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Innovations 2008 Conference Highlights Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Themes
Last week, 2,100 community college faculty, administrators and advocates gathered in the mile high city for the League for Innovation in the Community College’s Innovations 2008 Conference, hosted by the Community College of Denver.
March 12, 2008
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NASPA Addresses Collegiate Black Male Performance
In a qualitative study examining the lives of 20 collegiate Black males, Iowa State University graduate student researchers determined the six reasons why Black males struggle at predominately White institutions: isolation, the lack of positive images, the lack of preparation, financial factors, the lack of mentors and pride.
March 12, 2008
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Michigan Universities Asked To Help Foster Youth With Financial Aid
This June, when foster youth in Michigan graduate from high school and apply for federal higher education funds, they’ll find that money is painfully tight.
March 11, 2008
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Study: Hazing Still a Problem on Campus
Virtually every college bans hazing, but more than half of college students belonging to campus organizations say they have experienced it in places from the glee club to the fraternity house, according to a new study.
March 11, 2008
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NASPA Session Tackles Hazing Problem Among Black Greeks
Black Greek fraternity members feel hazing solidifies their loyalty to their organization and builds “character and discipline,” according to study results presented to a packed session at the 90th annual NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference.
March 10, 2008
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A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
Spelman President Beverly Daniel Tatum recently spoke with Diverse about Spelman’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the relevance of HBCUs and more.
March 10, 2008
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Tragedy Strikes Two Campuses, Threatens One
An Auburn University student was found shot to death on a highway and the University of North Carolina student body president was found fatally shot on a Chapel Hill, N.C. street. Meanwhile, eight dorms at the University of California, Davis were evacuated Wednesday night and a student was arrested after explosives were found in a dorm room.
March 6, 2008
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UW Professors See Problems With How Math Is Taught
Sixty University of Washington professors have signed a letter to the Legislature saying that many college freshmen can’t solve math problems, even at a middle-school level.
March 5, 2008
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Emergency Notification in an instant
Following the recent campus shootings, universities are seeking the most effective and multifaceted electronic alert systems from a host of IT companies.
March 4, 2008
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Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’
With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.
March 4, 2008
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Expanding the Cultural Reach Of Environmentalism Through Diversity
In the fall of 2005, Yale graduate student Emily Enderle was asking some uncomfortable questions about faculty diversity at the university’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
March 4, 2008
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Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges
Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.
March 4, 2008
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Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
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University of Rochester Students Demand More Faculty Diversity
Students at the University of Rochester are demanding that university officials hire more faculty members from underrepresented groups, insisting that the administrators spend less time strategizing about diversity and make it a reality.
March 3, 2008
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Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
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4 Charged in Temple U. Beating Outside Jewish Fraternity
Four Temple University students face charges related to the beating of a man outside a Jewish fraternity on the Philadelphia campus, an attack police categorized as a hate crime.
March 2, 2008
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Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment
Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.
February 26, 2008
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Three Campus Security Scares On Tuesday
Classes were canceled and a small private college went on lockdown Tuesday as police searched for a man who was seen with a gun on campus, officials said.
February 26, 2008
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