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Hispanic Scholars, Students Pressure Princeton for Latino Studies Program
For more than 30 years, students have been urging the administration to bring Latino studies to Princeton University.
June 16, 2008
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Schools Drop Landlines As More Students Carry Cell Phones
Consumers are moving away from being tied-down by landlines. And so too are universities as more students carry cell phones.
June 15, 2008
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Report: Low-income Students in Wealthier States Benefit From Increased Education Spending
Cameron Elementary School located in Virginia and Ponderosa Elementary in North Carolina are similar in many ways.
June 15, 2008
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Educators Outline Steps to Ensure Student Access During Economic Uncertainty
Federal, state, institutional and private parties need to rethink how they are helping — and even hindering low- and moderate-income students’ advancement in higher education, said panelists at an event at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development on Friday.
June 15, 2008
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Speaking of Student Retention
Fresh off a speaking engagement at the National Dialog on Student Retention Conference, a one-and-a-half-day conference held in Atlanta, Dr. Rodrick Moore, director of multicultural student affairs at the University of South Carolina, discusses the unique retention challenges minority students face in today’s college climate and shares key strategies for retaining this growing group of students.
June 12, 2008
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Board-certified Teachers Boost Student Scores
Schools looking to hire teachers should keep an eye out for those with national board certification.
June 11, 2008
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Upping the Numbers
Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.
June 11, 2008
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The Lawyer From Lafayette
Xavier University of Louisiana president, Dr. Norman Francis, celebrates 40 years at the helm of one of the nation’s top HBCUs.
June 11, 2008
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Preparing Students for the Job Hunt
Students need help before going to the Help Wanted ads.
June 11, 2008
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Canada To Apologize For Past Abuses of Native Children
Canada will apologize for a policy that forced native children into boarding schools in an effort over a century ago to “civilize” and assimilate the nation’s indigenous population into mainstream culture and religion, the Los Angeles Times recently reported.
June 10, 2008
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Black Males in a State of Emergency
Outreach efforts at The Ohio State University result in the increased retention of Black male students.
June 9, 2008
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Best & Brightest: Recent Graduate Beats the Odds to Foster a Better Future
Two hundred people had gathered in the auditorium to hear her speak, but Tiffany Brooks, a 2008 graduate of San Francisco State University, only saw one of them, her foster mother Doris Peeler-Brown.
June 5, 2008
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WVU Urged to Strengthen Graduate Programs Across the Board
Problems with record deficiencies, grading practices and inconsistent policies in West Virginia University’s master’s programs are not limited to the College of Business & Economics, said the man charged with strengthening those programs in the wake of a degree scandal involving Gov. Joe Manchin’s daughter.
June 5, 2008
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Banks Cut Off Wisconsin Two-year College Students’ Access to Loans
Several lenders say they will no longer give loans to students at Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges and 13 two-year colleges.
June 4, 2008
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HBCUs as Liberatory Agents
Black colleges maintained vital resources for sustaining the Black freedom struggle of the middle 20th century. Logistically, they were institutions with a pre-organized group of constituents, established leaders, networks and meeting space.
June 3, 2008
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U.S. State Department Reinstates Fulbright Scholarships to 7 Gaza Students
The United States has reinstated the Fulbright scholarships of seven Gaza Strip students blocked by Israel from leaving the Hamas-ruled territory, the State Department said Monday.
June 2, 2008
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Univ. of NC A&T Audit Shows $10K Misused
An annual audit of North Carolina A&T State University found 27 percent of the scholarships reserved for the Bookstore Scholarship Fund for needy students were awarded to relatives of university employees.
June 1, 2008
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Diversity Themes Feature Prominently at 30th Annual NISOD Conference
“We’re an open-door institution, but not enough African-American men are finding that door,” said Dr. Stephanie Bulger, explaining to NISOD Conference attendees about an ambitious plan the Wayne County Community College District has launched to enroll 1,000 Black men within the next five years.
May 29, 2008
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