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Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach Efforts
Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsAs Mark Spencer sees it, students at the University of California-Berkeley have had too little guidance and resources to help them join community organizations in the San Francisco Bay area that are involved in environmental education and restoration projects. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Ecology at Berkeley’s College […]
November 5, 2003
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Reports: Importance of Federal Student Aid Continues to Grow
Reports: Importance of Federal Student Aid Continues to GrowWASHINGTONTwo newly released reports from the American Council on Education (ACE) illustrate rapid growth in the federal student loan programs and the critical importance of the Pell Grant program, the nation’s largest single source of need-based grant assistance. The “2003 Status Report on the Federal Education Loan […]
October 22, 2003
Students
UNC Initiative to Make College More Accessible for Low-Income Students
UNC Initiative to Make College More Accessible for Low-Income Students CHAPEL HILL, N.C.The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a groundbreaking initiative earlier this month to give the children of low-income families an opportunity to attend college — without borrowing a penny.The initiative, “The Carolina Covenant,” will enable low-income students to come to […]
October 22, 2003
Students
Commitment at the Highest Levels
Commitment at the Highest Levels”Bringing more than skin color to the party” pretty much sums up our cover story on recruiting faculty of color. One new faculty hire from Rochester Institute of Technology says minority faculty have to do just that and must “bring ways to contribute to the strategic direction of the university and […]
October 22, 2003
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Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education
Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]
October 8, 2003
Students
Grants & Awards
Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]
October 8, 2003
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Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules
Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules QUINCY, Calif.California community colleges and their faculty are not responsible for injuries to students who are engaged in off-campus assignments, a state appellate court has unanimously held.The decision bars a suit by a Feather River Community College student who suffered crippling injuries when she was thrown […]
October 8, 2003
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Duke Students Hold Rally to Denounce Racism
Duke Students Hold Rally to Denounce Racism DURHAM, N.C.Students, professors and administrators at Duke University held a rally against racism last month after a fraternity sponsored a party that Latino students say demeaned their heritage.Fraternity members from Sigma Chi designed fliers that looked like expired green cards, on the chapter’s Web site and built the […]
October 8, 2003
Students
When Academia Meets Activism
When Academia Meets ActivismHarvard’s Color Lines conference draws nearly 1,000 participants to share new insights, data on the nation’s agenda on raceBy Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Labor Day weekend is not the time of year one would expect hundreds of professors, graduate students and other education professionals to be encamped under a white tent at the Harvard […]
September 24, 2003
Students
Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow
Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]
September 24, 2003
Students
Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama
Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala.A Black student at the University of Alabama accepted a bid to a traditionally White sorority last month, a rare case in which the longstanding racial exclusivity of the campus Greek social system has been broken.Carla Ferguson, a freshman from Tuscaloosa, was the […]
September 10, 2003
Students
‘Acting White’ Does Not Affect Minority Student Achievement, Study Finds
‘Acting White’ Does Not Affect Minority Student Achievement, Study Finds COLUMBIA, Mo.Whether listening to heavy metal music or wearing khakis, many minority students in schools throughout the United States are accused of “acting White.” If these accusations lead students to avoid “acting White” by shunning academic achievement, educators see a major problem. A researcher at […]
September 10, 2003
Students
Expanding Roles for Minorities And Professionals in Higher Education
Expanding Roles for Minorities And Professionals in Higher Education
August 27, 2003
Professional Development
Students
NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows
NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows SILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) has selected 13 outstanding faculty, from historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities, for its first class of Kellogg Leadership Fellows in the NAFEO National Leadership Institute. The institute is designed to train and develop the […]
August 27, 2003
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Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated Environment
Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated EnvironmentRecent studies assess race, academic achievement in the nation’s charter schools By Ben Hammer WASHINGTON Charter school students perform slightly better on standardized tests than their public school counterparts, but go to schools that tend to be racially segregated, two recent studies have found. A study by […]
August 27, 2003
Students
Congress Must Address College ‘Cost Crisis,’ GOP Says Fewer students able to take advantage of federal resources, leaders say
Congress Must Address College ‘Cost Crisis,’ GOP Says Fewer students able to take advantage of federal resources, leaders sayBy Charles Dervarics Setting the stage for a potentially contentious battle on higher education’s future, Republican education leaders in Congress say the nation’s higher education system faces a major “cost crisis” in which escalating tuitions have left […]
August 27, 2003
Students
Ending Affirmative Action: 25 Years to Go
Ending Affirmative Action: 25 Years to GoBy Dr. Charles V. Willie Justice Sandra Day O’Connor repeatedly mentioned “the educational benefits of a diverse student body” in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that approved the way the University of Michigan’s law school selects applicants for matriculation to diversify its student body. Specifically she said, “The […]
August 13, 2003
Students
From Opening Doors to Opening Minds
From Opening Doors to Opening MindsBy Dr. George L. Daniels It was 40 years ago this past June that the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium trying to prevent the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. His defiant stance against integration won him […]
August 13, 2003
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