Search | The EDU Ledger

Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Section: Students

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap

Overcoming the Black-White Achievement Gap Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement By John U. Ogbu Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., 2003352 pp., $69.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8058-4515-1, $32.50 paper, ISBN 0-8058-4516-XBy Ronald Roach The affirmative action debate brought on by the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the reverse discrimination lawsuits filed […]

April 23, 2003

Sallie Mae Offers Financial Aid Analysis on Web Site

Sallie Mae Offers Financial Aid Analysis on Web SiteBy Ronald Roach This spring, college-bound high-school seniors will be getting financial aid award letters from the schools at which they have been accepted. While these letters may seem straightforward, students and parents should be taking a close look at their contents, experts say. The Student Loan […]

April 23, 2003

University of Arkansas Earmarks $64 Million For Doctoral Fellowships

University of Arkansas Earmarks $64 Million For Doctoral Fellowships FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Academic departments at the University of Arkansas celebrated spring with the bloom of $64 million in new funding for graduate fellowships. The money is part of a $300 million gift the school received last year from the Walton Family Foundation, $100 million of which […]

April 23, 2003

Bill to Help Active Military Personnel With Student Loans, Tuition

Bill to Help Active Military Personnel With Student Loans, TuitionBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month approved a bill to help active-duty military who were attending college or paying off student loans prior to their call to active duty in the Persian Gulf. For those with loan payments, the Higher Education […]

April 23, 2003

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’ April 1st started out as a rainy, dreary day but that didn’t dampen the spirits of all of the people — young and old — who descended on the U.S. Supreme Court, carrying signs and banners, in support of affirmative action. Student and alumni associations representing a variety of colleges and universities […]

April 23, 2003

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case

Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case WashingtonA panel of legal scholars and social science experts that have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of maintaining the University of Michigan’s affirmative action programs laid out the legal framework for allowing the continuation of race-conscious programs to reporters at a press briefing in […]

April 9, 2003

Missouri Journalism School to Admit Freshmen for the First Time

Missouri Journalism School to Admit Freshmen for the First Time COLUMBIA, Mo.For the first time in its 93-year history, the Missouri School of Journalism will admit some students directly from high school this spring. In the fall, the journalism school also will begin admitting pre-journalism students already enrolled in the University of Missouri-Columbia’s honors college […]

April 9, 2003

Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World

Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World Our Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars edition gives us an opportunity this time every year to reflect on the status of the student-athlete. A look at abysmal graduation rates of college athletes coupled with those standout scholars who are able to manage their studies and sports […]

April 9, 2003

Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew

Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew By Julianne Malveaux The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report last month, “College Affordability in Jeopardy,” that showed public colleges “continue to become less affordable for students and families.” According to the independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit center, 16 states increased tuition and […]

March 26, 2003

Living Out a Dream — Abroad

Living Out a Dream — Abroad Law professor Catherine Powell takes interest in human rights to Israel By Kendra Hamilton The faint of heart might think Catherine Powell, professor of law at New York’s Fordham University and former executive director of Columbia University’s Human Rights Institute, has chosen an odd location to bear her first […]

March 26, 2003

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad Student

Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad StudentJames McLurkin recipient of annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventivenessBy Ronald Roach It’s not common that graduate school research brings national attention and prestigious awards to doctoral candidates. For James McLurkin, however, his work in robotics has won widespread recognition, most recently a prestigious student inventor’s prize […]

March 26, 2003

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology Program

Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology ProgramBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTON, D.C.Microsoft has announced a $15 million software grant to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) technology initiative, which is a multi-year effort to raise more than $100 million to upgrade technology at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The software grant will be distributed […]

March 26, 2003

Paris Noir

Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]

March 26, 2003

Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students

Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students PITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering (SOE) is implementing a program that will help minority and disadvantaged students attain a stronger educational background and provide them with positive role models. Building on Pitt’s 30-year history of diversity efforts, Dr. Sylvanus Nwosu, SOE’s assistant […]

March 26, 2003

Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum

Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum RESTON, Va.The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) recently selected three medical schools to test a new curriculum designed to integrate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches into mainstream medical school curricula. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and the University of […]

March 26, 2003

Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship Program

Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship ProgramORLANDO, Fla.Gov. Jeb Bush and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) have joined forces to create a film scholarship program for Florida’s Black college students. As part of the program, Bethune-Cookman College will partner with the University of Central Florida (UCF) for a new five-year film degree program, […]

March 26, 2003

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]

March 26, 2003

Kenyan Named Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar

Kenyan Named Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar LEXINGTON, Va.Star student and athlete Michael Lokale says his life has been filled with many blessings. And now, as the Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar, the first classman is looking forward to yet another. As one of only two Kenyans selected from a pool of more […]

March 26, 2003