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Public Relations Masks the Real College-Access Crisis
The wealthiest universities enroll the smallest percentage of low-income students — this has to change.
May 28, 2008
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Community College Financial Aid Lacking for N.C. Students, Report Finds
A report released today criticizes the grant and financial aid programs that serve the state’s 58 community colleges, saying the aid programs fall short of the financial support a typical community college student needs.
May 21, 2008
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Feds Offer Help to Student Loan Industry
Student loan companies, squeezed by the credit crisis, are getting some help from the federal government.
May 21, 2008
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Online School Targets Hispanics, Students At Risk
The state’s newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.
May 20, 2008
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New Online School Targets Hispanics, At-risk Students
The state’s newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.
May 19, 2008
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Policymakers Seek to Ensure No Disruptions In Student Loan Availability
Congressional leaders are considering a variety of bills to impede a late summer student loan crisis.
May 14, 2008
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False Alarms
Attention-seeking students fabricate crimes to generate the media and community response that real campus tragedies command.
May 14, 2008
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The Early Study Abroad Trend
A growing number of South Korean students are going to English speaking countries as teenagers in hopes of gaining entry into American universities.
May 14, 2008
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Research Points the Way to Building Blocks Of Student Success
A high school diploma still marks a critical education milestone in people’s lives. However, in today’s economy, it has lost its edge in providing individual workplace advantage and economic self-sufficiency.
May 14, 2008
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Asian Evasion: A Recipe for Flawed Resolutions
Asians are arguably one of the most misunderstood groups in higher education. Even categorizing “Asian” students can be quite confusing. For example, should data be disaggregated by different Asian subgroups?
May 14, 2008
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NC System Reverses Itself, Won’t Admit Undocumented
North Carolina community colleges will have to wait longer for a resolution to a controversy over admitting undocumented students that has been brewing since the system issued a directive last December to do so as part of the prevailing open-admissions policy
May 13, 2008
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Va. Expands Program to Improve Diversity Among Community College Faculty
The 23-school Virginia community college system has announced an expansion of its Chancellor’s Graduate Student Fellowship program to enhance the initiative’s capacity to increase faculty diversity.
May 12, 2008
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2008 Valedictorian A Different Kind Of “Morehouse Man”
From his first day at Morehouse College, the country’s only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of Black men, Joshua Packwood has been a standout.
May 11, 2008
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Perspectives: A2MEND Addressing Issues Facing Black Males in Higher Education
Since its founding in 2005, the African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND) organization has grown from an organization that identified the main component of their mission to “create an affirming academic and professional environment for African-Americans,” to an organization that is actively achieving this mission through providing workshops and presentations throughout California and the United States.
May 7, 2008
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New Jersey Lawmakers Question Plan to Reduce Community College Scholarship Awards
Vanessa Frost is thankful she’s not a year younger.
May 7, 2008
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Report Measures Levels of Campus Inclusivity at Three Colleges and Universities
Intolerance, threats and verbal insults pervaded the campuses of three predominately White institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University, and Columbia College, according to a student survey in the recently released report, “If I’d Only Known.”
May 7, 2008
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Conference Highlights Successful Schools
When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.
May 6, 2008
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Authorities arrest 75 students in drug bust at San Diego University
Authorities arrested 96 people, most of them students, as part of an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student’s fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday.
May 6, 2008
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