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Multicultural Dorm Project Rewarded For Retention Results

Five years ago, when Purdue University’s administrators sat down to brainstorm ways to improve diversity and retain students, they came up a solution they never thought would become an award-winning retention program.

July 30, 2007

UA digs into Cuban American Indian history

TUSCALOOSA Ala. What might Cuba’s native culture looked like before the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s?

July 28, 2007

CareerTech funding not enough to meet student demand

TULSA Okla. Student demand for enrollment in programs offered by Oklahoma’s career and technology agency is more than the agency can afford to meet.

July 28, 2007

Adults with low educational skills hamper W.Va. economy

CHARLESTON W.Va. Experts in economics, education and welfare agree: a key to improving West Virginia’s long-struggling economy is developing the state’s “human capital.”

July 28, 2007

Most 2006-07 Kalamazoo Promise students get scholarship renewal

KALAMAZOO Mich. About 80 percent of students who received college scholarships under The Kalamazoo Promise program in 2006-07 kept up their grades enough to have their funding renewed this fall.

July 28, 2007

Minn. student scores stay mostly steady in reading, math

ST. PAUL They didn’t jump dramatically nor did they fall precipitously. So, “steady” became the watchword as the Department of Education put out the latest batch of student test scores Sunday.

July 28, 2007

Air Force Academy board hears ideas for diversifying recruits

COLORADO SPRINGS Colo. The Air Force Academy risks falling behind elite universities in recruiting a diverse student body unless it invests in sophisticated, data-driven techniques to find qualified students, a former Air Force leader said.

July 28, 2007

Southern center aims to aid Africa

BATON ROUGE La. Victor Mbarika envisions Louisiana doctors serving the sick and needy in Africa without having to leave their American offices.

July 28, 2007

Judge turns down contempt request for school leaders in race case

LOUISVILLE Ky. A lawyer’s request that Jefferson County school officials be held in contempt and put in jail was turned down Friday, before school district lawyers even responded to the request.

July 27, 2007

African Students Trace U.S. Civil Rights

LITTLE ROCK Ark. Just a day into a tour of civil rights landmarks in the South, Nadia Samie says she already sees parallels between the Jim Crow era and the apartheid period in her country, South Africa.

July 27, 2007

Report: CUNY to raise admissions standards for senior colleges

NEW YORK The City University of New York is going to make it tougher for students to get into its senior colleges.

July 27, 2007

Wisconsin attorney general: Race can be considered in admissions

MADISON Wis. A new freshman admissions policy requiring University of Wisconsin campuses to consider an applicant’s race as one of many factors is legal, the state attorney general said Thursday.

July 26, 2007

Frat adviser: Cartoon may have prompted alleged threat

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. A Southern Illinois University student accused of writing a note threatening a “murderous rampage” similar to the April one at Virginia Tech may innocently have been mimicking what he’d seen on a cartoon, a fraternity adviser of the suspect said.

July 26, 2007

Lawyer Asks for Changes in Schools Case

LOUISVILLE Ky. An attorney who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected the use of race in assigning students to Louisville schools asked a judge on Thursday to allow about 2,800 students to change schools immediately.

July 26, 2007

College Student Accused of Terror Threat

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. He seemed in many ways a typical college student — president of his fraternity at Southern Illinois University, an aspiring rapper who wrote about finding a girlfriend who could cook. He said his favorite book was the Bible.

July 25, 2007

Getting to Know: Denny McAuliffe

Denny McAuliffe realized early on that traditional college recruiting wasn’t going to bring more American Indians to journalism school. As a result, “We don’t recruit,” he says. “We go to them.”

July 25, 2007

The Weight of One Man’s Opinion

While casting the deciding vote in the recent K-12 desegregation case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion left some room to maneuver.

July 25, 2007

‘Time Out’

Do the demographics of sports newsrooms contribute to the sometimes negative coverage of Black athletes?

July 25, 2007