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Students
Morehouse College’s Next Step in Eliminating the N-word
As a first-year student at Morehouse College, Alex Bibb, 21, said the N-word every other sentence. Now a graduating senior, the word has nearly disappeared from Bibb’s vocabulary.
November 3, 2008
Students
Voters Set To Decide on Affirmative Action, Whether to Give More Public Dollars to Education
Voters will not only choose the next president on Tuesday, but in many states they will also cast ballots affecting higher colleges and universities across the country.
November 2, 2008
Students
Gay-rights Group Members Arrested at College
Three members of a gay-rights group on a nationwide bus tour of faith-based universities were arrested this week after going to a private campus that had banned them, officials said.
October 30, 2008
Students
Diversity Now
As the University of Illinois prepares to commemorate the anniversary of Project 500, its ambitious fast-tracked minority recruitment program of 1968, alumni and faculty say they remain gratified by its legacy.
October 29, 2008
Students
Writing their own History
San Francisco State University is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the student-led strike that brought about the creation of the College of Ethnic Studies.
October 29, 2008
Students
Overcoming a Cultural Aversion to FINANCIAL AID
Reluctance to ask for financial aid forces many Asian students to make enrollment decisions based on college costs and affordability.
October 29, 2008
Students
Grants& Gifts
ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY has received $5 MILLION from the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee for its Department of Biological Sciences. The funds will help build ASU’s new life sciences building, which will house the university’s new doctoral program in microbiology. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS, has received a $750,000 grant from the […]
October 29, 2008
Students
Multicultural Competence: Diversity Training From Within
When I read the article titled “When Diversity Training Goes Awry” in Diverse’s Jan. 24, 2008 edition, I was once again reminded that my own experiences and observations of diversity work in colleges have often had a similar outcome.
October 29, 2008
Students
Universities Struggle to Cover Operating Costs
With declines in the stock market and less access to credit, some institutions are looking at their financial bottom lines more closely.
October 29, 2008
Students
Arkansas Chancellor Could Support In-State Rates for the Undocumented
The head of Arkansas’ flagship university said the state must do everything possible to encourage more students to seek bachelor’s degrees – possibly even by offering undocumented immigrants the lower tuition rates given to in-state residents.
October 28, 2008
Students
Both Obama and McCain Seen as Keeping Muslim Americans at ‘Arms Length’
Muslim and Arab Americans could tip the balance in the close presidential race.
October 27, 2008
Students
Shooting at Ark. University Kills 2, Wounds 1
CONWAY, Ark. The head of the University of Central Arkansas said Monday that campus was safe after a shooting left two students dead and a third person wounded. Police said the killings did not appear to be acts of random violence and that there was no remaining threat on the 12,500-student campus. Police said they […]
October 26, 2008
Students
Gathering Examines Lack of Minority Men in Post-Graduate Programs
The differences between men and women aren’t all that difficult to spot.
October 26, 2008
Students
UA head wants in-state rates for illegals
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The head of Arkansas’ flagship university said the state must do everything it can to encourage more students to seek bachelor’s degrees – including possibly offering illegal immigrants the lower tuition rates given to residents. University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart stopped just short of endorsing a possible measure […]
October 23, 2008
Students
Emerging Scholars
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine is accepting nominations for its annual Emerging Scholars issue, which will be published in January and will feature 10 of the nation’s top minority talents in academia.
October 23, 2008
Students
Brownsville Wins $1Million Prize for Academic Gains
One of the nation’s poorest school districts, already tousled by a hurricane and nervously awaiting division by a fence being built along the U.S.-Mexican border, won the coveted $1 million Broad Prize for Urban Education last week in recognition of its academic advances.
October 21, 2008
Students
Haskell Indian Nations University President Under Fire
The embattled president of Haskell Indian Nations University is standing firm while the university’s Board of Regents asks for her dismissal and nearly half of the students have signed petitions seeking her resignation.
October 20, 2008
Students
Haskell president under fire
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – The embattled president of Haskell Indian Nations University is standing firm while the university’s Board of Regents asks for her dismissal and nearly half of the students have signed petitions seeking her resignation. More than 100 students and faculty members attended a forum Friday in the school auditorium designed to deal […]
October 19, 2008
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