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Section: Institutions
Students
Influential Lumina Foundation Drives Higher Education Change, Innovation
The Lumina Foundation has a larger impact on the national debate about how to improve higher education, particularly community colleges, than its financial size suggests it should.
August 17, 2010
Faculty & Staff
NSSE Data Helps Institutions Foster Minority Student Success
Founded 11 years ago at Indiana University, the National Survey of Student Engagement program has grown in size and influence. Its annual results are widely reported in the media.
August 15, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Accelerated Community College Program Puts Achievement in Reach for Disadvantaged Students
Ivy Tech Community College’s one-year associate degree program places low-income and first-generation college students on a faster route to higher education attainment.
August 12, 2010
African-American
Obama Urges College Completion Agenda As Economic Imperative
Avoiding pronouncements on affirmative action and immigration reform, President Barack Obama touts college completion agenda during visit to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday.
August 9, 2010
Community Colleges
Report: Adult Learning Programs Needed in U.S. South as Bridge to Post-K-12 Education
The Southern Region Educational Board is urging that Southern states strengthen their adult learning programs to help boost the educational opportunities for the working adult population.
August 5, 2010
Students
Proposed Rules Aimed at For-profit Colleges Explored During Policy Discussion
The for-profit college sector was portrayed as both villain and victim Friday at a Washington policy institute panel discussion on the proposed rules that seek to make the sector more accountable.
August 1, 2010
Latinx
Poll: Despite Low Degree Attainment, Latinos Value Higher Education
Despite strong belief in the value of a college diploma, Hispanics more often than not fall short of that goal.
July 29, 2010
Students
National Urban League Convention Considers College Success, K-12 Education Reform
The rough road to a college degree can be made smoother for first-generation and low-income students if society begins to step up support in the areas of academic support, mentoring and financial aid, according to education experts at the National Urban League’s 100th Anniversary Convention.
July 29, 2010
African-American
Minority-Serving Schools Gain Victory in Science Consolidation Battle
A U.S. Senate panel has rejected White House plans to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving colleges and universities, noting that these postsecondary institutions reap significant gains under the existing system.
July 27, 2010
Students
Proposed Federal Rules Target For-profit Colleges
The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations this past Friday that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of their students default on loans or don’t earn enough after graduation to repay them.
July 26, 2010
Students
Fayetteville State University to Launch College Journalism Program
This fall, Fayetteville State, a historically Black university, debuts an undergraduate program in journalism, four years after creating one in mass communication.
July 26, 2010
African-American
William and Mary Professor Thinks He Found Oldest Black School
A College of William and Mary professor thinks he may have found the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for African-American children.
July 25, 2010
Students
Hometown Hero Clyburn Brings Federal Spending to South Carolina
U.S. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn brings federal financial support to better Morris College and its surrounding communities in his native Sumter, S.C. This is the second of two features DiverseEducation.com has published this week on Clyburn.
July 22, 2010
African-American
Clyburn Remains Rooted as a Rising Power in Congress
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn has fought for the historically marginalized since his college days. When he was a student at South Carolina State College in the late 1950s, his political activism compelled classmates to refer to him jokingly as “senator.” This is the first of two features on Clyburn.
July 21, 2010
Students
Advocates Urge Quick Action on Rules Governing For-profits
For-profit postsecondary Institutions account for 10 percent of enrolled U.S. college students but 44 percent of student loan defaults.
July 20, 2010
Students
Who is Marybeth Gasman?
People are surprised, and not always pleasantly so, to discover that Dr. Marybeth Gasman, one of the leading scholars on historically Black colleges and universities, is White. When she was a graduate student, one professor tried to steer her away from the topic, advising her that research of this nature would be “ghettoized.”
July 20, 2010
Faculty & Staff
New Louisiana Community College Campus May Prove Too Small
With President Barack Obama setting a goal of producing 5 million more community college graduates in the next decade, it seems community colleges are finally having their moment.
July 19, 2010
MSIs
Underrepresented Minorities Hit Hard by California Graduate Study Fees
Rising fees for graduate programs at University of California campuses threaten to undermine growth of underrepresented and much-needed minorities in health-science and other professions.
July 19, 2010
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