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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
MSIs
Scholars Blame Low Minority Retention in STEM on Affirmative Action
Minority students are leaving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines in disproportionate numbers before graduating, because affirmative action may be placing students in rigorous academic settings for which they are not prepared, a panel of scholars told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday
September 14, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Texas Colleges Clean Up After Hurricane Ike
While emergency crews in southeast Texas continued rescuing victims and trying to restore normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Ike, the resumption of college classes in the region was uncertain late Sunday.
September 14, 2008
Students
Perspectives: Challenges in Higher Education for the Next President
Unlike the Middle East or the housing industry, the next president will not face an immediate crisis in addressing the issue of higher education in the United States.
September 14, 2008
Sports
Hoops Hall Looks to Honor Black Schools’ Coaches
Savannah State coach Teddy Wright was so good that legends grew up around him. Like the time he supposedly split his squad in two, sending half to play a game in the Southwest and the other half to play against a school on East Coast.
September 11, 2008
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HBCUs
UNCF Unveils Plan to Give HBCUs New Voice
Seeking to capitalize on recent successes such as the renewal of the Higher Education Act, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) on Wednesday unveiled a detailed new legislative agenda along with plans to raise awareness of historically Black colleges in Congress.
September 10, 2008
HBCUs
Media Experts Say HBCU Radio Stations Are Underused
Historically Black colleges and universities must continue to invest financial and personnel resources into campus radio stations, because the stations are powerful outlets that present a wide range of opportunities for the institutions, said a panel of media experts Wednesday during a forum on campus media at the 2008 National HBCU Week.
September 10, 2008
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Native Americans
ECSU Honors Mashantucket Pequot Chairman
Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic conferred an honorary doctorate on Michael Thomas, chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation during a Convocation ceremony on Aug. 29, in the Francis E. Geissler Sports Center Gymnasium, officials announced recently.
September 9, 2008
Students
Bonds to Faculty Help Keep Latinos in STEM Majors
Latino students who major in math, sciences, and technology have a better academic performance if they also have strong relationships with the faculty, according to a recent study from the University of Southern California.
September 9, 2008
HBCUs
NAFEO Report Highlights HBCU Role in Graduating Black Students, Attracting Diversity
A report released by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Tuesday credited historically Black colleges and universities with a disproportionately large share of Black educational gains over the past two decades.
September 9, 2008
Community Colleges
Student GOP Leader Resigns Over Obama Remark
The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Sen. Barack Obama on the Internet.
September 9, 2008
HBCUs
Secretary of State Rice Calls for Investment in HBCUs
With historically Black colleges and universities graduating a significant percentage of Black students who pursue doctoral degrees in medicine, mathematics, science and engineering, we must continue to invest resources into these institutions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.
September 8, 2008
Native Americans
Tribal College Expanding Campus
United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck is officially marking the start of a campus expansion with a ceremony Friday at a 135-acre tract of land immediately south of the current campus.
September 7, 2008
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