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Section: Demographics > Latinx
African-American
Lumina Reports Uptick in College Completion
College completion numbers show incremental improvement from last year, according to the annual Lumina Foundation report, “A Stronger Nation.”
April 11, 2016
Faculty & Staff
In Case You Missed It…
Professor Tackles Turbulent History of Latinos and the LAPD Duke Students Persist in Demands for Asian American Studies Major Is it Time for a New NCAA? Final Four of Urban Design Gives Students Real-life Experience
April 7, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Historian Cobb Joining Faculty at Columbia University
Dr. William Jelani Cobb, a prolific Black historian and journalist, is joining the faculty of Columbia University??s Graduate School of Journalism.
April 7, 2016
Latinx
Puerto Rico Debt Crisis More Than Just an Economic Issue
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis is a humanitarian crisis impacting the most vulnerable groups on the island, human rights activists and lawyers said at a briefing on Capitol Hill recently.
April 5, 2016
African-American
Professor Tackles Turbulent History of Latinos and the LAPD
Scholars present research in the growing area of Chicana/o and Latina/o geography, specifically comparative racialization at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
April 5, 2016
Students
Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
April 5, 2016
African-American
Only Half of U.S. Students Taking ‘College-Ready’ Courses
Only about half of all U.S. high school students actually take the sequence of courses they need to be considered ready for college and careers, according to a new report being released today by the Education Trust.
April 4, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Politicians Sometimes Say the Strangest Things
Primaries and caucuses are events that are happening almost every week now
March 31, 2016
Students
More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits
A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.
March 30, 2016
Students
UVA Student Group Supporting Undocumented Students Finds Its Footing
A new student group at the University of Virginia—DREAMers on Grounds—is working to create a support network for students who are either undocumented or who have received DACA benefits.
March 30, 2016
Students
UMKC Takes Issue with Education Trust Report Conclusion
According to UMKC, the university is concerned primarily with providing full access to all members of the community, and that Education Trust’s numbers do not tell the full story.
March 23, 2016
Faculty & Staff
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
March 22, 2016
Students
The Benefits of Campus Activism
Student unrest and campus activism historically has been responsible in many ways for bringing about justifiable and positive changes in academe.
March 21, 2016
Leadership & Policy
A Positive thing about Donald Trump’s Presidential Run
While people point to Donald Trump tapping the anger of the American electorate, you always know that, in the political physics, Newton’s third law still applies, that for “every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
March 21, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?
If you like your politics raucous and raunchy, Donald Trump has been your candidate this year.
March 14, 2016
African-American
11 Higher Ed Institutions Uniting to Boost Minority Students’ Grad Rates
Eleven institutions of higher education are joining an Education Trust-led initiative meant to improve graduation rates for underrepresented minority students.
March 10, 2016
African-American
Recruitment and Retention Key in Diversifying Faculty at Public Schools
A recent panel at Howard University explored the demographic mismatch between public school teachers and the students they serve.
March 8, 2016
Asian American Pacific Islander
Fight for the Diversity Vote Intensifies as Week’s Primaries Focus on Michigan and Mississippi
Late last week, Def Jam entrepreneur Russell Simmons announced he was supporting Hillary Clinton after reaching out to Bernie Sanders.
March 7, 2016
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