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Students
NEW STATE OF LEADERSHIP:MINORITIES BREAK COLOR BARRIERS IN TOP ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONS.
Pennsylvania, the state with the sixth-largest population in the country with more than 12 million people, reportedly has more than 450 public and private colleges, universities and career and technical training schools.
December 9, 2009
Leadership & Policy
KEYSTONE STATE OF CONFUSION
Students and parents may require a road map to navigate Pennsylvania’s diverse and often complex higher education landscape.
December 9, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHYNEWS: A NEGLECTED NATIONAL TREASURE
When Dr. Michelle R. Howard-Vital became president of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black universities (HBCU) in 2007, she knew she “inherited a national treasure that has produced some extraordinary leaders.”
December 9, 2009
Students
WASHINGTON UPDATE: FARRAH NOT RESTING ON GEAR UP
After nearly 15 years on Capitol Hill, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., still has lofty goals for U.S. education policy in the years ahead.
December 9, 2009
Faculty & Staff
SPECTRUM: GROWING BY LEAPS WITHOUT BOUNDS
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi is familiar to millions of viewers on the popular PBS “History Detectives” program, a television series in its eighth season devoted to “exploring the complexities of historical mysteries.
December 9, 2009
African-American
Accreditation Reaffirmed for Fisk University, Three Other HBCUs
Four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), including financially troubled Fisk University, had their accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) reaffirmed for another 10 years.
December 8, 2009
Fisk University Graduation
Community Colleges
California Higher Ed Chiefs Urge Renewed Investment
The heads of California’s three-tiered higher education system urged state legislators to boost investment in California higher education.
December 7, 2009
Charles Reed
Students
Reviving A Neglected National Treasure
Cheyney University appoints advisory panel to revitalize academics and operations at the struggling historically Black institution.
December 6, 2009
Cheyney University advisory panel members
Students
Fattah Not Resting on GEAR UP’s Laurels
After nearly 15 years on Capitol Hill, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., still has lofty goals for U.S. education policy in the years ahead.
December 3, 2009
African-American
Documentarian Develops Curricula to Dispel HIV/AIDS Myths in Black Community
When Claudia Pryor’s cousin was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, she was the only family member willing to visit him. As a gay Black man, his family ostracized him.
December 2, 2009
Claudia Pryor
Leadership & Policy
Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement
U.S. Education Department under secretary is driving the Obama administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.
December 1, 2009
U.S. Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter
African-American
HBCUs Step Up to the HIV Challenge
Impact of HIV on Blacks compels historically Black colleges and universities to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.
November 30, 2009
Howard U. AIDS Ribbon
Community Colleges
For-profit Colleges Haul in Government Aid
An Associated Press analysis shows surging proportions of both low-income students and the recently boosted government money that follows them are ending up at for-profit schools, from local career colleges to giant publicly traded chains such as the University of Phoenix, Kaplan and Devry.
November 29, 2009
HBCUs
WASHINGTON UPDATE: HBCUs on Board with Direct Lending
System won’t pose expensive administrative burdens for private and small public historically Black schools, HBCU association leaders say.
November 25, 2009
Faculty & Staff
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Answering the Call
Impact of HIV on Blacks compels HBCUs to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.
November 25, 2009
Faculty & Staff
AWASH IN WISDOM
Tribal colleges employ elders to impart a higher level of learning that cannot be found in traditional classrooms and textbooks.
November 25, 2009
HBCUs
ACCELERATING AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
Dr. Martha Kanter, the U. S. Education under secretary, is driving the administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.
November 25, 2009
Faculty & Staff
National Faculty Group Convened at Atlanta HBCUs Urged to Help Determine U.S. Education Priorities
Faculty members from more than 50 U.S. colleges and universities gathered in Atlanta for the Faculty Resource Network’s annual national symposium, which was held this year at three neighboring historically Black campuses.
November 24, 2009
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