted in New York Meeting
More than 500 college and university officials learn winning student retention strategies at national symposium last week in Buffalo, N.Y.
October 5, 2009
Monica Michalski
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COMMITTED TO CONSERVATION
Despite budget constraints and a backlog of maintenance projects, HBCUs strive to implement green principles on their campuses.
September 30, 2009
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