Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Search

Section: Demographics
Students
High School Graduation Rates Low Where Most American Indians, Alaska Natives Live, Report Says
A new national report has found that fewer than 50 percent of Native American Indian and Alaska Native students from the Pacific and Northwest regions of the U. S. graduate from high school.
February 18, 2010
Native Americans
African-American
Racially-Targeted Billboard Campaign Links African-Americans, Abortion
Among African-American leaders opposing a racially-targeted pro-life billboard campaign, Spelman College professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall called the effort a gimmick to “bait Black people” into becoming anti-abortion.
February 16, 2010
Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Faculty & Staff
Black Professor Denied Tenure at Emerson Vindicated by Report
Emerson College has released a report produced by an independent panel that has found fault with the institution’s tenure process.
February 15, 2010
Pierre Desir
Students
Leaders Mark 50th Anniversary of Nashville Sit-ins
Civil rights leaders observing Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement that would integrate Nashville’s lunch counters said that pivotal group of college students went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement across the South.
February 14, 2010
James Lawson
Students
Private Colleges Outline New College Success Initiative
The nation’s private colleges and universities pledged Friday to boost efforts to enroll and graduate at-risk students, as leaders said the move would complement the Obama administration’s plans for greater success rates in higher education.
February 14, 2010
David L. Warren
African-American
WVU Reprinting Long-lost African American Works
West Virginia University Press is reprinting important African American texts that have either gone unnoticed for generations or fallen out of print.
February 11, 2010
African-American
Black History Special Book Review: Redefining ‘Black Power’
Images from the heyday of the Black Power movement live on in popular culture, but the view tends to be blurred. Most people probably consider it as a blip on the 400-year chronology of race relations in America. While some Americans romanticize the movement, others remember it as a short-lived, inflammatory and ill-advised crusade that ran against the tide of peaceful efforts to gain and protect civil rights.
February 11, 2010
Peniel Joseph
Students
Black History Special: Students Mentored By Civil Rights Veterans Changed American History
In 1960, students attending colleges and universities in Greensboro, N.C., Nashville, and locations throughout the South staged sit-ins at store lunch counters and restaurants in protest of public segregation. Many of those who came under the influence of civil rights pioneers, James Lawson and Ella Baker, went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement.
February 10, 2010
student protests
Students
Lastword – Black Greek Deathwatch
After the hand-wringing over a hazing death comes a period of reckless behavior leading to yet another death. Will we stop the cycle?
February 9, 2010
Walter Kimbrough
Students
U.S. Colleges Recruit Hispanic Families Using Spanish
Some venerable American universities are trying to tap the booming pool of Hispanic students by offering Spanish translations of their admissions and financial aid material.
February 8, 2010
Latinx
Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions Must Adapt to Serve Latino Students, Report Says
Dozens of schools will qualify for “Hispanic-serving institution” (HSI) status in the coming years, but those colleges and universities must adapt their practices and policies to better serve Latino students, according to the Washington-based Excelencia in Education organization.
February 4, 2010
Juan Sepulveda, director of the White House Initiative on Education Excellence for Hispanic Americans
Students
Judge Dismisses Suit Against AKA President and Sorority
A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by eight members of the nation’s oldest black sorority, who accused the group’s president of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper compensation and spending sorority money on a wax statue of herself and other questionable purposes.
February 3, 2010
Barbara McKinzie, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
Sports
Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13
Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.
February 2, 2010
A museum dedicated to the late Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson (pictured) opens on the Grambling State University campus on Feb. 13.
Faculty & Staff
Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’
Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.
February 1, 2010
Kofi Lomotey
Latinx
Obama Budget Plans More for Education
Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.
February 1, 2010
President Barack Obama
Leadership & Policy
JSU President Defends Black College ‘Unity’ Plan
Jackson State University (JSU) President Dr. Ronald Mason has received a sharp rebuke from Black lawmakers and supporters of historically Black colleges and universities over his proposal to unite JSU with the state’s other two historically Black universities.
January 31, 2010
Ronald Mason
African-American
U.S. Racial History Less Understood Among Post-Racial Generation, Scholars Say
After the election of President Barack Obama, some college students consider prejudice and racism as relics of American societal behavior.
January 31, 2010
Michelle Johnson
African-American
Protesters Reflect on Success of Student Sit-ins
Fifty years ago today, four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store, bought a few items, then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America.
January 31, 2010
Greensboro Four statue
Previous Page
Next Page