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Section: Institutions
Latinx
Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children
To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.
February 17, 2011
Community Colleges
Civil Right Groups Urge Congress to Protect âGainful Employmentâ Rule
Citing the need to protect students of color, civil rights organizations Wednesday urged Congress to reject a House Republican plan that would prevent the Obama administration from issuing new rules on the operation of for-profit career colleges.
February 16, 2011
Community Colleges
Lawmakers Target Obama Plan on For-Profit Colleges
A pair of Washington lawmakers say they will seek to limit federal Education Department spending on an Obama administration Biographies Plus Newsplan designed to better track studentsâ academic performance at for-profit colleges.
February 15, 2011
Latinx
Study: California State Northridge Students Hit Hard by Recession
The report, âSqueezed From All Sides,â blames Californiaâs recession and education cuts for pushing students to the breaking point, with some reporting they must forgo college.
February 15, 2011
Community Colleges
Regaining the Edge in American Higher Education
Can American higher education regain its edge? A group of advocates, policymakers and scholars attempted to answer this question Tuesday during a Washington think tank policy forum.
February 15, 2011
Students
Obama Budget Protects Pell Grants, Sets Education Priorities
President Obama presented a 2012 budget that has limited increases for education but a commitment to protect the current $5,550 maximum Pell Grant, which is the subject of potential cuts on Capitol Hill.
February 14, 2011
Latinx
Yale, Peruvian University Sign Deal on Incan Artifacts
Yale University announced that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.
February 13, 2011
Students
New Federal Data Show Rising Student Loan Default Rates
The federal governmentâs new system to calculate student loan default rates â while highlighting the problems of many for-profit colleges â also may pose risks for some minority-serving institutions that are seeing their rates increase as well.
February 13, 2011
African-American
CIAA Commissioner Remains Bullish on Charlotte
CIAA Commissioner Leon Kerry remains bullish on Charlotte despite the city being the target of protests and criticism from Black leaders.
February 10, 2011
Students
HBCU President Brings Sex and Health Education to the Campus
Sex Week, Philander Smithâs first-ever campus wide sexual education forum, brought students together with medical, religious, health, and relationship experts.
February 10, 2011
Students
Achieve Report Shows States Embracing College and Career Readiness Standards
Six years after coining the term âexpectation gap,â a nonprofit groupâs study proves that states are paying attention.
February 6, 2011
Community Colleges
Catching Up With Walter Bumphus
Dr. Walter Bumphus sits down with Diverse to discuss his plans as head of the AACC.
February 6, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Maryland Lawsuit Targets Undocumented Studentsâ Local Tuition Break
A Maryland community college is facing a lawsuit over its policy to provide low âin-countyâ tuition rates to any recent graduate of a local high school regardless of immigration status.
February 3, 2011
Students
A Look Inside a Successful Charter School Culture
At Pritzker College Prep charter high school in Chicago, academics are rigorous, teachers have special training and kids are in school more hours than their peers in traditional pubic schools.
February 2, 2011
Community Colleges
Report: Americans Overemphasize College as Key to Upward Mobility
A report released today by Harvard Universityâs Graduate School of Education says the United Statesâ increasing emphasis on a single pathway to success is at least partly to blame for the country falling behind other nations.
February 1, 2011
Latinx
Federal Postsecondary Education Leader Urges Unity on College Completion Message
The many constituencies comprising U.S. higher education should come together to âspeak with one voiceâ to the rest of this country, says Dr. Eduardo Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education.
January 31, 2011
African-American
Colorado Firm Wins $74,000 Contract To Study UNO/SUNO Merger
A Colorado consulting firm will be paid as much as $74,000 to evaluate a proposal to merge Southern University at New Orleans with the nearby University of New Orleans campus.
January 30, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Louisiana Merger Study Puts Southern University Chief, Katrina-damaged Schools in Spotlight
Ronald Mason, the Southern University System President, is once again caught in the middle of a controversy involving a possible HBCU merger.
January 26, 2011
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