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Section: Institutions
Students
Achieve Report Shows States Embracing College and Career Readiness Standards
Six years after coining the term “expectation gap,” a nonprofit group’s 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 Students’ Local Tuition Break
A Maryland community college is facing a lawsuit over its policy to provide low “in-county” 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 University’s Graduate School of Education says the United States’ 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 “speak with one voice” 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
Community Colleges
Federal Agencies Announce Community College Grant Program
In what is said to be one of the largest federal investments in community colleges ever, the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Education Department announced a long-awaited $2 billion competitive grant program Thursday meant to support programs that help students and “trade impacted” workers secure jobs in new and growing industries.
January 20, 2011
African-American
HBCUs Tapped for New International Program
With an eye toward the global economy, seven historically Black colleges and universities will participate in a new national initiative to help HBCUs expand their international programs and partnerships while enhancing global learning activities on their own campuses.
January 20, 2011
Students
During Howard University Visit, Michelle Obama Urges Students To Study Abroad
With Chinese leader Hu Jintao visiting Washington this week, First Lady Michelle Obama dropped by Howard University where she urged students to study abroad and help strengthen the U.S. presence in the global community.
January 19, 2011
HBCUs
Two UNC Schools Help Their Bands Meet Rose Parade Costs
The two public universities whose marching bands performed in the Tournament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day relied on alternative resources to take care of what donations couldn’t cover.
January 18, 2011
Leadership & Policy
S.C. Governor Haley Says College Funding Needs Revamping
Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday that South Carolina’s public colleges should be judged on their graduation rates, how many of their students come from outside the state, and their contributions to the economy.
January 18, 2011
African-American
Scholar Deciphers Census Data, Political Climate After Reapportionment
As the Census Bureau cranks out more official results this winter from the 2010 decennial census, political scientist Robert A. Holmes will be poring over the data to see what it portends for Blacks and other minorities and how they can use it to sustain political momentum in this decade.
January 18, 2011
Students
The Unfinished Race
In a new memoir, Dolores Cross describes how she labored to fix Morris Brown College but acknowledges the failings that led to the regrettable end of an otherwise stellar academic career.
January 13, 2011
Students
Cities Take Up Challenge of Helping Increase College Completion Rates
Cities from Hammond, Ind., and New Haven, Conn., to Denver and Pittsburgh have launched city scholarship programs at a time when the U.S. has fallen from first to ninth place in the world in the proportion of young people with college degrees.
January 5, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Black Colleges Step Up Pursuit of Sponsored Research
Envisioning a more competitive future, a number of Black college leaders have challenged their faculties to pursue aggressive research agendas.
January 5, 2011
HBCUs
More Early College Opportunities Coming to N.C.
North Carolina plans next fall to open another high school on a college campus that allows students to earn college credit as they earn a high school diploma.
January 4, 2011
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