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HBCUs
Diverse on the Go …
Senior Writer Jamal Watson is in New Orleans through Saturday covering the 74th Annual Convention of the College Language Association. If you can’t catch up to him in person, you can connect via jwatson1@diverseeducation.com or follow him on twitter @jamalericwatson
March 26, 2014
HBCUs
University of Pennsylvania Center Aims to Turn MSI Research Into Results
The Penn Center for Minority-Serving Institutions (CMSI) was created to highlight and advance the contributions of MSIs in higher education.
March 26, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Teaching Students the Process to Societal Change
One aspect that I try to instill in my students is that very little that is accomplished is done so alone
March 25, 2014
Community Colleges
Mississippi College Savings Plan to Reopen Enrollment
JACKSON, Miss.—A board has voted unanimously to re-open enrollment this fall in the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program. The state-backed savings plan had been closed to new enrollees since the fall of 2012 because of concerns about a funding shortfall. State Treasurer Lynn Fitch says in a news release that when the board voted […]
March 25, 2014
Students
Univ. of Baltimore Paying Students to Graduate on Time
Under a new program, Finish4Free, the first of its kind in the country, the University of Baltimore will pay for incoming freshmen’s final semester tuition.
March 25, 2014
Students
Morgan State Constructing New School of Business in Honor of Earl Graves
Morgan State University is constructing an $80 million facility that will house the School of Business and Management, which was named in 2005 after Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl G. Graves Sr.
March 25, 2014
Community Colleges
In Case You Missed It …
Diverse Conversations: Potential Paths to Reforming College Debt Many Institutions Continue to Struggle With Gender Imbalance If You Dare to Discuss Racial Issues, Then You Are a Racist American Council on Education Wary of Obama Administration’s Plan to Rank Schools
March 20, 2014
HBCUs
Jackson State Wins Approval for $47M Dorm Complex
Jackson State University is moving ahead with a $47.3 million plan to build a new 628-bed housing complex, a 650-seat dining hall and a conference center, to be finished by January 2016.
March 20, 2014
HBCUs
HBCUs Gather in Silicon Valley for Innovation, Entrepreneurship Symposium
Nearly 100 HBCU stakeholders are meeting at a symposium this week seeking to leverage the intellectual capital and top-tier research activity at HBCUs into dollars needed to ensure institutional viability in the years to come.
March 20, 2014
Faculty & Staff
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Names Tuajuanda Jordan President
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has named a dean and scientist from Lewis and Clark College as the school’s next president.
March 19, 2014
HBCUs
UC Berkeley Hires First Wikipedian-in-Residence
Kevin Gorman has been hired to advise students and professors on editing Wikipedia articles.
March 18, 2014
Asian American Pacific Islander
Calif. Democrats Scrap Higher Ed Affirmative Action Amendment
Bowing to pressure from within their party, Democrats in the legislature abandoned an attempt to repeal California’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action in the state’s higher education system.
March 18, 2014
Sports
States Looking at $0 Community College Tuition
Nothing sparks consumer demand like the word “free,” and politicians in some states have proposed the idea of providing that incentive to get young people to attend community college.
March 18, 2014
Community Colleges
Calif. College Student Arrested in Plot to Fight in Syria
Beginning last spring, Nicholas Teausant began expressing on his online photography account a desire to see America’s downfall.
March 17, 2014
HBCUs
Data breach response costs IU more than $80,000
University reported last month that student information was unsecured for more than 11 months.
March 17, 2014
Disabilties
It’s Called Class Warfare
So, we can solve inequality by blaming the poor?
March 17, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Southern Miss Wins Race, Origin, Ethnic Suit from Former Grad Student
Court of Appeals upholds decision that dismissed the case of Maria Salcido vs. the University of Southern Mississippi for race, national origin and ethnic discrimination.
March 16, 2014
Community Colleges
Colleges Offer to Pay Students to Take Year Off
Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that they can benefit from “gap years.”
March 16, 2014
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