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Leadership & Policy

San Jose State President Bans Campus Blood Drives as Part of Nondiscrimination Policy

San Jose State University President Don Kassing has suspended all campus blood drives in protest of a longstanding government policy that bars gays from donating blood and called the policy discriminatory, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News.

February 4, 2008

Dartmouth President To Step Down

Dartmouth College President James Wright will step down next year to spend more time working to help wounded veterans go to college and rededicating himself to his academic field of study.

February 3, 2008

Spellings in Alabama, Announces Plan for Reading Program Increase

MONTGOMERY Ala. Educators, legislators and state officials met with U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings Friday for a round-table discussion about No Child Left Behind that was at turns critical and complimentary, but always candid. “I thought it was stimulating conversation. I think it was straight from the heart and from professional people who are in […]

February 3, 2008

Tribe Likely to Vote on UND Nickname

BISMARCK N.D. Members of the Spirit Lake Nation likely will vote on whether to support the University of North Dakota’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname, the tribe’s leader says. Chairwoman Myra Pearson said Saturday that the tribe has grown tired of the issue. “It’s been something that’s not as important as our health care or housing or […]

February 3, 2008

Native Americans

MSU Program Seeks to Educate American Indian School Administrators

BOZEMAN Mont. A Montana State University program that aims to more than triple the number of American Indians serving as principals and superintendents in the state recently received a $1.3 million federal grant to continue its work, the university said. The program, Indian Leadership and Development or ILEAD, seeks to reduce the administrative turnover at […]

February 3, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Couple Gives $1M to UCLA to Boost Chinese-U.S. Relations

LOS ANGELES Two Bel-Air residents said they will donate $1 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, to set up the nation’s first endowed academic chair on U.S.-China relations and Chinese American studies. Walter and Shirley Wang, who own a plastic piping firm, said Friday they want to promote understanding of China in the […]

February 3, 2008

Native Americans

San Francisco State To Become Third California University To Offer Bachelor’s in American Indian Studies

San Francisco State University, home to the only College of Ethnic Studies in the United States, has added a bachelor’s degree in American Indian studies this semester.

February 2, 2008

Pancho, College Bound: Chicano Creator’s Debut Film About University Life is Already a Winner

Recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau state that of the 16.6 million college students enrolled in colleges across country in 2003, 10 percent were Hispanic. Of those 1.6 million Hispanic students, at least one is a student like Pancho, very poor but determined; excited about going to college but unsure of its expectations.

January 31, 2008

Just the Stats: U.S. Behind in College Degrees

The United States is quickly falling behind other industrialized nations in terms of adults who hold a college degree, and minority groups are the least likely to attain that level of education, according to a recent report released by higher-education groups examining a state-by state analysis on access and equal opportunity for postsecondary education.

January 30, 2008

Study: Hispanic Freshman Want ‘Helicopter Parents’

The conventional wisdom has it that so-called helicopter parents are annoying their children by hovering over their every move as they apply to college. But it turns out most freshmen are happy with how involved mom and dad were during their college search.

January 30, 2008

Mexican-American Helps Minnesota Minorities Win Chance at College

MINNEAPOLIS Back in Elgin, Ill., Jennifer Godinez’s childhood home was a popular gathering spot for the neighborhood kids.

January 30, 2008

NCAA Gives Texas A&M $100,000 Grant to Study Diversity Practices in College Athletics

In an effort to promote diversity in Division I athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has given Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport a $100,000 grant to identify colleges and universities that develop outstanding diversity practices in their athletic departments. Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport will use the grant to conduct research, […]

January 30, 2008

Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand on The DREAM Act?

As the presidential race heats up, a segment of the non-voting population as well as voters on both sides of the debate to help undocumented students access college will be watching to see where the candidates stand on the DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act).

January 26, 2008

When Diversity Training Goes Awry

Done incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities.

January 23, 2008

Transformations Through

In a day when top radio show hosts hurl sexist and racist remarks at women college athletes and White college students don Afro wigs and gold teeth at parties, it is clear that many are in need of diversity training.

January 23, 2008

2008 Budget: A Mix of Winners and Losers

Controversial Upward Bound experiment halted, and some MSIs win in earmarks.

January 23, 2008

When Diversity Training Goes Awry

Done incorrectly, what should be a useful exercise can and has backfired on some colleges and universities.

January 23, 2008

Encouraging The Discouraged

An HSI, Heritage University serves a population that most other institutions have essentially written off as nothing more than farm laborers and service workers.

January 23, 2008