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Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
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University of Rochester Students Demand More Faculty Diversity
Students at the University of Rochester are demanding that university officials hire more faculty members from underrepresented groups, insisting that the administrators spend less time strategizing about diversity and make it a reality.
March 3, 2008
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Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
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4 Charged in Temple U. Beating Outside Jewish Fraternity
Four Temple University students face charges related to the beating of a man outside a Jewish fraternity on the Philadelphia campus, an attack police categorized as a hate crime.
March 2, 2008
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Nevada Higher Ed Seeks Increased American Indian Enrollment
Higher education officials have formed a coalition to try to turn around the historically low number of American Indian students who go on to college in Nevada.
February 26, 2008
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Three Campus Security Scares On Tuesday
Classes were canceled and a small private college went on lockdown Tuesday as police searched for a man who was seen with a gun on campus, officials said.
February 26, 2008
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Riding Into College With Your Posse
Foundation eases transition by sending students to campuses in groups.
February 26, 2008
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Classes Help University of Missouri Custodial Employees Communicate
Some classes being offered at the University of Missouri-Columbia are for the custodial employees, with the aim of helping them better communicate with each other.
February 26, 2008
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Perspectives: Tradition of Inclusion Left Out of William & Mary President’s Story
Controversy at the College of William & Mary and the clear schism between the college community and the board of visitors have recently become major stories in the media. With every article I read, however, the story appears half told.
February 25, 2008
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Yale Plans for Biggest Expansion in Decades
NEW HAVEN, Conn.  Yale University is moving forward with plans to build two residential colleges, an expansion that could create the largest increase in the student body since the Ivy League college began admitting women in 1969. Yale President Richard Levin sent a statement to faculty and students this week citing the benefits of the […]
February 20, 2008
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Suffering the Borrowing Blues
Proprietary schools likely to be most affected by lenders’ retreat from high-risk student loans, officials say.
February 19, 2008
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AP Course Access and Scores Improve for Hispanics in Some States
Although Hispanic students have continued to close the “equity and excellence gap” in 15 states in the Advanced Placement courses, gaps persist in California and Texas, two of the biggest states with a high percentage of Hispanics in their population, the College Board reveals in its annual AP Report to the Nation.
February 19, 2008
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Suffering the Borrowing Blues
Low-income students and students of color may have a harder time getting some college loans because of an ongoing credit crunch and tighter underwriting rules in the industry.
February 19, 2008
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Affirmative Action Bans Hurt Male Student Enrollment
According to a new study, released by the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA), college admission rates of Asian American students at select public universities have thrived in the absence of affirmative action, whereas the admission rates of Black, Hispanic and White students have declined.
February 17, 2008
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A New Retention Tool: Personal Coaches For Students
For years, Northeastern University¡¯s School of Professional and Continuing Studies was losing its students at a disturbing rate.
February 14, 2008
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University of Colorado Presidential Selection Upsets Campus
The man nominated to lead the state’s flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.D.s, he has only a bachelor’s degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser.
February 14, 2008
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Colo. University Selection Upsets Campus
BOULDER Colo. The man nominated to lead the state’s flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.Ds, he has only a bachelor’s degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser. Bruce Benson’s nomination may be bitterly dividing this 52,000-student, three-campus institution, but it is a sign […]
February 13, 2008
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Students Being Forced Out of Dorms Because of Poor Grades
Students attending State University of New York at Old Westbury may find themselves homeless and hungry if they don’t keep their grades up, according to a story in The New York Times. The college has recently began enforcing a 14-year-old policy that says any student with a cumulative grade point average lower than 2.0 will […]
February 13, 2008
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