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HBCUs
Enhanced HBCU Teacher Preparation Role Discussed at U.S. Education Department Meeting
A national strategy to avert teacher shortages as well as improve overall teaching quality in U.S. public schools will include the participation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as key players in the formulation of strategic policies, U.S. Education Department officials told a gathering of HBCU education school officials and HBCU presidents on Tuesday.
June 9, 2009
Students
Higher Education Association Blasts Graduation Rate Data Used in Think Tank Report
One week after the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative Washington-based think tank, released a report scrutinizing colleges and universities with low six-year graduation rates, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) issued a policy brief criticizing the way graduation rate information is collected.
June 8, 2009
Students
Report Scrutinizes Colleges With Low Graduation Rates, Including MSIs
Less than 60 percent of new students graduate from the nation’s four-year colleges and universities within six years, according to a new study, and the rate is even lower at most of the historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions included in the study.
June 2, 2009
Sports
NCAA Women of Color Symposium Launches Recruitment and Retention Strategy Campaign
A recent NCAA report showed that ethnic minority women make up only 1.6 percent of athletic directors at institutions involved in intercollegiate athletics at the Division I, II and III levels – including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Drop HBCUs from the equation and the rate falls under 1 percent.
May 28, 2009
HBCUs
Tuskegee President To Deliver Lincoln Memorial Rededication Address
Tuskegee University president, Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, will deliver the principal address this weekend at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to rededicate the monument in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln.
May 27, 2009
Latinx
HSIs, Others Look to Census for Aid to Schools, Communities
Advocacy groups are seeing to it that the U.S. Census Bureau has the necessary resources to count all U.S. residents effectively.
May 27, 2009
Students
Honing Athletic Skills, Academics at Community Colleges
Athletic programs build community and help mold a student’s identity.
May 27, 2009
Community Colleges
Professional Appoitments
BEN BRINEY has been appointed head coach of the Truman State University (Ala.) volleyball team. He previously served as the team’s assistant. Briney earned a bachelor’s from Southwest Baptist University. DR. LINDA M. BLEICKEN has been named president of Armstrong Atlantic State University (Ga.). Previously, she served as provost and vice president for academic affairs […]
May 27, 2009
Community Colleges
Obama Administration Announces National Program for Green Jobs, Training
Vice President Joe Biden and two Cabinet secretaries unveiled a national program Tuesday to train workers for “green jobs” that will make public housing more energy-efficient.
May 26, 2009
HBCUs
Former NC HBCU Leader To Lead North Carolina A&T
Dr. Harold L. Martin, a former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, was named the chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University this past Friday by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
May 25, 2009
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Community Colleges
California Budget Crisis Hits Colleges
California voters on Tuesday resoundingly rejected Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s latest effort to fix the state’s budget, a package of budget-balancing measures that he promised would provide a short-term patch for the current financial crisis and prevent further catastrophe in the future.
May 20, 2009
Community Colleges
College Students, Academic Advisers Increasingly Engaging in Recession-proof Career Planning
The recession has guided Americans’ decisions about travel, health care and even what brand of soda to purchase.
May 14, 2009
Community Colleges
THE TOP 100: ASSOCIATE RANKINGS
This year, Diverse has added a new addition to its annual Top 100 degree producers series — recognizing, with this edition, the institutions that award the most associate degrees to students of color.
May 13, 2009
HBCUs
HBCU Students Dressing for Success
Weary of seeing young men roll into class wearing do-rags, pajama bottoms or sagging pants, North Carolina Central University student body president Kent Williams Jr. resolved to address the issue on campus after seeing then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on MTV.
May 13, 2009
Students
The Community College Transfer Problem
Boosting student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions is a matter of getting all the right policies and programs in place.
May 13, 2009
Latinx
Volunteer Service Capacity Bill May Benefit MSIs
The Kennedy Serve America Act would create a variety of programs, including an Education Corps to help low-income youth improve educational achievement.
May 13, 2009
HBCUs
Black Colleges Will Fight Cut to Federal Program
Leaders of historically Black colleges say they’ll fight a reduction in a federal program they call a financial lifeline at a time of economic distress for the schools and their students.
May 10, 2009
HBCUs
New Graduates Face Difficult Job Market
As they hit the job market in the midst of an economic recession, many minority students of the class of 2009 may find themselves at an even greater disadvantage if they have not developed the contacts needed to get them in the door for an interview.
May 10, 2009
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