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Diverse Conversations: How Can We Increase Minority Graduation Rates?
Neglecting retention strategies means that fewer students ultimately graduate from college and that shortcoming disproportionately affects minority students.
May 7, 2017
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Indiana School Faces Backlash over Trump ‘Resistance’ Class
INDIANAPOLIS — A private college in Vice President Mike Pence’s home state of Indiana is facing backlash after offering a “Trumpism & U.S. Democracy” course that described the president in class materials as a purveyor of “sexism, white supremacy, xenophobia, nationalism, nativism and imperialism.” Now officials at Butler University in Indianapolis are doing damage control […]
May 7, 2017
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Top Court Upholds Death Sentence for Rape that Shocked India
NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the Indian capital nearly five years ago. The court held that the nature of the crime, which triggered massive protests across […]
May 7, 2017
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Sorority Ousts 25 Members at University of Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. — National officials have dismissed 25 members from the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln following reports of underage drinking. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the national sorority office began an investigation in February after university officials raised concerns about a student taken to a hospital over an incident […]
May 7, 2017
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Judge: UNC Does Not Have to Provide Sexual Assault Findings
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — A judge says the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill does not have to release the names of students and employees that its administrative procedures determined were responsible for sex offenses. Local media outlets report Orange County Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour issued a ruling Wednesday in a lawsuit filed […]
May 7, 2017
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American University Student President Targeted with Online Harassment
WASHINGTON — American University in Washington is providing campus police officers to protect the student body president and her family now that she’s getting harassed online after enduring racist taunts earlier this week. AU officials say a “White supremacist” wrote a post asking people to harass Taylor Dumpson. She’s the first Black woman to be […]
May 7, 2017
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Fraternity, 18 Members Charged in Penn State Student’s Death
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — Eighteen Penn State fraternity brothers have been charged with crimes ranging up to involuntary manslaughter in the death of a pledge who authorities say repeatedly fell down a flight of stairs after he and others were made to run a gantlet of drinking stations guzzling vodka, beer and wine. Beta Theta Pi […]
May 7, 2017
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Illinois State University Pursues College for Foster Youths
NORMAL, Ill. — Illinois State University is creating a program to help high schoolers in foster care prepare for college. The university’s First Star Academy, the second one in Illinois, will be funded by $250,000 in grants from the Department of Children and Family Services and a private donor, the Pantagraph reported. The program will […]
May 7, 2017
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Email Paints Dismal Picture of Holy Cross College Finances
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — An email mistakenly sent to the entire student body of northern Indiana’s Holy Cross College paints a dismal picture of the school’s finances and its future. The email sent Friday was written by the school’s vice president for student affairs, Kelly Jordan. Jordan says in that email that she may “spend […]
May 7, 2017
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Colleges are Hotbeds for Inappropriate Behavior
It appears that racism has no boundaries. It rears its distasteful head in too many places and spaces that we hold dear to us.
May 4, 2017
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Diverse Conversations: Diversity Should Be More Than a Buzzword
Diversity is often spoken of as a goal of leadership in some of the country’s most prominent higher education institutions. However, paying lip service to the concept does not always translate into action.
May 4, 2017
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The Black Male Blueprint of Educational Advancement
The key to reaching Black males lies in the willingness of parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, and community stakeholders to invest the time in understanding these young men individually and not collectively.
May 4, 2017
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What are the Odds? 2 Caught Trying to Steal Statistics Exam
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Call it a statistical error: Police say two University of Kentucky students crawled through an air duct to steal a statistics exam from their professor’s office but were caught because he was working late. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports university police cited Henry Lynch II and Troy Kiphuth, both 21, for third-degree burglary […]
May 4, 2017
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Georgia Governor Approves Carrying Concealed Guns on Campus
ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation Thursday allowing people with permits to carry concealed handguns on Georgia’s public college campuses, despite the objections of state university leaders and his own veto of a campus-carry measure last year. Deal shocked fellow Republicans with the tone of last year’s veto message, which referenced opposition to guns […]
May 4, 2017
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Low-income, Minority Students Lag in High School Grad Rates
WASHINGTON — Despite rising national graduation rates, low-income and minority students continue to lag behind their peers in finishing high school, according to a study released Wednesday. While the national graduation rate for the year 2015 was 83.2 percent, it was only 77.8 percent for Hispanic students and 74.6 for Black students, said the […]
May 3, 2017
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Baylor University the Focus of 2nd Federal Investigation
WACO, Texas — Baylor University is at the center of a second federal investigation, this one focusing on how the university compiles and reports crimes that occur on campus. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that a Baylor vice president, Brian Nicholson, sent an email notifying staff that the probe also will include other areas, such as […]
May 3, 2017
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Hundreds March at American University after Noose Incident
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students have been marching at American University in Washington a day after bananas were found hanging from string in the shape of nooses on campus. Television station WRC-TV reports that students walked out of a town hall meeting administrators were holding Tuesday, a day after the bananas were found at several […]
May 2, 2017
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Ex-student Pleads to California School Rampage that Killed 7
SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled former nursing student has pleaded no contest to killing seven people at a Northern California vocational college and will spend the rest of his life in prison. One Goh also pleaded entered the plea Tuesday to injuring three others during his 2012 rampage at Oikos University in Oakland, California. The […]
May 2, 2017
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