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San Juan College Gets $2M to Help Native Students
FARMINGTON, N.M. — San Juan College, located in northwestern New Mexico, has been awarded more than $2 million in federal grants to help Native American students complete their degrees and to fund scholarships for students in the nursing program. College officials say the funding will be used to remove obstacles that Native American students face […]
November 21, 2016
Students
Cornel West Returning to Harvard Faculty
Dr. Cornel West—arguably one of the nation’s most visible Black public intellectuals—will rejoin the faculty of Harvard University.
November 20, 2016
Students
Guillermo: Trump’s Son-in-law Benefits from White Affirmative Action
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is an example of another kind of affirmative action—for wealthy Whites.
November 20, 2016
Students
Hiring Its Own Graduates Could be Key to HBCUs’ Survival
Who would be a better fit to transform the outcome of HBCUs than qualified HBCU graduates?
November 20, 2016
Students
Trump Agrees to $25M Settlement to Resolve Trump University Lawsuits
SAN DIEGO —President-elect Donald Trump agreed Friday to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University for real estate investors, averting a trial in a potentially embarrassing case that he had vowed during the campaign to keep fighting. The agreement came 10 days before jury selection was scheduled to begin in one […]
November 20, 2016
Students
University of New Mexico Professors Seeking Immigrant Student Protections
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A group of professors at the largest university in the nation’s most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students joining a movement of campuses around the country. Professors and instructors at the University of New Mexico delivered a letter Friday to the school’s president, Bob Frank, amid uncertainty from […]
November 20, 2016
Students
Wake Forest University Naming Dorm for Poet Maya Angelou
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest University is naming a new residence hall in honor of famous former faculty member Maya Angelou. The private university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, said Friday the five-story building now under construction will house more than 200 first-year students when it opens in January 2017. University President Nathan Hatch says Angelou […]
November 20, 2016
Students
Rutgers Confronts Ties to Slavery in Groundbreaking Report
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers University is confronting its historical ties to slavery. The New Jersey school founded in 1766 has compiled research that sheds new light on its beginnings, including an untold story of a slave who helped build the university’s iconic Old Queens administration building. The detailed report released Friday is published in […]
November 20, 2016
Students
Trump has Undocumented Students and Their Families Scrambling
By now a great majority of the country seems to have arrived at the stage of the worst political hangover any of us have ever experienced.
November 17, 2016
Students
Education Department Graduate Earnings Data Rekindles Controversy
New data shows graduates from public undergraduate certificate programs earn an average $9,000 more per year than counterparts at for-profit programs.
November 17, 2016
Students
Melania Trump’s College Experience Amended on Bio
America’s future First Lady Melania Trump “paused her studies” to pursue a modeling career in Milan and Paris. That’s according to her new biography on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition website, GreatAgain.gov. The biography states that Melania Trump “would pursue a degree at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, but paused her studies to advance her […]
November 17, 2016
Students
Mississippi Initiative to Help Former College Students Finish Degrees
JACKSON, Miss. —Leaders of Mississippi’s universities and community colleges say as many as 67,000 Mississippians who never graduated may have passed enough courses for a degree. They announced a plan Thursday to encourage those people to obtain degrees, as well as another 200,000 who dropped out short of the needed classwork over the last 15 […]
November 17, 2016
Students
College Students Protest Donald Trump’s Deportation Plans
College students at campuses around the United States marched and rallied Wednesday, urging administrators to protect students and employees against immigration action under a Donald Trump presidency. Rallying supporters on social media with the hashtag #SanctuaryCampus, organizers said actions were planned at more than 80 schools, including Vermont’s Middlebury College, where about 400 people gathered, […]
November 17, 2016
Students
Department of Education Officials Recount Gains as Uncertainty Looms
What the future holds for U.S. Department of Education initiatives and the higher education sector as a whole under a Trump administration is not yet clear.
November 16, 2016
Students
For-profit Colleges Decry ‘Demonization’ by Obama Administration
As speculation continued over how a Trump administration might treat for-profit colleges, supporters and critics of the institutions sparred Thursday over whether the institutions got a bum rap under the Obama administration.
November 16, 2016
Students
Experts: Trump’s Election May Slow Influx of International Students at U.S. Colleges
In the midst of concerns about President-elect Donald Trump, survey suggests that students who feel less welcome here may choose to study elsewhere.
November 15, 2016
Students
Partnership with Northern Arizona University Boosts Native Americans’ Educational Opportunities
Tribal colleges partner with Northern Arizona University to improve educational opportunities for Native Americans in the region.
November 15, 2016
Students
Merryman Says Respect for Sensitivities of LGBT Students Must Travel Well
Kent State associate professor says there’s not much information available about vetting chaperones and partnering organizations in regard to “study-abroad programs overall.”
November 15, 2016
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