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Kansas University Professor Measures the Impact of Desegregation
During a recent session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, Dr. Argun Saatcioglu, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy and an adjunct assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, asserted that desegregation increased schools’ contribution to minority success.
September 1, 2008
Students
IU Offers Support for American Indian Group
Indiana University administrators are working to find a new space and director for a support group for American Indian students weeks after student leaders accused IU of not supporting the group.
September 1, 2008
Students
Virginia Tech to Increase Investment in Diversity
Virginia Tech plans to invest nearly $1 million over the next five years to increase ethnic diversity on campus.
September 1, 2008
Students
The Tom Joyner Foundation Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary
Over the last 10 years, radio personality Tom Joyner and his foundation have raised more than $55 million dollars, and all of the proceeds have been dedicated to helping students start and finish their educations at historically Black colleges and universities.
August 27, 2008
Students
Report Highlights Latino Education Concerns
Education is a key issue to Hispanic Americans, according to a preliminary report released at the Democratic National Convention by groups hoping to bring attention to the concerns of the nation’s fastest-growing minority.
August 26, 2008
Students
When It Comes To Funding, Community Colleges Have to Emulate Four-Year Schools
California’s community colleges, the largest higher education system in the nation, have launched a three-year campaign to create a $100 million endowment for scholarships.
August 25, 2008
Students
Reservation Gets Help From Engineering Students
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a nonprofit organization that designs and implements sustainable engineering projects for communities, has embarked on a project to assist the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, its first long-term domestic project, said UW-Madison in a recent news release.
August 24, 2008
Students
United Tribes Powwow Committee Hosts Annual Celebration
The United Tribes Powwow Committee is once against hosting one of the longest-running contest powwows in the country.
August 24, 2008
Students
Weak Economy Spurs Growth for Community Colleges
Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.
August 21, 2008
Students
Survey Indicates Value of Education Varies Among Ethnic Groups
According to the new study “How America Pays for College,” only 54 percent of Hispanic parents surveyed said that college is an investment in a child’s future versus 81 percent of Whites and 85 percent of Blacks.
August 20, 2008
Students
Getting to Know Sandeep Junnarkar
With the Internet becoming a major source of news and advertising over the past decade, news organizations are increasingly catering to consumers who favor online media over print publications.
August 20, 2008
Students
Financially Struggling College Students Turn to Food Banks
For years, the small University District pantry, just blocks from the University of Washington, has offered help to the working poor and single parents in this neighborhood of campus rentals.
August 20, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
The CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has received $9.6 MILLION from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to develop an honors program in legal studies to provide students from diverse backgrounds the training and education necessary for law school admission. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’s Teachers College has received a $500,000 grant from the Lumina […]
August 20, 2008
Students
Arizona Law Has Undocumented Immigrants Dropping Out of College
Changing laws have made life tougher for undocumented immigrants in Arizona, including young people giving up dreams of college and better lives because they are unable to pay out-of-state tuition as required by voters.
August 17, 2008
Students
A Foot In Two Worlds
I appreciate the opportunity to be asked to participate in Diverse¡¯s ¡°The Academy Speaks¡± blog series but I have to admit that I am hesitant about what I have to offer.
August 12, 2008
Students
A Music Scholar Remembers Isaac Hayes
Dr. William Banfield, a professor at the Berklee College of Music, says of Isaac Hayes: “At Stax, he became an artist and further defined and refined Black music and then represented Black music as kind of a musical prince of our culture at a critical time when Black music was very influential to the identity of our people.”
August 11, 2008
Students
Appeals Court Orders New Trial in FAMU Hazing Case
An appeals court on Friday ordered a third trial for two Florida A&M fraternity brothers accused of beating another student so hard that he had to have surgery on his buttocks.
August 10, 2008
Students
AKAs Celebrate 100 Years of Sisterhood and Service
The nation’s capital was a sea of pink and green as an estimated 20,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha converged upon Washington, D.C., in July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s largest and oldest Black sorority. Founded on the campus of Howard University in 1908, and boasting 200,000 members and 975 chapters worldwide, […]
August 6, 2008
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