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Federally Funded Programs Are Not Enough to Diversify the STEM Workforce
Despite billions of dollars being invested on hundreds of programs that are created to increase the number of minorities who enter STEM fields, data from Change the Equation, indicates that today’s STEM workforce is no more diverse than it was 15 years ago.
July 24, 2018
Students
Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color
If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.
July 23, 2018
Students
Strayhorn Appointed to Leadership Post at LeMoyne-Owen College
Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a prominent education researcher and author, has been named interim vice president for academic and student affairs at LeMoyne-Owen College, a private historically Black college in Memphis.
July 19, 2018
Students
TCUs: Saving Native American Education
Native Americans have the lowest educational attainment of any race. One of the ways in which mainstream institutions are failing them is by simply not addressing the values of Native American students.
July 19, 2018
Students
Part II: Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Students in Their Journey to Academic Success
Every instructor, teacher and professor was once a student in a classroom. Yes, times have changed significantly, yet the fundamentals of the college experience and the goals for your teaching and student learning remain universal.
July 11, 2018
Students
Sisters, Other-Mothers and Aunties: The Importance of Informal Mentors for Black Women Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions
Mentoring is paramount to the success of Black women pursuing graduate degrees. Unfortunately, mentors at predominantly White institutions who provide formal mentoring for Black women graduate students are few and far between.
July 10, 2018
Students
Survey Explores College Students’ Beliefs, Activism
Nearly six in 10 college students would protest publicly for a cause they care about, according to a survey conducted over the last three weeks that highlighted college students’ beliefs surrounding political, social and environmental issues.
July 9, 2018
Students
New Book Examines How Scholar-Practitioner Advanced Equity in Student Affairs
When some of the nation’s top scholars decided to pen a book examining the life of Dr. Melvin C. Terrell and his contributions to the field of student affairs, Terrell knew that was something special. But then again, the retiree’s life has been nothing short of extraordinary.
June 28, 2018
Students
Realizing My Potential Through the Higher Education Opportunity Program
When done correctly, opportunity programs foster a sense of community on campus where students feel safe to struggle and know that they have the support necessary to overcome the obstacles that come along with being underprepared for college – not by choice, but by circumstance.
June 27, 2018
Students
Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Faculty in Student Success
As college professors, we hear it all the time, especially during the end of the semester, when it seems that’s the only time students decide to pay you an office visit. “Can you tell me how I’m doing in your class?”
June 26, 2018
Students
A Seat at the Table for KIPP Alumni
WASHINGTON – The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) centered students who are alumni of the charter school network at the forefront of a conversation this week about what it takes to get to and through college during a panel on Capitol Hill.
June 25, 2018
Students
Study: Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment
Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.
June 18, 2018
Students
Napolitano Discusses First-Gen Students and College Affordability at Convening
DENVER – Colleges and universities across the nation should implement a wide range of wrap-around services for first-generation students, said Janet Napolitano, who leads the University of California, one of the largest public university systems in the country.
June 12, 2018
Students
Southwest Arkansas Schools Courting Hispanic Students
Holding an ESL course at a local chicken processing plant, diversity celebrations, connecting with student families and Spanish-speaking campus tour guides are just some of the ways universities in an area like Southwest Arkansas reach the local Hispanic population.
June 11, 2018
Students
Promoting Diversity Using Motivation-Based Admissions Screening
Motivation is the most critical element to success. It is this highly valuable consequence of motivation that makes it a primary concern for managers, teachers, religious leaders, coaches, parents and others concerned with mobilizing others to act. Motivation is particularly valuable in education.
June 11, 2018
Students
‘No One Can Take Away My Degree’
For an undocumented immigrant like Humberto Marquez, a public school in Arkansas couldn’t offer in-state tuition, so the cost would be three times more than other students, he said. It was a grim realization to consider on high school graduation day. He estimates he paid 40 to 50 percent of his educational expenses out of his personal pocketbook, having been helped by contributions and even scholarships from people who wanted to support Dreamers like him.
June 10, 2018
Students
Student Social and Emotional Learning Explored at Gathering
Scholars, policymakers and other stakeholders from 12 countries have gathered here to delve deeply into social and emotional learning, one of the newest frontiers in education that some researchers and practitioners are tying to academic achievement, future labor-market success and personal happiness.
June 7, 2018
Students
Study: College Financial Aid Award Letters Lack Clarity, Transparency
Financial aid award letters from colleges often are so unclear or misleading that students and their families don’t get an accurate picture of the full cost of schooling and just how much money they will have to ante up on their own.
June 5, 2018
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