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Section: Institutions
Students
University of New Orleans Tries Marketing Blitz to Stem Student Losses
The University of New Orleans is putting its name everywhere from social media outlets to highway billboards and trailers at local movie theaters.
January 14, 2013
Sports
Iraqis Latest Recruited International Students to Attend University of Cincinnati
Students from Iraq are the latest products of overseas recruiting by the University of Cincinnati, which is building enrollment and revenues with international students.
January 14, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Playing for the President, Grambling Marching Band to Return to Washington
The Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band expects to make history as the only college or university band to perform during the Obama inauguration parades of 2009 and 2013.
January 14, 2013
Leadership & Policy
FBI Probed SC State as Legislative Audit Unfolded
In summer 2011, officials at South Carolina State University were defending the school’s transportation center, a multi-million-dollar project in which a state audit had found mismanagement and poor planning but no overt impropriety.
January 13, 2013
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Presidents Stood Up for Civil Rights
This past December, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) released two new videos in their series of oral history videos that link seasoned activists with emergent leaders.
January 13, 2013
HBCUs
UO Diversity Official Defends Personnel Changes
A University of Oregon administrator defended her decision to restructure the Office of Equity and Inclusion and demote three vice presidents.
January 10, 2013
Community Colleges
Indiana to Incentivize Graduation
Indiana’s education chief says lawmakers need to make wiser investments in higher education to improve the state’s college graduation rate, including new financial aid incentives for students who earn top grades and graduate on time.
January 10, 2013
HBCUs
FAMU Student Paper Faces Hazing-Related Libel Suit
Florida A&M University’s student newspaper has delayed publication of its first spring semester edition, due in part to a libel suit over a hazing story.
January 9, 2013
Community Colleges
Dr. Gerardo Dominguez’s Work Explores Natural Phenomena
Dr. Gerardo Dominguez’s push to excel academically was fueled by a desire for respect, something not necessarily afforded to a poor Hispanic kid growing up in Los Angeles.
January 9, 2013
Community Colleges
UC Online Courses Attract Few Outside Students
The University of California has spent more than $4 million marketing its new online courses, but so far it’s attracting few students outside the UC system.
January 8, 2013
Community Colleges
Report: College Savings Plans Utilized by a Wealthy Few
The few Americans who participate in federal programs that help families save money for their children’s college education are primarily wealthy, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says in a new report.
January 8, 2013
Disabilties
Gallaudet Reinstates Official Who Signed Petition
Gallaudet University has reinstated its chief diversity officer after a 3-month paid suspension for signing a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland.
January 7, 2013
African-American
Free at Last!
This month, we not only celebrate the inauguration of the first black U.S. president to his second term, on Jan. 20, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on Jan. 21, but we also mark the 150th anniversary of the date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Jan. 1, 1883. That makes this a fitting time to look at books about Lincoln’s time.
January 4, 2013
Students
Colleges Step In to Fill Students’ Social-Skills Gaps
Programs are designed to give students the kinds of social skills they need to get and keep a job.
January 3, 2013
Students
Faculty Diversity a Topic of Discussion at MLA Annual Convention
The 128th Modern Language Association convention features hundreds of sessions covering a variety of topics related to American and European literature.
January 3, 2013
Community Colleges
Michigan Allows Community Colleges to Offer Some 4-Year Degree Programs
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a law that will allow community colleges to grant bachelor’s degrees in several fields of study.
January 2, 2013
Students
Morgan State Promotes Financial Literacy
All too often, students rack up a great amount of debt while in college and this practice sets them up for failure once they earn their degree.
January 2, 2013
MSIs
Higher Education Spared Cuts — For Now
Higher education programs and education-related tax breaks get a reprieve of at least 60 days as a result of the agreement by President Obama and Congress that averts the “fiscal cliff.”
January 2, 2013
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