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Faculty & Staff
Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Diverse identifies five threats facing HBCUs and five opportunities that could define their futures.
August 19, 2009
Latinx
More Black and Hispanic Students Taking the ACT Exam, College Readiness Levels Remain Flat
While scores and college readiness levels remained relatively flat from 2008, the numbers of Black and Hispanic high school graduates in 2009 who took the ACT college entrance exam remained the same or increased for a fourth consecutive year nationally, according to the ACT ‘Measuring College and Career Readiness: The Class of 2009’ report.
August 18, 2009
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Latinx
Partners for Digital Equality, The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and The National Hispanic University Announce Alliance
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August 17, 2009
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Latinx
SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN
While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfield War” and “Born in East L.A.”
August 5, 2009
Latinx
WASHINGTON UPDATE – Power Players for HSIs and Tribal Colleges
In Washington, D.C., many individuals aspire to become power players. But the true test is the ability to influence policy and legislation.
August 5, 2009
Latinx
Mexican students to be recognized Friday
The California-Mexico Project (CMP), headed by CSULB Chicano/Latino Studies professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, and Mexico’s National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES) arranged the study abroad program. Dr. Ana Uribe of Mexico’s University of Colima directed the program and its research component.  According to the Daily 49er.com, among them are seven undergraduates from three […]
August 5, 2009
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Latinx
Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen
While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”
August 5, 2009
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Latinx
Power Players for HSIs and Tribal Colleges
These are some of the movers and shakers who make things happen in Washington, D.C.
August 5, 2009
Latinx
Report: Texas Still Lags in Hispanics in Higher Ed
Hispanic enrollment in Texas colleges and universities would need to almost double in the next six years to meet the state’s goals by 2015, according to a new state report.
August 3, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Texas colleges’ math-science push falling short, board says
Texas colleges and universities aren’t coming close to meeting goals to increase graduates from math and science programs and enroll more Hispanic students, according to a report released Thursday.  That comes from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s annual “Closing the Gaps by 2015” report presented in Austin, The Dallas Morning News reported.  © Copyright […]
July 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Battle It Out
Highlights from the 2008 Honda Battle of the Bands, held in Atlanta. Music from North Carolina Central University’s marching band, Sound Machine, directed by Jorim E. Reid, is featured in the slide show.
July 28, 2009
Latinx
Diverse Calendar
Sept. 15-17 NATIONAL COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE Hilton San Francisco Web: www.collegeaccess.org Sept. 22-26 National Black MBA Association 31st Annual Conference and Exposition “Connect” Ernest Morial Convention Center New Orleans, La. Web: www.nbmbaa.org Sept. 30-Oct. 3 NATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISING ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE “Academic Advising: Deep in the Heart of Student Success” San Antonio Convention […]
July 22, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Perspectives: Thanks for Asking
We applaud White House and Education Department officials for visiting Hispanic-majority communities to better ascertain the challenges and key issues for Latino/a students. If the goodwill created by this initiative is matched by decisive action, the current administration can achieve educational improvements for Hispanic Americans.
July 21, 2009
Latinx
Minority-serving Institutions Battle for Budget Consideration
Colleges disagree over what constitutes an agricultural program and therefore who qualifies for limited federal agricultural resources.
June 24, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Setting a New Standard
Despite the gains minorities have made in student enrollment and higher education leadership, the needle needs to move further and faster in the next 25 years to narrow the widening educational achievement equity gap.
June 10, 2009
Students
25 Legal and Legislative Milestones
This timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education over the 25 years that Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, formerly Black Issues In Higher Education, has been in print.
June 10, 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 Highlights Growing Recognition of Nontraditional Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Treating nontraditional students as an asset rather than as a liability has marked stellar leadership among presidents at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), according to “Leading in Changing America: Presidential Perspectives from Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” a report released this week by the advocacy group Excelencia in Education.
June 4, 2009
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