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Perspectives: Current Tenure Process Deters Minority Women Professors
Diversity efforts at the University of Michigan have been stalled by the denial of tenure to five female professors of color.
December 15, 2007
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Oregon board urges in-state tuition rate for undocumented immigrants
Undocumented immigrant students would be able to pay in-state tuition rates at Oregon’s public universities, under a proposal from a panel of students, faculty and administrators.
December 12, 2007
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Study Suggests Colleges Do More To Reach Under-represented Students
Information about college from traditional sources is not as accessible to or easily understood by low-income and first-generation students, who tend to rely on high school counselors – when they’re available – and unsolicited marketing materials when researching colleges, according to new research that suggests the best ways to reach under-represented students.
December 12, 2007
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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA
As a senior honors student at Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, Calif., last spring, Lakea Youngblood gained admission to the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles, California’s two most sought-after public universities.
December 12, 2007
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Taking the Heat for Endorsing Clinton
Carole Simpson, a former ABC news anchor who is now a journalism professor at Emerson College, is on the hot seat after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president at a New Hampshire political rally.
December 12, 2007
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Tom Joyner Foundation to Launch Full Ride Scholarship Program for HBCU Students
For one lucky student planning to attend a historically Black college or university next fall, the Tom Joyner Foundation is willing to pick up the entire tab.
December 12, 2007
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California’s Golden Gateway
Over the past year, we have published what we call our “state editions” where we take a close look at higher education in a particular state. So far, we have featured Georgia, New York, Texas, in that order, and now California.
December 12, 2007
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Getting to Know: Dr. Ernest J. Wilson
It’s no exaggeration to say that Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III brings a dazzling breadth of academic and public affairs experience to the deanship of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
December 12, 2007
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Unmasking the Model Minority Myth
Widely considered as overachievers, Asian students’ academic struggles are often downplayed, ignored.
December 12, 2007
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When Diversity is Tradition
It’s not about offering a good orientation program, or fulfilling a course credit or two.
December 12, 2007
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Black Student Enrollment Rebounds at UCLA
Will “outsourced” affirmative action prove long lasting?
December 12, 2007
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Best & Brightest: Starting a Business Before Graduation, Not After
With his e-newsletter, the Networking Loop, Christopher Pollock, a third-year business student at Bowie State University, is taking the oft-repeated saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” to the Internet and becoming the essential link that helps small business owners connect.
December 10, 2007
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Out of Line
Northeastern State University officials relent after telling American Indian graduates to remove feathers and other items at graduation. In time for the Dec. 15 commencement, there are new guidelines allowing Natives to wear tribal insignia.
December 6, 2007
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School Bans Students Without Mumps Shots
The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students Thursday that they’re being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps. Campus officials provided student lists to professors and were trying to reach about 50 on-campus residents to make sure they have another place to go. The 426 […]
December 5, 2007
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Stanford ‘Invests’ In Faculty Diversity
Stanford University has developed a $4.5 million program to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars on the academic profession to 36 doctoral candidates over the next four years as part of an effort to prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for a career in academia.
December 3, 2007
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UT at San Antonio Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course
SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students.
December 3, 2007
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UTSA Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course
SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students. The university pulled “African American Political Thought” from the spring semester because of a lack of student interest in the black […]
December 3, 2007
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Public School Crime Down, But It’s Still More Dangerous For Black, Hispanic Children
The percentage of public schools experiencing incidents of crime was lower in 2005 than in 2003. In 2003, 65 percent of schools reported crimes to the police compared to 61 percent of schools in 2005, the latest year analyzed by the National Center for Education Statistics.
December 3, 2007
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