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New Test Prep Services Cater to Minority Students
More minority students (40 percent of all test-takers nationally) took the Scholastic Aptitude Test in 2007 than ever.
October 16, 2007
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Ohio University To Name Residence Hall After First Black Journalism Grad
ATHENS, Ohio Ohio University says it will honor its first Black journalism graduate by dedicating a new residence hall in his name on Friday.
October 16, 2007
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University of Kentucky Board Condemns Racially Charged Cartoon
LEXINGTON, Ky. The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees condemned a racially charged editorial cartoon that appeared in the student newspaper.
October 16, 2007
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Arizona State Sees Enrollment Approaching 100,000 in 15 Years
PHOENIX Arizona State University officials are bracing for the day that ASU’s enrollment swells to nearly 100,000.
October 16, 2007
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Police Investigating Racial Graffiti Found at Rider University
TRENTON N.J. Police on Tuesday were investigating who was behind racial graffiti found scrawled inside a residence hall at Rider University’s campus in Lawrenceville.
October 16, 2007
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Study: Companies Don’t Spend Enough Time Recruiting at HBCUs
The strategies Fortune 400 companies and government agencies use when looking to recruit new employees from historically Black colleges and universities differ from those they use for predominantly White institutions.
October 15, 2007
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Best & Brightest: An Immigrant’s Story From a Community College to Cornell
It was a bit unsettling, all the moving around Julio Torres did as a child, from the Dominican Republic, to Puerto Rico, to live with a grandmother; to the United States, to live with an aunt.
October 15, 2007
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Lawmakers Hammer Federal Officials Over Jena 6 Case
WASHINGTON Democratic lawmakers denounced federal authorities Tuesday for not intervening in the highly publicized case of six Black high school students charged with the beating of a White student, citing racist noose-hanging incidents far beyond the attack in the small Louisiana town of Jena.
October 15, 2007
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Massachusetts Casino Debate Includes Warnings That Students Face Chance of Gambling Addiction
BOSTON Harrah’s Entertainment pitched a proposed Rhode Island casino to college students as a place “to have fun when they’re taking a break from studying.”
October 15, 2007
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Study: Iowa Students Rely More on Loans to Fund Tuition
DES MOINES Iowa Iowa’s college students are relying more on student loans and less on grants to cover tuition, according to a new report by the Iowa College Student Aid Commission.
October 14, 2007
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Southern University’s Interim Chancellor Trying to Retain Students
BATON ROUGE La. Margaret Ambrose may only be the “interim” chancellor of Southern University, but that does not mean she is just keeping a seat warm.
October 14, 2007
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Baby Boomlet Continues to Boost Enrollment at Washington State Universities
SEATTLE Baby boomers continue to send record numbers of their children to Washington’s public four-year universities, where enrollment is up on most campuses again this year.
October 14, 2007
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Perspectives: Using White Privilege To Rank Black Colleges
Just over a month ago, days after U.S. News & World Report released the “America’s Best Colleges” rankings, editor Brian Kelly was in Little Rock, Ark., to lecture at the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas.
October 13, 2007
Students
Study Notes College-access Barriers Faced By Asian American Students
Despite the pervasive “model-minority” myth of overachieving Asian Americans easily getting into U.S. colleges and universities, a study at the University of California, Los Angeles has found that more Asian American students are facing problems in accessing higher education opportunities than ever before.
October 10, 2007
Students
George Washington Students Unite After Fake Anti-Muslim Fliers Are Posted
Students at The George Washington University claiming responsibility for anti-Muslim fliers posted around campus this week say their intent was to expose, in a hyperbolic fashion, Islamophobic racism and not to perpetrate it.
October 10, 2007
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New Guide to Find Most Gay-friendly Campuses
Colleges and universities are increasingly finding ways to provide safe and welcoming environments to students of all sexual orientations.
October 9, 2007
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Group Wants Hate-crime Inquiry into Mexican Flag Incident at the University of New Mexico
ALBUQUERQUE The New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens has asked state and federal officials to investigate a University of New Mexico student who is accused of tearing down a Mexican flag.
October 9, 2007
Students
Cartoon in UK’s College Newspaper Spurs Controversy
LEXINGTON, Ky. An editorial cartoon depicting a bare-chested Black student on an auction block that ran in the University of Kentucky’s student newspaper on Friday has sparked student protest.
October 7, 2007
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