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Inspire Scholarships Help Boost Delaware State’s In-State Enrollment
This school year, Delaware State’s in-state freshman student enrollment is up 43 percent to 433 from 302, the first significant enrollment turnaround in six years, school officials say.
December 1, 2011
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Southern University System’s Online Program To Expand
Southern System President Ronald Mason Jr. said the project — gotosouthernuniversityonline.com — will help Southern attract more out-of-state and older, nontraditional students.
November 30, 2011
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Experts: Streamlining Employee Benefits, Increasing Student Credit Loads Among Ways to Reduce College Costs
The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training heard expert testimony Wednesday on how colleges and universities can reduce institutional costs and lower student tuition.
November 30, 2011
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Review Shows Scholarships Awarded to Students Attending For-profit Colleges
A review of public records by the Lexington Herald-Leader found that nearly 8 percent of need-based student aid goes to for-profit colleges.
November 29, 2011
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Tribal College ‘Beats the Odds’ to Find Academic Success
In 2011, the college awarded 204 diplomas and certificates, 155 in 2010 and 133 in 2009.
November 29, 2011
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Death of FAMU Band Member Puts Other Universities on Notice
With FAMU’s internationally known “Marching 100” band suspended for an indefinite period, presidents, student life officials and band directors at many schools say they are taking new steps to reinforce their anti-hazing policies.
November 29, 2011
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Higher Education Leaders Urged to Improve Data Collection for College Completion Efforts
A new report recommends that higher education leaders use historical data to gauge graduation rates among diverse student groups for whom graduation is less likely so that institutional improvements can be made to help those students defy the odds.
November 28, 2011
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A Master Teacher Leads the Bronx Community College
The new Bronx Community College President Carole Berotte Joseph’s lifelong commitment to teaching is the key to her success.
November 28, 2011
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Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program
Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.
November 22, 2011
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Occupy Protests Spread to U.S. College Campuses
Students at more than 120 universities have participated in protests, ranging   from students at elite private Ivy League colleges to those who attend state or community colleges full-time.
November 21, 2011
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Deadline Looming for More Federal Budget Cuts
As a high-profile congressional “super committee” nears final deliberations on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan, higher education advocates are launching mobilization efforts to protect programs promoting college access for low-income students and students of color.
November 20, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University
The nation’s most visible Black intellectual, Dr. Cornel Ronald West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary — an institution where he first began his teaching career as an assistant professor some 35 years ago.
November 17, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University for UTSA
The nation’s most visible Black intellectual, Dr. Cornel Ronald West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary — an institution where he first began his teaching career as an assistant professor some 35 years ago.
November 17, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University
Dr. Cornel West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
November 17, 2011
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APLU Panel Addresses Challenges of Minorities Enrolled in STEM Fields
Despite growing public awareness and collective efforts to increase the ranks of U.S. minority college students seeking degrees in STEM fields, their supporters and advocates still struggle with many of the same issues today as they did several decades ago, a panel of educators says.
November 14, 2011
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Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner Defends Southern University Action
The state commissioner of higher education has defended Southern University declaring a financial emergency.
November 10, 2011
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Policy Summit: U.S. Higher Education Should Focus More on Employability
The national push to get more students to complete college in the U.S. should be tied to making students employable upon graduation, expert panelists urged during a Washington policy summit Thursday.
November 10, 2011
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Tuskegee University Launching Ambitious Capital Campaign
Tuskegee University, a historically Black private university in Tuskegee, Alabama, has announced that it is launching the largest capital campaigns in its 130-year history.
November 8, 2011
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