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Getting to Know: Dr. Ernest J. Wilson

It’s no exaggeration to say that Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III brings a dazzling breadth of academic and public affairs experience to the deanship of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

December 12, 2007

Unmasking the Model Minority Myth

Widely considered as overachievers, Asian students’ academic struggles are often downplayed, ignored.

December 12, 2007

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When Diversity is Tradition

It’s not about offering a good orientation program, or fulfilling a course credit or two.

December 12, 2007

Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA

Will “outsourced” affirmative action prove long lasting?

December 12, 2007

Best & Brightest: Starting a Business Before Graduation, Not After

With his e-newsletter, the Networking Loop, Christopher Pollock, a third-year business student at Bowie State University, is taking the oft-repeated saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” to the Internet and becoming the essential link that helps small business owners connect.

December 10, 2007

Out of Line

Northeastern State University officials relent after telling American Indian graduates to remove feathers and other items at graduation. In time for the Dec. 15 commencement, there are new guidelines allowing Natives to wear tribal insignia.

December 6, 2007

School Bans Students Without Mumps Shots

The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students Thursday that they’re being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps. Campus officials provided student lists to professors and were trying to reach about 50 on-campus residents to make sure they have another place to go. The 426 […]

December 5, 2007

Stanford ‘Invests’ In Faculty Diversity

Stanford University has developed a $4.5 million program to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars on the academic profession to 36 doctoral candidates over the next four years as part of an effort to prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for a career in academia.

December 3, 2007

UT at San Antonio Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students.

December 3, 2007

UTSA Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students. The university pulled “African American Political Thought” from the spring semester because of a lack of student interest in the black […]

December 3, 2007

Public School Crime Down, But It’s Still More Dangerous For Black, Hispanic Children

The percentage of public schools experiencing incidents of crime was lower in 2005 than in 2003. In 2003, 65 percent of schools reported crimes to the police compared to 61 percent of schools in 2005, the latest year analyzed by the National Center for Education Statistics.

December 3, 2007

In Brief: UT Teaching Hospital Considers Turning Away Undocumented Cancer Patients

The University of Texas Medical Branch may stop offering cancer care to indigent and undocumented immigrants in order to cut costs; University of Buffalo researcher’s work leads to dismissal of Tulsa ‘Race Riot’ charges; West Virginia rethinks scholarship leave of absence.

December 3, 2007

SC’s 16 Tech Schools, University of South Carolina Start Program to Ease Student Transfers

COLUMBIA, S.C. Students at the state’s 16 technical colleges will be able to more easily transfer to the University of South Carolina under an agreement approved Thursday. The program will go into effect next fall and could attract up to 500 students in the first year, officials said. “There’s a wonderful Southern saying, ‘Y’all come!’ […]

November 29, 2007

Diversity Debate Shakes Up Quiet Liberal Arts Campus

GRANVILLE, Ohio Nooses on a poster advertising a Halloween singing concert set off two weeks of debate and protest at Denison University, a largely White liberal arts campus. The college choir, which had invited students to “come hang with us,” removed the posters, canceled the concert and turned the event into a forum on discrimination. But some students say the ad was the last straw and exposed an ugly side to this expensive university situated in a quaint central Ohio town.

November 29, 2007

New Choice Requirement on Student Loans May Break Near-monopoly Lenders Have at 55 Schools

Colleges and universities, including minority- serving institutions, will have to include at least three different funding sources on any “preferred lender list” they give to prospective student borrowers, under rules being proposed by the U.S. Department of Education.

November 28, 2007

Tribal Colleges: The Model For Cultural- and Community-based Education Reform

Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling’s Commission’s report, “A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education” denotes much-needed reforms in higher education. The report, which emphasizes that all Americans need access to higher education to thrive in today’s global economy, highlights the needs of the Black, Hispanic and low-income communities, but it fails to address those of American Indians.

November 28, 2007

Public University Associations Unveil A New Web Tool For Prospective Students

NEW YORK A partnership between the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has launched College Portrait, a new comprehensive Web resource to help prospective college students and their families compare and contrast U.S. public colleges and universities.

November 28, 2007

Growth In Minority Student Enrollment Gives Rise To More MSIs

More minority undergraduate students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities than ever before, and more of them are choosing minority-serving institutions such as historically Black colleges and universities, Asian-serving institutions and Hispanic-serving institutions.

November 27, 2007