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Section: Demographics
Faculty & Staff
HBCUs Must Rethink Holistic Operations
A structured approach to peeling back the layers of issues facing HBCUs is a reasonable way to proceed along the path to providing reasonable strategies for making lasting positive changes.
May 13, 2013
Disabilties
New Indiana Law Gives Veterans More Access to College
A bill signed into law last week allowing veterans greater access to a more-affordable college education will keep Vincennes University among the top schools for military and former military personnel.
May 13, 2013
Disabilties
Interstate Reciprocity Plan Expected to Transform U.S. Distance Education
A prominent group of accreditors, regulators and other higher education and state leaders, has unveiled a comprehensive plan detailing how states could simplify and transform the regulation of U.S. distance education.
May 13, 2013
Students
NCEE Report Urges Fresh Approach to Path to Math
Despite taking high school algebra, geometry and often advanced algebra, most first-year students are placed in remedial math in community college because they’re not properly prepared.
May 12, 2013
African-American
Experts Say Getting More Teachers of Color in Classrooms a Necessity
HBCUs, which produce 50 percent of the nation’s Black educators, are trying to change approaches to recruitment, retention and society’s view of teaching.
May 12, 2013
Disabilties
AAUW Urges Action on Child Care, Women’s STEM Participation at Community Colleges
The American Association of University Women released a report to highlight the need for child care services at community colleges as well as the role two-year schools can play to provide STEM opportunities for women.
May 9, 2013
Native Americans
Chief Group Wants to Resurrect Mascot at University of Illinois
A group of University of Illinois graduates who in the past portrayed Chief Illiniwek is pitching a plan to bring back the former mascot.
May 8, 2013
Faculty & Staff
First Generation Civil Rights Fellows Head to Washington
This summer, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law will introduce its First Generation Civil Rights Fellowship (FirstGEN) program for undergraduate students who intend to pursue careers in social justice.
May 7, 2013
African-American
FAMU Names New Band Director
Dr. Sylvester Young, a Florida A&M University graduate and former member of the Marching 100 band, will join the university on June 14 as the new director of marching and pep bands.
May 7, 2013
African-American
Sotomayor Makes Herself at Home at NYC Literature Festival
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said she wants to be called just “Sonia from the Bronx.”
May 6, 2013
Asian American Pacific Islander
Higher Ed and the Dreamers: The Big Winners in Immigration Bill By Far
Compromise is imperfect, but colleges and universities have to be happy with the immigration bill as it stands.
May 6, 2013
Students
Uncovering Racism: White Greeks in Blackface
I must join the recent outrage over White Greek fraternities and sororities (and an Asian fraternity recently) donning blackface and performing blackness on our college campuses.
May 6, 2013
Students
City College of New York Honors Colin Powell
General Colin Powell returned to his alma mater, City College of New York, to commemorate the school’s decision to rename its division of social sciences after him.
May 5, 2013
African-American
These Junior Rocket Scientists Have Their Sights on Top-Flight Colleges
Team Rocket Power is the only African-American all-girls team to qualify for national finals of the Team America Rocketry Challenge.
May 5, 2013
Faculty & Staff
American Indian Activist Horse Capture Dies
American Indian activist, curator and professor George Horse Capture has died in Great Falls. He was 75.
May 2, 2013
Students
HBCUs Trying to Undo Damage Resulting From Federal Parent Plus Loans Revisions
While the U.S. Department of Education eventually bowed to demands that the new rules be revisited, it’s still unknown how many families had their loan applications reconsidered and approved.
May 2, 2013
Students
Last of 4 Charged With Hazing Virginia State University Students
Chesterfield County police said Tuesday that the last of four men charged with hazing after two Virginia State University students drowned is in custody.
April 30, 2013
Students
UNCF Boss in Business of Promoting Academic Success
After a successful seven-year stint as president at Dillard, Dr. Michael Lomax decided that he wanted to make a larger impact.
April 30, 2013
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