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Students
In Maryland Desegregation Case, Black Colleges Seek Protected ‘Academic Niches’
Historically Black colleges in Maryland should have the right to offer unique, high-demand courses that cannot be duplicated at nearby traditionally White colleges, lawyers argued Thursday in the closing remarks of the remedy phase of a desegregation case.
June 8, 2017
Students
Morehouse Interim President Taggart Dies
The Morehouse College community woke on Thursday morning to the news that William Taggart, interim president of the historically Black institution in Atlanta, had died Wednesday night.
June 8, 2017
Students
NY College Students Begin Applying for Free Tuition Program
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state has begun accepting applications for its new tuition-free college program. More than 3,000 people signed up for the Excelsior scholarship Wednesday, the first day the applications were available. They’ll be accepted through July 21. Applicants should know within a week whether they’re eligible to receive funding. The tuition initiative […]
June 8, 2017
Students
New Program Aims to Help Indiana Foster Kids in College
INDIANAPOLIS — About 50 Indiana foster children who are entering college will receive additional instruction this summer though a program intended to boost the number of foster kids finishing degrees. The nonprofit Indiana Connected by 25 is working with Purdue University Northwest, where the incoming freshman will stay in dorms while receiving eight weeks of […]
June 7, 2017
Students
MIT Gets $140M Donation from Anonymous Alumnus
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a $140 million donation from a former student. Officials at the elite school said Wednesday that the donation comes from an alumnus who wants to remain anonymous. The gift is an unrestricted donation, meaning it can be used in any way to support MIT’s research […]
June 7, 2017
Students
University of Michigan Wins Right to Ban Guns on Campus
While the vast majority of the nation’s colleges and universities continue to prohibit the carrying of firearms on their campuses, the rift over policy as to whether guns belong at higher education institutions roils on.
June 7, 2017
Students
McBride Taking Equity, Access Advocacy to Next Level
When it comes to LGBTQ and queer studies, Dr. Dwight A. McBride has been a pioneering theorist, churning out groundbreaking scholarship that examines the intersection of race and sexuality.
June 7, 2017
Students
Senators Take DeVos to Task Over Proposed Budget
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared before a Senate education subcommittee Tuesday to defend a proposed 2018 budget amid charges that it would make college less affordable and increase student debt.
June 6, 2017
Students
University of Puerto Rico Reopening as Students End Protest
After more than 50 days of a sustained strike that suspended campus activities altogether, students at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras campus voted to end the protest on Monday. Classes are expected to begin again next week.
June 6, 2017
Students
Ambar Sees Her Achievements as Paths to Empowering Others
Dr. Carmen Ambar, named last week as the first African American president in Oberlin College’s 184 years of existence, said that making history is affirming to African American children that they can do anything.
June 6, 2017
Students
Excellence Does Not Shield Black Students from Racism
Excellence does not shield Black students from the challenges of being Black in America.
June 6, 2017
Students
Campus ‘Free Speech’ Bill Backed by Louisianan Lawmakers
BATON ROUGE, La. — Legislation seeking to protect controversial speakers’ appearances at Louisiana colleges and calling on campuses to penalize students who disrupt them has won final passage from lawmakers, but only after its punishment provisions were watered down. Rep. Lance Harris, chairman of the House Republican Delegation, has said his bill is a response […]
June 6, 2017
Students
3 Things Your Student Loan Servicer Might Not Tell You
Student loan servicers, the companies that manage $1.4 trillion in federal and private loans, haven’t been earning much trust among borrowers. Sixty-four percent of the 44,400 student loan complaints the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau collected between July 2011 and March 2017 involved problems borrowers had with their lenders or servicers, including not informing them about […]
June 6, 2017
Students
Rodriguez: Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz Identity
A couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano […]
June 5, 2017
Students
NASFAA Offers Guidance to Displaced College Students
The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has developed a website to benefit students whose colleges closed while they were enrolled or shortly after they withdrew.
June 5, 2017
Students
Campus LGBTQ Organizations Hit Their Stride
Faculty and staff LGBTQ caucuses, or standing committees as they are sometimes known, have been instrumental in encouraging college administrations to create more inclusive campus environments.
June 5, 2017
Students
Newspaper: Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments
BOSTON — At least 10 students who were accepted to Harvard University had their admission offers revoked because they made offensive comments online, the university’s student newspaper reported. The Harvard Crimson reported that some students in the incoming freshman class created a private Facebook group in December where they traded images and messages that were […]
June 5, 2017
Students
Senators Say They’re Fighting to Protect Pell Grant Program
WARWICK, R.I. — Rhode Island’s two Democratic U.S. senators said on Monday that they’re fighting to protect and expand the student financial aid program named for their predecessor Claiborne Pell. Pell Grants have been a fixture of federal financial aid since the 1970s, helping millions of low-income students attend college annually. Claiborne Pell, a former […]
June 5, 2017
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