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Section: Students
Students
Calling for More Diversity
Students’ work to create a diverse campus pays off with an increase in Hispanic enrollment and a stronger sense of pride and community.
February 18, 2009
Students
Creating a Sustainable Pipeline
After the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came under fire for a lack of diversity among its tenured faculty, the school’s administration is taking steps to ensure it is welcoming to faculty of color.
February 17, 2009
Students
Man sues LA college over anti-gay-marriage speech
A community college student has filed a lawsuit claiming a public speaking professor berated him and refused to let him finish a speech opposing same-sex marriage.
February 16, 2009
Students
Hispanics in Health Care to Get Scholarships
Ten health professional students pursuing health-care careers in California will receive $5,000 and $2,000 scholarships today (Feb. 11) from the National Hispanic Health Foundation at a gala in Sacramento.
February 10, 2009
Students
Black Males Achieving More on College Campuses
Colleges applying similar techniques to reach and keep Hispanic males.
February 10, 2009
Students
Chief Diversity Officers: Different Models for Success
“Someone once told me diversity work wasn’t rocket science. If only it was that easy.”
February 9, 2009
Students
At 100, NAACP Still Kicking
When leaders of the NAACP gather this month to formally begin a year-long recognition of 100 years of civil rights work, they’ll be talking as much about the organization’s future as they will be honoring its past.
February 4, 2009
Students
Black Men on Campus: What the Media Do Not Show Us
Black male college students feel pressured to fulfill media-spun social expectations to be overly sexual, aggressive and athletic in college.
February 4, 2009
Students
Muslim Students Increasingly Find Contentment at a Catholic University
When Zeina Abusoud began as director of residence life at Benedictine University a decade ago, the number of Muslim students attending the Catholic institution in Illinois was scant.
February 3, 2009
Students
Bowie State University Receives Its Record Pledge
Bowie State University recently received a $1 million pledge from alum and businessman William R. Teel, Jr. “The million dollar gift is the most ever for Bowie State University that has been contributed at one time,” says the public historically Black university’s spokeswoman Rochelle Daniel. The university is in the midst of its largest fundraising […]
February 2, 2009
Students
Tenn. State Students Alarmed by Planned Tuition Increase
Beginning fall 2009, Tennessee State University students will pay for every hour of coursework they intend to take, up to the 21-hour maximum overload.
February 2, 2009
Students
With Economic Slump, Fewer Students Expected to Enroll in Black Colleges
While their counterparts are seeing unprecedented numbers of applications, many historically Black colleges and universities aren’t seeing an increase at all.
January 29, 2009
Students
Coming Soon: Cash for College Students’ Good Grades
For the past several years economists and educators have been studying the impact of incentives — monetary and other valuable gifts — on student performance. Now a recently launched Web site, GradeFund, takes the idea of incentives and aims to utilize them as a practical solution for paying for college.
January 29, 2009
Students
Film Documents Different View of Black Life in Cuba
Robin Hayes felt out of place as a Yale graduate student.
January 28, 2009
Students
Perspectives: Racial Identity Confuses the Issue of Entitlements
In the Nov. 27, 2008 edition of Diverse, Dr. Betty Jeanne Taylor recounts in the “Lastword” a friendly dialogue with a Black student worker in the library at her institution.
January 27, 2009
Students
College Financial Aid System Facing Stiff Test
Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam.
January 25, 2009
Students
Jefferson, Not Hemings, Inspiration for Top Book Award
It would be easy to assume that a desire to document an enslaved woman’s rightful place in history started Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed down the path that led to her recent triumph as the winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction.
January 21, 2009
Students
BATTLE OF THE WILLS
In Georgia, the budget crunch has prompted one state senator to propose closing some public colleges, but not the ones you think.
January 21, 2009
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