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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Graduate Diversity Officers Play Key Role in Helping STEM Departments Diversify

I’m honored to have contributed to a piece recently published in the 2012 summer edition of The Review of Higher Education. The article focuses on efforts to diversify graduate education at research-intensive universities across the country. While underrepresented minority students comprise about a quarter (and growing) of the nation’s undergraduate population, just 11 percent of […]

July 9, 2012

Commentary: Graduate Diversity Officers Play Key Role in Helping STEM Departments Diversify

Though there is much effort invested in and discussion about undergraduate recruitment and admissions, there is a lesser known group of individuals working to build a diverse student body of entering graduate students: Graduate Diversity Officers.

July 4, 2012

Lorelle Espinosa

Punitive Standardized Testing Produces Unstandardized Schools

Parents, teachers and administrators are screaming “enough is enough.” The revolt against standardized testing is growing as the funds federal and state officials allocate to develop new tests continues to grow. “More teaching, less testing.” “One, two, three, four…Kids are not a test score.” Hundreds of parents and children chanted these statements outside the New […]

July 1, 2012

Scholar Says Minority Health Has Much to Gain with Affordable Care Act

Health care expert and think tank scholar Brian D. Smedley contends that the Affordable Care Act means that people of color can expect to benefit from measures that seek reduction in health disparities.

July 1, 2012

Commentary: Mobile Journalism: A Model for the Future

An award-winning educator writes about taking the journalism classroom to the streets of Johannesburg to provide hope and opportunity to young people.

June 28, 2012

Allissa Richardson

Empowering Students of Color: The Role of Minority Serving Institutions

Editor’s Note: This post is co-authored with Thai-Huy Nguyen, a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Blacks receive roughly 6.1 percent of the degrees in math and statistics, 6.7 percent in physical sciences, and 5.2 percent in engineering. Likewise, Latinos receive roughly 6.8 percent of the degrees in computer science, 5.8 percent in […]

June 25, 2012

Manhattan Institute Segregation Report Flawed, Some Say

A recent report by the Manhattan Institute about the extent to which segregation may have declined in the last century has triggered a heated debate, with many scholars and social justice advocates rejecting its findings.

June 21, 2012

Roderick Harrison

Commentary: Punitive Standardized Testing Produces Unstandardized Schools

Students in vastly different schools are taking the same tests, which is and has always been incredibly unfair, writes University of Albany historian Ibram Rogers.

June 13, 2012

Dr. Ibram H. Rogers

Gorilla Taunts of a Professor as Jim Crow Flaps at UCLA

A few years ago, medical residents at UCLA performed mocking roasts of their professors during an annual event. It is probably a common yearly send-off at UCLA, as it is at most medical schools and academic hospitals to lighten the mood in the pressure-packed environment. It is one thing to mock in a playful fashion, […]

May 31, 2012

Black Studies – The Never-Ending (Beautiful) Struggle

Much has been written about a former (recently fired) Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) blogger’s racist, dismissive, and uninformed rant against the discipline of Black Studies—particularly a group of Northwestern University graduate students—but very little scrutiny has been afforded the article that inspired the toxic torrent in the first place. That would be “Black Studies: […]

May 14, 2012