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Faculty & Staff

Sparks Fly at HBCU Week Session on Wage Disparities Study

Washington Hundreds of top administrators and faculty gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the HBCU Week Conference, which concluded Tuesday. Attendees were exposed to a wide array of programming focused on a “fulfilling the covenant” theme, inspired by Tavis Smiley’s best-selling book, The Covenant With Black America.

September 11, 2007

New Web Site Aims to Ease the College Credit Transfer Process

The Institute for Higher Education Policy on Monday announced the launch of an enhanced Web site for the National Articulation and Transfer Network (NATN), www.natn.org, which leaders hope will become a one-stop resource for addressing the complex issues associated with the transfer process.

September 10, 2007

U.S. Civil Rights Commission Condemns Affirmative Action In Law School Admissions

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is condemning affirmative action in law school admissions and calling on Congress to mandate law schools to publicly disclose their use of racial preferences in a report that critics say relies heavily on the questionable research of one anti-affirmative action advocate.

September 9, 2007

How MSIs Fared in the Budget Agreement

House and Senate negotiators have finalized a higher education investment package with a significant Pell grant increase along with an additional $500 million for minority-serving institutions such as Black colleges and Hispanic-serving universities.

September 6, 2007

Community Colleges

SAAB Tackling the Black, Brown Male Crisis

Increasingly, dropping out of high school is a one-way ticket to prison for Black men.

September 5, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007

Report: Federal Aid to Schools Devastated By Hurricane Katrina Woefully Inadequate

WASHINGTON Gulf Coast schools decimated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita two years ago are still waiting for promised federal help, a new report finds. The study, released Wednesday by the Southern Education Foundation, reveals that a lack of government intervention has caused as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students to stay out of school.

August 29, 2007

Community Colleges

New Study: California Community College Students Abandon Transfer Plans At High Rate

Six in 10 California community college system students with high school diplomas and transfer aspirations are giving up transfer plans or dropping out after only one semester, a new study reveals. Research conducted by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) also finds that two-year college students taking four classes or more are far more likely to transfer.

August 22, 2007

Community Colleges

On the Big Screen: Poor Us

In the new documentary “Indoctrinate U.,” filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney poses this question: What do all of the colleges and universities featured in U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 have in common?

August 22, 2007

Community Colleges

College Prep For Tykes

When longtime educator David Silver began making plans for an elementary school, he asked parents in the Oakland, Calif., neighborhood what mattered most to them.

August 22, 2007

Stop Snitchin Start Studying

The National Black College Alliance, a grassroots booster of historically Black colleges and universities, is using T-shirts and its unique spin on popular culture to promote HBCUs.

August 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The Secrets Behind Their Success

Attracting and graduating minorities in large numbers, for-profit universities offer access, convenience and some risk.

August 22, 2007

Moving Forward

For some faculty displaced by Hurricane Katrina, relocating has been a mixed blessing, but others still long

August 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Disappearing Acts: The Vanishing Black Male On Community College Campuses

Many consider community colleges “open door” institutions, denoting their unique role of providing an affordable and quality education for the masses.

August 22, 2007

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

The Evolution of a Texas HBCU

Now majority Hispanic, the historically black st. philip’s college has positioned itself to serve an increasingly diverse San Antonio population.

August 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Community colleges face ‘double-whammy’ from budget cuts

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Community colleges are facing a “double-whammy” from impending spending cuts because their enrollment is soaring although their budgets are based on last year’s attendance, Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp acknowledged Wednesday.

August 14, 2007