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Section: Institutions
Leadership & Policy
LEARNING WHILE UNDOCUMENTED
North Carolina community college students are caught in the cross hairs of illegal immigration opponents.
October 1, 2008
African-American
Native Roots and a Multicultural Future
Established as a school for American Indians, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke has become the most diverse institution among master’s-granting universities in the state.
October 1, 2008
Community Colleges
Republican Education Plan Focuses on Rising College Costs
Sen. John McCain and party officials call for more transparency and restraint in college spending.
September 30, 2008
Sports
S.C. State and Clemson U. Play Historic Football Game
When the final whistle blew, the scoreboard in Death Valley read Clemson 54, South Carolina State 0, but on this Saturday in late September, there was more than a football game being played.
September 29, 2008
HBCUs
Perspectives: Race Not Far From the Surface as Obama Articulates a Message of Transformation.
The recent victory by Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and securing the nomination of his party was supposedly a signal to that party and the nation as a whole that race was a less significant factor in America. That assessment may be premature.
September 29, 2008
Native Americans
17 Tribal Colleges Win Grants
Seventeen tribal colleges have been awarded $4 million through the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Tribal College Grant program to buy equipment, build or renovate classrooms, make repairs and finance improvements.
September 29, 2008
Community Colleges
Alabama Board Bars Undocumented Students from Community Colleges
The state board of education passed a new policy denying undocumented students admission to Alabama’s two-year colleges on Thursday, despite one board member’s calls to delay it for more discussion and four of the nine members being absent.
September 28, 2008
HBCUs
NCCU Degrees Granted Through Ga. Megachurch Deemed Valid
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) has confirmed the validity of 25 North Carolina Central University degrees awarded to students who completed their academic coursework at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia.
September 23, 2008
Community Colleges
Colleges Trading Up Cafeteria Trays
Students will have to find other ways to sled this winter as U.S. colleges retire cafeteria trays to conserve water and energy and cut down on wasted food and water-polluting detergents.
September 17, 2008
MSIs
Democratic Platform Promises More for Education
Education plan includes a tax credit for college students who perform community service and grants for community colleges.
September 17, 2008
Students
Grooming a New Cadre of Faculty Leaders
The Leadership Alliance has produced more than 100 Ph.D.s, one-third of whom are now working in the academy.
September 17, 2008
Students
Building a Friendly Environment for Hispanic Students
In 1963, Bob Dylan wrote and sang about how “The Times They Are A-changing.”
September 17, 2008
Native Americans
Alaska and Washington Schools Win Grants
Grants to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Interior Aleutian campus and the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wash., have been announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
September 16, 2008
Native Americans
$5 Million Awarded to Tribal Colleges
Seven Native American colleges and universities will share $5 million to expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities, to improve student housing, and to support construction of new facilities. the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced.
September 16, 2008
Latinx
Le Cordon Bleu Miami Launches Culinary VIP Series
To support its Spanish-language program, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (LCB Miami) is launching a Visiting Culinary VIP Series, which will bring leading industry restaurateurs, writers, chefs and consultants to the campus.
September 16, 2008
LGBTQ+
Social Justice Group Opens Dialogue on GLBT Issues With Equality Ride
There are more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities that have explicit policies discriminatory toward GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) students, according to Soulforce Q. Since 2006, this young adult division of Soulforce, a social justice organization seeking to end political and religious oppression of GLBT people through nonviolent resistance, has staged Equality Ride.
September 16, 2008
Leadership & Policy
‘On Fire’ for Bennett: A Conversation With President Julianne Malveaux
Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College, recently spoke to Diverse at the end of her first year as president of one of the nation’s only two historically Black colleges for women.
September 15, 2008
Students
Colleges Spend Billions to Prep Freshmen
It’s a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college.
September 15, 2008
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