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Students
The Model Minority Myth Continues
According to a recent research article, Asian Americans continue to feel immense pressure to conform to the stereotype of the model minority myth, including high educational attainment and hard work.
September 11, 2012
Students
Q&A With Bernard Muir: Continuing Traditions
With more than 20 years in sports administration, Bernard Muir joined Stanford University in August as its new director of athletics.
September 11, 2012
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Community Colleges
Commentary: Community Colleges – An ‘Unsung’ Source of America’s STEM Talent
Some 1,200 community colleges in the U.S. enroll more than 8 million students yearly, which is 43 percent of all undergraduates.
September 10, 2012
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Opinion
Commentary: Futures Linked – Higher Education and Pell Grants
Unfortunately, college access in America is just as much a product of family wealth as it is student performance, writes University of Albany history professor Ibram Rogers.
September 10, 2012
Leadership & Policy
Engaging Latino Alumni: Basic Steps
Although often overlooked by those studying and working within the confines of mainstream philanthropy and higher education giving, 63 percent of Latino households give to charity.
September 6, 2012
Opinion
Q&A with Paul Tough: Missed Opportunity in Nation’s Education Agenda
In a new book, education reformer Paul Tough asks whether the metrics used in college admissions are too narrow.
September 6, 2012
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Opinion
Open to Interpretation – Who’s Man Enough in 2012?
If you follow politics you know that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are more than their fiscal ideas or foreign policies; a significant part of political identity is gender-based, professors Marc Edward Shaw and Elwood Watson write.
September 4, 2012
Students
Commentary: Supporting the Military Veteran-Student
How higher education can respond to the exclusive needs of military students
September 3, 2012
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Opinion
Native American Philanthropy: Giving in Humble Ways
This post is co-authored with Nelson Bowman III, Executive Director of Development at Prairie View A&M University, and is based on research for our forthcoming book Engaging Diverse College Alumni: The Essential Guide to Fundraising (Routledge, 2013). Although we often hear about the challenges that Native Americans face in terms of poverty and reservation life, […]
August 29, 2012
Opinion
‘Personal Touch Initiative’ Should Enhance Student Success
Terms like customer service and satisfaction surveys were not always aligned with higher education. More than likely, you heard people use these terms in the business community. It is quite a familiar sight these days to see greeters standing at the entrances of department stores extending a welcome to you. Consumers receive almost on a […]
August 28, 2012
Opinion
Asian-Americans and Philanthropic Giving: Implications for Higher Education
This post is co-authored with Nelson Bowman III, the Executive Director of Development at Prairie View A&M University and is on based research for our forthcoming book Engaging Diverse College Alumni: The Essential Guide to Fundraising (Routledge, 2013). Asian-Americans are the second fastest growing minority population in the United States after Latinos.  Between 2000 and […]
August 20, 2012
Opinion
Making Progress amid Growing Enrollment Disparities at Selective Colleges
The percentage of Black students doubled during the Black Campus Movement to diversify higher education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since 1976, the Black enrollment has more than doubled once again, from 943,000 to 2,269,000 in 2008. The Black share of the overall enrollment in American higher education increased from about 5 percent […]
July 31, 2012
Opinion
Character Should Always Count in Awarding Athletic Scholarships
Athletics is an important part of college life. Millions of dollars are spent each year on providing student athletes with scholarships. Of course these scholarships dollars allow student athletes to attend school free or almost free. Coaches spend a great deal of time talking with and meeting with young men and women about coming to […]
July 30, 2012
Opinion
Commentary: Making Progress amid Growing Enrollment Disparities at Selective Colleges
We should be pleased with today’s bird’s eye view of the racial makeup of the national college student body, however, once we nosedive from our view, the disparities begin to surface in clear and present view, writes University of Albany historian Ibram H. Rogers.
July 25, 2012
Dr. Ibram H. Rogers
Opinion
FAMU’s Life or Death Decisions at 125 Years Old
After wading through the perilous waters that emerged in the aftermath of the tragic, senseless, and shocking death of drum major Robert Champion last November, I began to realize that we are living in one of the most important periods in the 125-year history of Florida A&M University. I started to envision this historic time […]
July 18, 2012
Opinion
Critical Thinking Is Absent Long Before Students Reach College
Over the past few years, there has been no shortage of op-ed articles, feature stories, conference panels and other forums discussing and, in many cases, decrying the deficient level of critical thinking that has supposedly evaded far too many among college students and graduates. Last year, academics Richard Arum and Josipa Roska in their co-authored […]
July 16, 2012
Opinion
Armored Vehicle on a College Campus?
Since the late 1960s, American higher education has been a policed state. One day in the near future, it may become a militarized state. The days of a single unarmed security guard everyone knew seem like ages ago. The greatest fixation from in loco parentis—tremendous, sympathetic care for each and every student—seems now to have […]
July 16, 2012
Opinion
Commentary: FAMU’s Life or Death Decisions at 125 Years Old
In the aftermath of the tragic death of drum major, Robert Champion last year, I began to realize that we are living in one of the most important periods in the 125-year history of Florida A&M University, University of Albany historian Ibram H. Rogers writes.
July 16, 2012
Dr. Ibram H. Rogers
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