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A Master Teacher Leads the Bronx Community College
The new Bronx Community College President Carole Berotte Joseph’s lifelong commitment to teaching is the key to her success.
November 28, 2011
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Osher Scholars Get Much-Needed Assist From Community College Scholarship Program
Known as Osher Scholars, the neediest students at the 112 community colleges in the nation’s most populous state are receiving scholarships worth up to $1,000 for textbooks, lab fees and other instructional supplies.
November 22, 2011
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Occupy Protests Spread to U.S. College Campuses
Students at more than 120 universities have participated in protests, ranging   from students at elite private Ivy League colleges to those who attend state or community colleges full-time.
November 21, 2011
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Deadline Looming for More Federal Budget Cuts
As a high-profile congressional “super committee” nears final deliberations on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan, higher education advocates are launching mobilization efforts to protect programs promoting college access for low-income students and students of color.
November 20, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University
The nation’s most visible Black intellectual, Dr. Cornel Ronald West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary — an institution where he first began his teaching career as an assistant professor some 35 years ago.
November 17, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University for UTSA
The nation’s most visible Black intellectual, Dr. Cornel Ronald West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary — an institution where he first began his teaching career as an assistant professor some 35 years ago.
November 17, 2011
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Cornel West to Leave Princeton University
Dr. Cornel West is leaving his endowed professorship at Princeton University in July to become a professor of philosophy and Christian practices at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
November 17, 2011
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APLU Panel Addresses Challenges of Minorities Enrolled in STEM Fields
Despite growing public awareness and collective efforts to increase the ranks of U.S. minority college students seeking degrees in STEM fields, their supporters and advocates still struggle with many of the same issues today as they did several decades ago, a panel of educators says.
November 14, 2011
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Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner Defends Southern University Action
The state commissioner of higher education has defended Southern University declaring a financial emergency.
November 10, 2011
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Policy Summit: U.S. Higher Education Should Focus More on Employability
The national push to get more students to complete college in the U.S. should be tied to making students employable upon graduation, expert panelists urged during a Washington policy summit Thursday.
November 10, 2011
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Tuskegee University Launching Ambitious Capital Campaign
Tuskegee University, a historically Black private university in Tuskegee, Alabama, has announced that it is launching the largest capital campaigns in its 130-year history.
November 8, 2011
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Lumina Foundation Launches Latino College Completion Initiative
The Lumina Foundation is giving organizations and colleges that are building a pipeline of Latino students and promoting college completion a boost with a four-year, $600,000 grant for each institution.
November 7, 2011
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Analysis: Is Student-loan-driven Education Bubble Next?
Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad?
November 6, 2011
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Student Debt on the Rise Again
Two of every three college seniors graduated with loan debt in 2010, with the typical borrower owing $25,250 and students at some historically Black institutions facing higher repayments, new research shows.
November 3, 2011
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Congressman Bobby Rush Compares NCAA to Mafia
The Democratic congressman from Chicago compared the NCAA to the Mafia over how it controls the lives of student athletes.
November 2, 2011
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NCAA Board Approves Tougher Academic Standards, Scholarship Funds for Student-Athlete Spending
The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I board announced sweeping changes to athlete eligibility requirements and scholarship aid during a news conference call on Thursday.
October 27, 2011
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Southern University Trims Class Week
Southern University is switching to a four-day class week in January by doing away with Friday courses.
October 26, 2011
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Higher Education Analysts Sound Caution on Obama Student Loan Relief Plan
When President Obama touted his two-pronged student debt relief measure before thousands of students Wednesday in downtown Denver, he got rounds of applause.
October 26, 2011
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