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Section: Demographics
Latinx
Colleges Encouraged to Improve the Student Experience By Using Identified Best Practices
Jackson State University discovered through a student survey that students were not feeling engaged at the institution, and despite problematic academic probation and retention rates, were not taking advantage of the support services available.
March 12, 2008
Students
Perspectives: Knowledge, Authority and Hmong Invisibility
A professor’s comments about Hmong Americans a year ago were controversial, but it was and is the dismissal of Hmong views and voices in the face of intolerance that remains the enduring problem.
March 12, 2008
Native Americans
State, UW Join Push for Tribal Center at Riverton College
Plans for a long-sought American Indian center at Central Wyoming College in Riverton have gotten a boost with the University of Wyoming joining the project and the state Legislature’s approval of $1.1 million in funding.
March 12, 2008
Native Americans
The Struggle to Keep Native Students in College
Fourteen of New Mexico Highlands University’s 106 American Indian students enrolled last fall did not return for spring semester. The university is trying to figure out how to retain students who “don’t feel like they belong.”
March 12, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Minorities and Whites Have Differing Views of Health Care
Minorities are more likely than White patients to rate their health care as fair or poor, a view that is particularly true among Chinese Americans, Blacks born in Africa and Vietnamese Americans.
March 12, 2008
Latinx
Report Explores Link Between Latino’s Faith, Politics and Activism
Latinos’ religious affiliation and church attendance influence their political party preferences, degree of support for the war in Iraq and positions on moral issues raised in the last presidential campaign, according to a report recently released by the Center for the Study of Latino Religion (CSLR) in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS).
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Mexico Initiates English Classes Throughout U.S. at Consular Offices
Mexico will use its network of 48 consular offices in the United States to offer courses in English- as-a-Second-Language (ESL), diplomatic officials have announced.
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Latino School Enrollment Up in Texas Cities With Immigration Laws
North Texas cities debating local laws to deal with illegal immigration are also home to school districts with some of the state’s largest increases in Hispanic student enrollment, a Fort Worth Star-Telegram analysis found.
March 11, 2008
Latinx
Report Links Hate Crimes to Anti-immigrant Sentiment
Anti-immigrant sentiment is fueling nationwide increases in the number of hate groups and the number of hate crimes targeting Latinos, a watchdog group said Monday.
March 11, 2008
Students
NASPA Session Tackles Hazing Problem Among Black Greeks
Black Greek fraternity members feel hazing solidifies their loyalty to their organization and builds “character and discipline,” according to study results presented to a packed session at the 90th annual NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference.
March 10, 2008
Leadership & Policy
For Hispanic Leaders, College Affordability Is Top Concern
A panel of Hispanic college and university presidents said affordability is greatly affecting Hispanic students’ access to college and offered suggestions for boosting public investment in higher education at a plenary session at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s annual meting.
March 9, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Professional Appointments
Dr. Nancy S. Dye has been appointed the first vice chancellor and president of the Asian University for Women (Chittagong, Bangladesh. Formerly, she served as President Emerita of Oberlin College. She received a bachelor’s fromVassar College, and amaster’s and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. DR. ZENEBE ABEBE has been appointed the first vice […]
March 4, 2008
Latinx
Congress To Give More, Demand More
A Pell Grant increase is in the HEA bill, but so are provisions for colleges to explain large endowments and tuition increases.
March 4, 2008
Students
Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’
With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.
March 4, 2008
Latinx
11 Universities Will Lead New Centers of Excellence
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced on Feb. 26 the selection of 11 universities that will be among partner institutions leading five new Centers of Excellence and receiving a multi-year grant of up to $2 million per year, over a period of four to six years.
March 4, 2008
Latinx
Virginia Hispanic Population Triples in 16 Years
Virginia’s Hispanic population tripled from 1990 to 2006, to more than 460,000 or 6 percent of the population, according to a study released Feb. 25 by the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
March 4, 2008
Latinx
North Carolina Hispanic Group Works on Achievement Issues
The North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals has kicked off a fundraising campaign to hire staff to raise the group’s profile and bolster its political influence.
March 4, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Making Strides
HBCUs seek progress on information technology resources.
March 4, 2008
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