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Section: Students

Survey Says … Students Don’t See Eye to Eye

Minority college students say access to campus computer labs and improved campus security are among the things that make for a satisfying undergraduate experience. Their White counterparts, however, don’t share those priorities. Also, male and female students appear to have varied priorities, according to results of a student survey conducted by Noel Levitz, a consulting firm for higher education.

January 31, 2007

Scholars Weigh in On College Parties That Mock Black Stereotypes

From Connecticut to Colorado, “gangsta” theme parties thrown by whites are drawing the ire of college officials and heated complaints from Black and White students who say the antics conjure the worst racial stereotypes.

January 31, 2007

Proposed Pell Grant Increase ‘Great News’ For Low-Income Students

Two weeks after voting to cut student loan interest rates, the U.S. House of Representatives is moving quickly to address another key element of college affordability: the maximum Pell Grant for needy students.

January 30, 2007

Clemson University Probes Racist Party

CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University President James Barker on Tuesday decried a party where White students mocked Black stereotypes by drinking malt liquor and at least one student dressed in black face.

January 30, 2007

Study: Black, Hispanic Children Suffer Bleak Living Conditions

Living conditions experienced by children in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas continues to show a depressing picture for Black and Hispanic children, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health. Another study shows Whites less trusting of foreign-born doctors than Blacks.

January 29, 2007

College Course In Gullah at USC-Beaufort Is Nation’s First

BEAUFORT, S.C. Research on Gullah culture is a little skimpy, according to one local professor, but he’s hoping to change all that through a class that explores the history of a culture that still lives through the singsong pidgin and practices on nearby St. Helena Island.

January 29, 2007

Message To College Papers: Leave Racial Satire Alone

Recent parodies of Blacks and Asians in college newspapers in the name of satire have been met with condemnation, including journalism scholars who say free-thinking future journalists need to “grow up and put on their thinking caps.”

January 28, 2007

MLK Day Party With Malt Liquor, Faux Gang Apparel Causes Uproar on Texas Campus

STEPHENVILLE, Texas Known for its award-winning rodeo teams, Tarleton State University is a usually quiet campus nestled in the state’s biggest dairy community. But that wasn’t the case Thursday, a day after more than 400 people attended a campus meeting to discuss a Martin Luther King Jr. party last week that many here found racially offensive.

January 25, 2007

‘Stomp the Yard’ A Success in the Box Office, But Drawing Criticism on Campus

“Stomp the Yard,” the No. 1 box office film for two weekends running, may be popular among the general public, but raises concerns among active Black Greeks.

January 25, 2007

Congressional Dilemma: Cut Loan Interest Rates

The first Democrat-controlled Congress since 1994 is already struggling with a nagging issue: Whether to focus on cutting student loan interest rates as promised or increasing need-based grant assistance for low-income students.

January 24, 2007

Project Town Gown

The neighborhood surrounding Rhodes College suffers from high infant mortality rates, among other ills; but the college refuses to stand by and watch its community deteriorate.

January 24, 2007

U.S. Sens. Obama, Kennedy Propose Pell Grant Increase

Add U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to the list of those who want the new Democrat-controlled Congress to make major improvements in federal financial aid policy for low-income students.

January 23, 2007

House Votes To Cut Student Loan Interest Rates Over White House Objection

After pledging early action on higher education in 2007, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a plan to cut student loan interest rates by half over a five-year period despite strong White House opposition.

January 16, 2007

Dillard Students Told to Give Back FEMA Money

Hundreds of Dillard University dormitory residents who received assistance payments from the federal government after Hurricane Katrina are being asked to repay the money because, according to federal officials, they were ineligible for the aid.

January 16, 2007

About 1 In 4 Newer Students At N.C. A&T On Probation, Suspension

GREENSBORO, N.C. About one in four undergraduate students who enrolled at North Carolina A&T in the fall is now on academic probation or suspension for either failing or not making adequate progress toward graduation.

January 14, 2007

UI Officials to Talk With Three Students About Online Threats To American Indians

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. University of Illinois officials said this week they plan to talk to at least three students they believe may be behind threats against an American Indian student. The threats were posted on a Web page about the school’s mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

January 11, 2007

Students to Congress: Ease the Financial Burden

WASHINGTON, D.C. As the highlight of College Affordability Day of Action, college students used a Capitol Hill news conference on Thursday to call on the U.S. Congress to make college more affordable by cutting student interest rates in half and increasing the maximum Pell Grant award.

January 11, 2007

Teeing Off With Bill Dickey

In 1982, a Black man hitting the links in Phoenix was something of a rare site…

January 10, 2007