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‘Freedom Riders’: The Fight To End Segregation
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.
December 21, 2010
Dorothy Height
Students
Wisconsin College’s Teaching Methods Gain Attention
Alverno College, a small women’s college on Milwaukee’s south side, has been widely cited as a national model for training teachers, thanks to its combination of clinical and classroom experience and use of video and other tools to evaluate whether graduates are meeting the standards for what makes a good teacher.
December 20, 2010
Sharon P. Robinson is president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, an umbrella group for schools that specialize in training teachers.
Students
Curriculum Reform at UT-Galveston Medical School Yields Improved Minority Student Board Results
The UT Medical Branch at Galveston has developed an approach that faculty members say have had a remarkable effect on its students’ performance on the medical board exam.
December 19, 2010
Morehouse medical school president Dr. John E. Maupin, Jr.
Students
College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion
Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.
December 16, 2010
Students
Keeping Latino Religion Scholars Faithful to the Classroom
The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hispanic Theological Initiative helps Latino doctoral students launch careers as religion scholars.
December 15, 2010
Princeton HTI
Students
Minnesota’s Private Colleges Recruit Diverse Students
For almost the tenth consecutive year the number of minorities enrolled in the 17 four-year, liberal arts schools that belong to the Minnesota Private College Council has increased.
December 14, 2010
St. Catherine graduates
Students
Garden State Abandons Minority Doctoral Program
New Jersey Legislature defunds the Minority Academic Careers program, making financing doctoral study a heavier burden for minority students.
December 14, 2010
Jose Lopez
Students
India Arrests Kashmir Teacher for Exam on Unrest
Students initially thought unexpected exam was a plot by Indian intelligence officers.
December 13, 2010
Kashmir Street Riots
Students
Adults Blame Parents for Education Problems
Blaming teachers for low test scores, poor graduation rates and the other ills of American schools has been popular lately, but a new survey wags a finger closer to home.
December 12, 2010
Students
Southern U.S. College Graduation Rates Lag Behind National Average
A nuanced picture of college completion rates in southern U.S. states emerged Tuesday with the release of a study that shows most states trailing the national average—a trend that the report’s authors say could have negative implications for the region’s workforce and its increasingly diverse student population if things don’t improve.
December 7, 2010
Dave Spence
Students
Graduation Gap Between Black and White College Football Players Said To Be Growing
A sports diversity institute study says there is a “disturbing” and growing gap in the graduation rate between Black and White football players at the vast majority of universities in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
December 6, 2010
Benjamin Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, said student-athletes will rise to the academic bar set for them.
Students
Along With Increased Scrutiny of For-profits, Harvard Economist Urges Transparency for All Institutions
Dr. Bridget Terry Long says traditional higher education institutions should be providing more information about how valuable the schooling they provide will be in the workplace.
December 5, 2010
Bridget Long
Students
NAFEO, AT&T Launch Effort To Help Students With Disabilities Attend HBCUs, PBIs
The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the AT&T telecommunications giant have launched an initiative to provide scholarships to students with disabilities attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions.
December 2, 2010
Lezli Baskerville
Students
Perspectives: When College is a Means to an End
How do you reach college students who are only enrolled to develop marketable skills rather than critical-thinking skills?
November 30, 2010
Bree Kessler
Students
Book Reviews: Life Journeys in Academia
While college professors spend a lot of time preparing others for careers, three recent academic memoirs show it can be instructive when scholars share the stories of their own development and life journeys.
November 29, 2010
George Henderson
Students
Sullivan Seeks to Lead the University of Virginia at a Challenging Time
Dr. Teresa Sullivan, the first female president of the University of Virginia, leads the institution into a new era amid state budget cuts and other challenges.
November 28, 2010
Budget cuts to the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Temple University resulted in staffers who mentored and assisted culturally based student organizations being re-assigned to other departments.
Students
Advocates Decry Loss of N.J. Scholarship Program for Preschool Teachers
Education advocates say New Jersey’s Abbott initiative—offering scholarships to employees of preschools in New Jersey’s poorest districts—had tremendous impact.
November 23, 2010
Ave Latte
Students
Report: For-profit Schools Likened to Subprime Mortgage Lenders
The embattled for-profit college sector has taken another hit with the release of a new report that indicts the industry for preying on low-income and minority students in a way that will ultimately lead to a financial catastrophe like the subprime mortgage collapse of 2008.
November 23, 2010
Kati Haycock
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