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Vanessa Sansone: Determined to Make a Difference
Dr. Vanessa Sansone has used her personal background of being a first-generation college student and growing up in a low-income community as influence for her teachings and research on underrepresented groups.
August 9, 2018
Students
Study: Student Loan Debt for Millennials Becoming More Manageable
While student loan debt is still a big challenge for millennials, there is evidence that it is becoming more manageable thanks in large part to an improving economy, expanding job market and rising incomes for the demographic group.
August 7, 2018
Students
Harvardâs Asian Problem Does Not Justify the Blum Lawsuit
That lawsuit filed by White conservative Ed Blum using Asians as proxies to fight affirmative action may have revealed in discovery a complex and unique admissions process at Harvard. But using race to determine admissions is legal, and the suit doesnât justify changing current law.
August 7, 2018
Students
How to Make Our Institutions More Accessible
While higher education is abuzz with goals of cultivating greater access and success for historically underrepresented groups, many institutions still engage in practices that work against these goals. If we are truly going to open our doors wider, we canât do so without transforming our own policies and practices.
August 6, 2018
Students
NDNU a Place to âDo Good and Do Wellâ for Bay Area Students
Notre Dame de Namur in Belmont, Calif. is often ranked among the most diverse higher education campuses with a population that is roughly two-thirds students of color and a track record of success producing graduates from underrepresented populations.
August 3, 2018
Students
Mentored Research Programs Aim to Reduce Disparities
Participants in innovative undergraduate initiatives such as the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) and Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP) at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater (UW-W) campus say they see positive strides for minority, low-income and underrepresented students.
August 2, 2018
Students
Single Moms with College Degrees Less Likely to Experience Poverty
A new report from the Institute for Womenâs Policy Research (IWPR) this week adds to the instituteâs ongoing research on the âlife-changingâ impact of earning a postsecondary degree for single mothers. IWPRâs findings show that, in 2016 â the year with the latest available data â just 13 percent of single mothers who earned a [âŠ]
August 1, 2018
Students
NASA Gives $1.4M for STEM Course Development at MSIs
College of the Desert and Prince Georgeâs Community College are among five minority serving institutions selected to receive grant funding from NASA to develop or enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses through NASAâs Minority University Research and Education Project.
August 1, 2018
Students
Institute for University Women Leaders from Diverse Global Venues Builds Network
When undertaking American federal grants in the United States and England, we encountered international women students from countries in the midst of or having recently undergone political conflicts, violent kidnappings, and civil wars. Now they are in transitional stages moving toward democratic governments.
August 1, 2018
Students
Arcadia Universityâs Black Alumni Launch Travel Scholarship Program
The Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University (BAAAU) recently launched a travel scholarship program after finding that, this year, only 6.5 percent of African-American students participated in the universityâs flagship travel experience called âPreview,â according to BAAAU president Aliyah Abraham. BAAAUâs scholarship program will work with the Act 101/Gateway to Success program to financially support [âŠ]
July 30, 2018
Students
Eight HBCU Students Awarded Beyoncé-Google Scholarships
Texas Southern University (TSU) student Jordan Davis is one of eight recipients of the 2018-19 BeyGOOD Homecoming Scholars Award. Superstar singer-actress BeyoncĂ© Knowles-Carter created the initiative in April alongside Google.org, the philanthropic site of Google, in order to provide scholarships to students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Davis will receive $25,000 in scholarship [âŠ]
July 27, 2018
Students
Betsy DeVos Proposes to Shorten Debt Relief for Defrauded Students
The U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, motioned Wednesday to limit Obama administration loan forgiveness rules for students deceived by for-profit institutions, requiring that student borrowers show they are in difficult financial situations or prove that their colleges negligently deceived them. The proposal, which is set to take effect next year, would âestablish a federal [âŠ]
July 26, 2018
Students
Federally Funded Programs Are Not Enough to Diversify the STEM Workforce
Despite billions of dollars being invested on hundreds of programs that are created to increase the number of minorities who enter STEM fields, data from Change the Equation, indicates that todayâs STEM workforce is no more diverse than it was 15 years ago.
July 24, 2018
Students
Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color
If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.
July 23, 2018
Students
Strayhorn Appointed to Leadership Post at LeMoyne-Owen College
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a prominent education researcher and author, has been named interim vice president for academic and student affairs at LeMoyne-Owen College, a private historically Black college in Memphis.
July 19, 2018
Students
TCUs: Saving Native American Education
Native Americans have the lowest educational attainment of any race. One of the ways in which mainstream institutions are failing them is by simply not addressing the values of Native American students.
July 19, 2018
Students
Part II: Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Students in Their Journey to Academic Success
Every instructor, teacher and professor was once a student in a classroom. Yes, times have changed significantly, yet the fundamentals of the college experience and the goals for your teaching and student learning remain universal.
July 11, 2018
Students
Sisters, Other-Mothers and Aunties: The Importance of Informal Mentors for Black Women Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions
Mentoring is paramount to the success of Black women pursuing graduate degrees. Unfortunately, mentors at predominantly White institutions who provide formal mentoring for Black women graduate students are few and far between.
July 10, 2018
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