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Legal Experts Await Supreme Court’s Ruling

Does a Black student improve educationally by sitting next to a White student in class?…

December 27, 2006

Teacher-Turned-Philanthropist Does Her Part

Dr. Annette Rickel has proven that you don’t have to be Bill Gates or George Soros to make a difference…

December 27, 2006

Yale to Create Position to Oversee

With the help of private donations, Yale University is creating an endowment for a new assistant dean position…

December 27, 2006

Damage Control at Dartmouth

American Indian students at Dartmouth College may be enjoying their winter break more than other students…

December 27, 2006

Trying Times for Bishop State

Decades before segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace blocked the University of Alabama’s doors to African-Americans…

December 27, 2006

Colin Powell Center Gets $10 Million To Develop More Black Policy Makers

The New York Life Foundation is providing $10 million to fund the Endowment for Emerging African American Issues…

December 27, 2006

Widening the Door to Higher Education

Here is a modest proposal, and it’s guaranteed to generate even more sensationalistic media coverage of higher education than we’re currently subjected to…

December 27, 2006

Minority Librarians Seek To Update Image of White ‘Bun Lady’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Librarians have long been portrayed as the little old White lady with her hair in a bun and glasses on a chain around her neck, “shushing” noisy people, but Deborah Lilton represents a more modern image.

December 18, 2006

Two FAMU Kappa Fraternity Members Convicted of Felony Hazing

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Two Florida fraternity brothers were convicted of felony hazing Friday in a trial seen as a test of a new law restricting the practice, but jurors were unable to reach a verdict on three other defendants.

December 16, 2006

Report: Low-income Students Misinformed About Costs and Benefits of Private Loans

WASHINGTON, D.C. As incoming college students continue to borrow from private lenders to combat rising tuition costs, low-income undergraduate students are among the least informed about the financial aid process, according to a new report released today (Friday) by the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

December 14, 2006

Trouble at Texas Southern

On the night of Dec. 4, 2004, a Texas Southern University student named Ashley Sloan was gunned down near campus…

December 13, 2006

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama Joins Education Committee

The Democratic takeover of the U.S. Senate promises to bring student aid issues to the forefront…

December 13, 2006

Flagship Institutions Serve Whiter, Wealthier Student Body, Study Says

The leading public flagship universities are disproportionately serving a Whiter and wealthier student body than in the past…

December 13, 2006

Turning Up the Heat on Affirmative Action Policies

Conservatives were already basking in the affirmative action ban approved by Michigan voters last month…

December 13, 2006

Trouble at Texas Southern

On the night of Dec. 4, 2004, a Texas Southern University student named Ashley Sloan was gunned down near campus

December 13, 2006

Financing College Diversity: Is it a Case Of ‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’?

Many readers may be shocked to learn that some of this nation’s colleges and universities practice price…

December 13, 2006

NYC College Will Yank Sign Honoring Bomb Maker, Black Militant

NEW YORK A New York City college has agreed to take down a sign naming a student center after a fugitive terrorist and a Black militant convicted of murdering a police trooper.

December 12, 2006

Tufts Editor Apologizes For Satire Aimed At Affirmative Action

MEDFORD, Mass. –An editor at a Tufts University conservative journal has apologized for publishing a satirical Christmas carol that ridiculed Black students and campus affirmative action policies.

December 11, 2006