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Section: Demographics
Sports
Every Student Needs a Success Plan
Is it OK to just put our goals and dreams on auto pilot and think that we will achieve them? Of course not.
December 26, 2013
African-American
FAMU’s New Recruiting Strategy Paying Off
So far applications for the fall, 2014 academic year are up 10 percent compared to this time same a year ago, said university interim President Larry Robinson.
December 26, 2013
LGBTQ+
Colorado State Assistant Suspended for Using Gay Slur
Coach Greg Lupfer suspended without pay for two weeks after yelling a slur at Washington State quarterback in bowl game.
December 24, 2013
Sports
Akron Assistant Football Coach Killed in Car Accident
Mississippi native, nicknamed “Tank,” killed in home state at age 44.
December 24, 2013
African-American
Dr. James W. Loewen Changing the Way America Views its History
Inspired by Mississippi’s flawed teaching of history, Harvard-trained sociologist Loewen is attempting to set the record straight through his best-selling textbooks.
December 24, 2013
Students
University of North Florida Won’t Appeal Court Ruling on Guns
President John Delaney states that students will be allowed to store guns in their cars.
December 23, 2013
Students
Crazy Horse Program Jumpstarts College Careers
Program’s CEO says about 68 percent of the students who have attended Indian University of North America summer sessions in the backdrop of the mammoth mountain carving in South Dakota’s Black Hills have continued to pursue degrees at private public or tribal colleges and universities.
December 23, 2013
Disabilties
Creighton University Must Accommodate Deaf Student
Michael Argenyi was accepted to Creighton’s medical school in 2008 after disclosing that he was hearing impaired and requesting accommodations for his disability to allow him to follow lectures and communicate with patients.
December 22, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Early Christmas Presents for Kids with Disabilities
A half-dozen children got some special early Christmas presents from a University of Georgia class this month.
December 22, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Summoning a Little Sympathy for the Harvard Non-Bomber, Eldo Kim
It’s sad that the academic and financial pressure in college is such that a student is unable to tell the simple truth that he is unprepared to take an exam.
December 22, 2013
African-American
Mississippi State House Just 1st Stop for Student Jeramey Anderson
At 22, Tulane’s history-making state representative aims to aid HBCUs along the way as he charts a course to the White House.
December 22, 2013
African-American
HBCUs Still Waiting for Solution to Parent PLUS Loan Crisis
HBCUs still have no news from the Department of Education on whether the problems over the Parent PLUS Loan program will be resolved before the 2014 recruiting season.
December 19, 2013
Students
Harvard Student Appears in Court on Bomb Hoax Charge
A Harvard University student appeared briefly in federal court Wednesday, accused of making a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of four campus buildings so he could get out of a final exam.
December 18, 2013
Students
Center for American Progress Urges ‘Game-Changing’ Higher Education Reforms
The Washington-based Center for American Progress releases a pair of research reports that highlight three approaches for higher education reform models.
December 18, 2013
African-American
December 19th Edition
In this edition, Diverse features a Spectrum piece on Pamela Gibbs, the inaugural director of the SEC’s Office of Minority…
December 18, 2013
African-American
Are Americans Experiencing a Crisis in Faith?
A world that is marred with economic uncertainty, ongoing crisis, social upheaval and other forms of unrest can cause any person to feel disillusion.
December 17, 2013
Students
Alabama College Transfer Program Strained by Budget Cuts
The chancellor of Alabama’s community college system says he hopes budget cuts don’t lead to the collapse of a program intended to help community college students transfer credits to four-year institutions.
December 15, 2013
Students
Diverse Conversations: Preparing Students for the Labor Force
William Peace University’s Dr. Lynn Owens explains how employers’ needs have changed and how educators can prepare graduates for today’s labor force.
December 15, 2013
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