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REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
October 14, 2009
Students
College Cutbacks Make it Harder to Earn Degrees
Deep budget cuts, which force colleges and universities to eliminate courses, are likely to prolong the time and increase the expense for students to earn their degrees.
October 13, 2009
Patrick Callan
Students
Family, Education Struggles Motivate Immigration Reform Activism
Latino students, including Georgetown University freshman Alma Huerta, are seeking to revive national immigration reform debate.
October 13, 2009
Members of Georgetown University’s MEChA organization
Students
Nation’s Pupils Find Few Black Men To Call Mister
Black male students at Cheyney University are among the newest recruits to the Call Me MISTER teaching program, which seeks to dramatically increase the number of African-American men teaching in U.S. public schools.
October 11, 2009
Dr. Roy Jones
Students
UMass-Amherst Journalism Professor Teaches Students To Be Culturally Sensitive
Journalism professors say it’s imperative to sensitize future journalists to racial issues so that they can adequately report on hot-button topics such as this summer’s arrest of Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a White police officer.
October 7, 2009
Nick McBride
Students
Innovative Retention Policies Highlighted in New York Meeting
More than 500 college and university officials learn winning student retention strategies at national symposium last week in Buffalo, N.Y.
October 5, 2009
Monica Michalski
Students
COMMITTED TO CONSERVATION
Despite budget constraints and a backlog of maintenance projects, HBCUs strive to implement green principles on their campuses.
September 30, 2009
Students
SPECTRUM: FROM DESPAIR TO DISCOVERY
Dr. Raul Cuero was one of 10 children born in abject poverty in Buenaventura, Colombia, to parents who could not read and write. Lacking books, he indulged his curiosity by investigating the creatures around him.
September 30, 2009
Students
Black College Advocate Questions Funding Formula for Southern University Campuses
While serving as an appointee on a panel examining ways to overhaul Louisiana public college systems, the president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education questioned whether state funding practices are fair to the historically Black schools
September 30, 2009
Lezli Baskerville
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Developmental Education – An Investment We Cannot Afford NOT To Make
Despite the escalating numbers of students who need developmental work, many critics of developmental education blame the K-12 school system for not preparing students for college-level work.
September 16, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHYNEWS: WHEN PERCEPTION BECOMES REALITY
Survey reveals what Mexican-American students expect to achieve does not coincide with their goals.
September 16, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Will They Come?
Colleges are anxious to see if new recruiting and retention efforts can stem rising tide of ‘economic dropouts.’
September 16, 2009
Students
AWARDING EXCELLENCE
The Examples of Excelencia, sponsored by Excelencia in Education, is the only national program to identify programs with evidence of effectiveness in accelerating Latino student success at the associate, baccalaureate and graduate levels.
September 16, 2009
Students
SPECTRUM : A BRIDGE TO THE COMMUNITY
Carolina A. Hernandez arrived at Lehigh University eight years ago to help connect the school with the surrounding neighborhoods, mainly lowincome Spanish-speaking residents.
September 16, 2009
Students
College Students are Health Care’s Invisible Minority
Close to 5 million students don’t have health insurance, report says.
September 16, 2009
Students
Developmental Education: An Investment We Cannot Afford NOT To Make
The Kiss of Death? An Alternative View of College Remediation, by Cliff Adelman; No One to Waste, by Bob Mc- Cabe; and Salvage, Redirection, or Custody: Remedial Education in the Community Junior College, by John Roueche — look no further than these titles to sense the commitment and controversy surrounding developmental education.
September 16, 2009
Students
Professional Appoitments
DR. WILLIAM BYNUM JR. has been named vice president for student services at Morehouse College (Ga.). He previously served as vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Bynum earned a bachelor’s from Davidson College and a master’s and doctorate from Duke University. DR. JAME’L HODGES is director of multicultural […]
September 16, 2009
Students
Will They Come?
Colleges are anxious to see if new recruiting and retention efforts can stem rising tide of ‘economic dropouts.’
September 16, 2009
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