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Students
Some Schools Working Through MLK Holiday
While most public colleges and universities will be closed today to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a number will be open for business.
January 19, 2014
Students
NC Endowment Offers $10M to Improve College Access
RALEIGH, N.C.—A North Carolina endowment is giving $10 million to improve access to higher education for low-income students in rural North Carolina high schools.
January 16, 2014
Students
New Reports Help Answer Expanding College Opportunity Challenge
The Education Trust organization released a pair of reports highlighting measures institutions can take to boost enrollment and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities and low-income students.
January 16, 2014
Students
LSU’s Graduation Rate at All-Time High
BATON ROUGE, La.—For the third year in a row LSU has notched an all-time high graduation rate, with 69.1 percent of students walking away from the university with a degree in hand—the highest graduation rate out of all public universities in the state.
January 15, 2014
Students
Baraka’s Legacy: Let’s Not Forget Inaugural Black Studies Professor
A major chapter is often left out in the recent attempts to share Amiri Baraka’s story and define his legacy — pioneering, prominent professor.
January 13, 2014
Students
Tech Students Get Support from Ga. Governor
Nathan Deal is proposing a separate scholarship for full tuition in the HOPE grant program, one of a handful of higher education proposals designed to create marketable grads.
January 8, 2014
Students
Obama Administration: End Zero Tolerance
The wide-ranging series of guidelines issued Wednesday in essence tells schools that they must adhere to the principle of fairness and equity in student discipline or face strong action if they don’t.
January 8, 2014
Students
Study Urges Tough Measures for Parent PLUS Loan Requirements
A new report released by the New America Foundation urges reforms to ensure that the Parent PLUS loan program does not burden parent borrowers with debt they cannot pay back.
January 8, 2014
Students
Former Emerging Scholars of the Year: Where are they now?
Brian Blake Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Dean of the Graduate School University of Miami Class of 2007 Dr. Mitchell Chang Professor, Higher Education and Organizational Change, University of California, Los Angeles Class of 2006 Dr. Sean Decatur President Kenyon College Class of 2007 Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick Interim President Howard University Class of 2011 […]
January 2, 2014
Students
Special Report: Emerging Scholars
In this edition Diverse also presents the Emerging Scholars Class of 2014. This is our annual look at 12 standout scholars, under age 40, who are making their mark in the academy. And in honor of our 30th anniversary we also take a look back at 18 Emerging Scholars from years past to find out […]
January 2, 2014
Students
Maine Student Loan Tax Credit Program Falls Flat
Lawmakers heralded the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit as a bold plan to prevent “brain drain” and keep the best and the brightest in the state when they approved it in 2007.
January 1, 2014
Students
Faculty Panel Gives OK to Deviant Behavior Class
A course at the University of Colorado on deviant behavior has passed a faculty review, but the professor behind the class said she is still not sure if she’ll return after being suspended from teaching it.
January 1, 2014
Students
Ex-Frat House Becomes Home for Va. Tech Entrepreneurs
Virginia Tech invited freshmen with “entrepreneurial spirits” to apply to live in the $5 million brick mansion after the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was kicked off campus in May for bad behavior.
December 30, 2013
Students
University of Minnesota to Offer Gender-neutral Student Housing
The University of Minnesota is preparing to offer gender-neutral housing at its Twin Cities campus.
December 29, 2013
Students
Calif. Higher Ed Leader: Demand-Based Funding Best Serves Underrepresented Groups
California Community Colleges Chancellor Dr. Brice W. Harris says that the prospect of outcome-based funding poses the risk of forcing colleges to leave a whole generation of students behind.
December 24, 2013
Students
University of North Florida Won’t Appeal Court Ruling on Guns
President John Delaney states that students will be allowed to store guns in their cars.
December 23, 2013
Students
Crazy Horse Program Jumpstarts College Careers
Program’s CEO says about 68 percent of the students who have attended Indian University of North America summer sessions in the backdrop of the mammoth mountain carving in South Dakota’s Black Hills have continued to pursue degrees at private public or tribal colleges and universities.
December 23, 2013
Students
Alabama State Trustees Choose Boyd as President
Gwendolyn Boyd went from a Montgomery housing project as a girl to a career with a leadership position at Johns Hopkins University.
December 22, 2013
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