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Who Are For-Profit Colleges Serving, And at What Cost?
In August 2007, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education published a story by Paul Ruffins entitled, “The Secrets Behind Their Success,” about ways in which for-profit colleges serve minority, low-income and other traditionally underserved populations.
December 26, 2007
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2007: A Year In Review
The most high-profile story of the year touching the higher education community was undisputedly the killings at Virginia Tech in April when student Seung-Hui Cho opened fire, leaving 33 people dead, including himself.
December 26, 2007
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Asian American Studies: A Harvard Aspiration
During the 1980s, Asian American students at Harvard University staged a noisy protest petitioning the university to hire an Asian American studies professor. Hundreds of student signatures were collected. No professors were hired.
December 19, 2007
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Film on Wiley College Debate Team Scores Victory
: “The Great Debaters,” a Black college-based historical drama starring Denzel Washington, renders rousing justice to the legacy of Wiley College’s 1935 national championship debating team. What’s interesting about “The Great Debaters” is not so much the debating mechanics and strategy, but how the debate topics are used to illuminate the Black condition in 1930s America.
December 18, 2007
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In Brief: An Academic Scandal Snags Florida State
Also, a Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and southwest Missouri freshmen said to be increasingly unprepared to pass basic college-level courses.
December 18, 2007
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Blackface Costumes at Parties Trigger Punishment at Northwest
MARYVILLE, Mo. Fraternity monitors at Northwest Missouri State University have punished two chapters whose members appeared at Halloween parties in blackface.
December 15, 2007
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Perspectives: Current Tenure Process Deters Minority Women Professors
Diversity efforts at the University of Michigan have been stalled by the denial of tenure to five female professors of color.
December 15, 2007
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Oregon board urges in-state tuition rate for undocumented immigrants
Undocumented immigrant students would be able to pay in-state tuition rates at Oregon’s public universities, under a proposal from a panel of students, faculty and administrators.
December 12, 2007
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Study Suggests Colleges Do More To Reach Under-represented Students
Information about college from traditional sources is not as accessible to or easily understood by low-income and first-generation students, who tend to rely on high school counselors – when they’re available – and unsolicited marketing materials when researching colleges, according to new research that suggests the best ways to reach under-represented students.
December 12, 2007
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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA
As a senior honors student at Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, Calif., last spring, Lakea Youngblood gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, California’s two most sought-after public universities.
December 12, 2007
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Taking the Heat for Endorsing Clinton
Carole Simpson, a former ABC news anchor who is now a journalism professor at Emerson College, is on the hot seat after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president at a New Hampshire political rally.
December 12, 2007
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Tom Joyner Foundation to Launch Full Ride Scholarship Program for HBCU Students
For one lucky student planning to attend a historically Black college or university next fall, the Tom Joyner Foundation is willing to pick up the entire tab.
December 12, 2007
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California’s Golden Gateway
Over the past year, we have published what we call our “state editions” where we take a close look at higher education in a particular state. So far, we have featured Georgia, New York, Texas, in that order, and now California.
December 12, 2007
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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
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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
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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA
Will “outsourced” affirmative action prove long lasting?
December 12, 2007
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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
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