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Students
Study Abroad Participation Up, Except Among Minority Students
Despite targeted outreach and the availability of financial aid, minority-student study abroad participation declined for several groups, according to the new Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education.
November 15, 2009
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Removing Boundaries and Increasing Student Engagement through Virtual World Platforms
IS THE BURGEONING USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO BE FEARED, GUARDED, OR embraced?
November 11, 2009
Students
PUBLISHING IN PERIL
Recent state budget cuts in education leave some university publishers pinched.
November 11, 2009
Students
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the Tribal Nations Conference
Duncan addresses reasons why students struggle and proposes ways to help Native American students, starting at the preschool level.
November 10, 2009
Students
Louisiana Educators Turn to Trades to Cut Dropout Rate
A new Louisiana law created a “career diploma” that, in an effort to reduce the dropout rate, will go to students who opt for lower academic standards in math and English, while taking classes such as welding, woodworking and small engine repair.
November 9, 2009
Students
Chantilly Pyramid Minority Student Achievement Committee Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Fostering academic accomplishment among students of color in a competitive school district, minority student achievement organization in Northern Virginia celebrates landmark anniversary.
November 8, 2009
Students
Grambling President Makes Abrupt Departure
Citing family member’s illness, Dr. Horace Judson leaves top post at cash-strapped historically Black Louisiana university.
November 8, 2009
Students
Best & Brightest: From Homelessness to Inaugural Fellow
Haiti native Joane Theodule overcame tremendous hardships to finish college and win a graduate school fellowship to Florida A&M University.
November 2, 2009
Students
Obama Community College Proposal May Not Be Enough
President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020.
November 1, 2009
Students
New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers
Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), says developing more elementary and secondary school initiatives that help steer under-represented minority students into undergraduate engineering programs will be a high priority during his tenure.
October 29, 2009
Students
WASHINGTON UPDATE: Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge
Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.
October 28, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Hazing Refuses To Go Away
Media influences and brain development cloud students’ understanding of hazing, studies say.
October 28, 2009
Students
Faculty, Students Challenge University of Maryland’s Diversity Plan
A town hall meeting at the University of Maryland on the school’s proposed diversity plan revealed divisions among the invested students, faculty and staff members who critiqued everything in the document from word choice to the exclusion of some groups to the definition of diversity.
October 28, 2009
Students
Temple University’s Commitment to Diversity Questioned
When budgetary cuts become necessary at a college, the programs and departments most vulnerable are often the least fundamental to a school’s central mission. But when an institution has been ranked as the most diverse student body in higher education, it can be difficult to explain why an office that caters to multicultural students was downsized dramatically.
October 27, 2009
Students
Two-Year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge
Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.
October 25, 2009
Students
Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues
During mentoring institute, minority graduate students were told by senior scholars that they will soon inherit responsibility to help lead the push for diversity in American higher education.
October 25, 2009
Students
UW Bothell Chancellor Champions For Diversity Among College Leadership
The under-representation of minorities, particularly Asian-Americans, in U.S. college presidencies can be due to the fact that many potential minority leaders in the faculty ranks are “ignored” and “overlooked,” said University of Washington Bothell Chancellor Dr. Kenyon S. Chan, who encourages chancellors to think hard about how they develop leadership on their campuses.
October 20, 2009
Students
Georgetown University students call for immigration reform
On Oct. 13, students from MEChA, a student organization at Georgetown University, voice their support for comprehensive immigration reform, bringing their own stories to a rally at the Capitol.
October 18, 2009
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