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High-Tech Cheating
With dozens of online term paper mills appearing on the Internet, professors and institutions are imposing new strategies to deter students from using them
July 15, 2007
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Black Enterprise-Listed – listing of top 50 colleges for African American students
A new college ranking, designed to help students and their parents evaluate an institution’s academic and social appeal for African Americans, hits newsstands.
July 14, 2007
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In Education We Trust – The Education Trust
Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, has released a new report full of data that she hopes will support efforts to improve the quality of public education.
July 14, 2007
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Grants & Awards
Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.
July 14, 2007
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Bi News Briefs
At Central State: Prosecutors Resume Investigation; Fund-Raising Drive Benefits Needy Students
July 14, 2007
Students
Washington Update
Student-Aid Program Begins New Era
July 14, 2007
Students
UNH President, Black Student Leaders Strike Agreement
CONCORD, N.H. University of New Hampshire President Joan Leitzel signed a list of demands last month from Black students who had staged a sit-in at her office.
July 14, 2007
Students
Cyber Diversity – online instruction
It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.
July 14, 2007
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Sour Note for the Marching 100
New allegations of band hazing officials looking for a way to stop a problem they thought had been tamed
July 14, 2007
Students
Worth-Less Grants
Rising Pell grant awards are not keeping pace with rising tuition and a new report shows that they are depriving needy students of educational choice
July 14, 2007
Students
On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM
July 14, 2007
Students
Much Ado About Nothing?
Temple Coach Baffled by Concerns About Athletes’ Lower Graduation Rates
July 14, 2007
Students
Large Black Voter Turnout Helped Usher In New House Leadership
Strong voter turnout among African Americans helped Democrats pick up five U.S. House of Representatives seats and avoid any net losses in the Senate in the November 3 election.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Epitome of Inequality
Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity
July 14, 2007
Students
Kirwan’s Way
Ohio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.
July 14, 2007
Students
Tenure, science, and race matters
For the first time in the 100-year history of what many consider the most elite technical university in the world, the California Institute of Technology has granted tenure to an African American.
July 14, 2007
Students
Celebrating Africana studies: program gets ‘coming out party’ at New York University
NEW YORK In the 1960s, college administrations cobled together piece-meal Black studies programs to placate African American students, inspired by Black Power and African independence struggles, demanding curriculums and professors “relevant” to their experiences.
July 14, 2007
Students
News Briefs
WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.
July 14, 2007
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