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Students
Helping College Students Stay Safe While Dating
Increasingly, college administrators are prioritizing dating violence prevention and intervention services.
February 28, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Can Universities Keep the Minority Students They Woo?
Black and Latino students are, on average, far less likely to graduate in six years than their White and Asian peers.
February 23, 2011
Kashi Johnson
Students
Educators Seek Out More Minorities to Study Abroad
Educators want more minority students to study abroad because the experience is seen as crucial to student development, yet minority participation badly lags their overall presence on college campuses.
February 22, 2011
Students
U.S. Banker to Match Immigrants’ College Savings
The group promises that if families save $1,500 by the time a child graduates from high school, it will match that amount.
February 21, 2011
Bob Hildreth
Latinx
Helping Nurture STEM Talent Inspires Harvard Administrator
Native American scholar learned a great deal from his mother, whom he describes as an ethnobotanist who was able to identify and collect plants to use as food and medicine for her children and the family’s animals.
February 21, 2011
Lee Bitsóí
Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
John Kline
Students
House Republicans Slash $61B in Continuing Resolution
An amendment barring the Department of Education’s proposed gainful employment regulation passed by a vote of 289-136.
February 19, 2011
Latinx
Lower Maryland College Tuition Sought for Undocumented Immigrant Children
To be eligible, students must attend two years of high school in Maryland, and their parents pay one year of income taxes before the student graduates from a Maryland high school.
February 17, 2011
Kris Kobach
Latinx
Study: California State Northridge Students Hit Hard by Recession
The report, “Squeezed From All Sides,” blames California’s recession and education cuts for pushing students to the breaking point, with some reporting they must forgo college.
February 15, 2011
Patricia Gandara
African-American
Ohio Universities Defend Affirmative Action Strategies in Their Admissions
Two universities accused in a new report of giving minority students an unfair edge in the admissions process defended their practices as being legitimate strategies to expand access and enhance diversity on campus.
February 15, 2011
Shirley Wilcher
Latinx
Yale, Peruvian University Sign Deal on Incan Artifacts
Yale University announced that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago.
February 13, 2011
Machu Picchu
Students
New Federal Data Show Rising Student Loan Default Rates
The federal government’s new system to calculate student loan default rates – while highlighting the problems of many for-profit colleges – also may pose risks for some minority-serving institutions that are seeing their rates increase as well.
February 13, 2011
Case study
Students
Despite AP Access Limited Among Minorities, Exam-Taking on the Rise
The number of high school seniors taking Advanced Placement exams is steadily rising, but a significant gap persists with lack of exam-taking among African-American students, according to a report.
February 9, 2011
AP students
Latinx
Target of Virginia Immigrant Bills Includes Undocumented Students
The Virginia House of Delegates has advanced a slate of anti-illegal immigrant bills, including one that would require Virginia’s public colleges to bar undocumented students from enrolling.
February 8, 2011
Dr. William Perez
Students
Civil Rights Groups Express Support for Gainful Employment Rules
The Obama administration’s efforts to step up oversight of for-profit colleges got a key endorsement when a group of civil rights leaders announced support for the proposed rules.
February 7, 2011
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Leadership & Policy
Maryland Lawsuit Targets Undocumented Students’ Local Tuition Break
A Maryland community college is facing a lawsuit over its policy to provide low “in-county” tuition rates to any recent graduate of a local high school regardless of immigration status.
February 3, 2011
Tom Fitton
Students
A Look Inside a Successful Charter School Culture
At Pritzker College Prep charter high school in Chicago, academics are rigorous, teachers have special training and kids are in school more hours than their peers in traditional pubic schools.
February 2, 2011
Pritzker College Prep students
African-American
Sociologist Investigates Minority Exclusion in Medical Research
As a medical sociologist, Dr. Shawna V. Hudson works like a detective seeking clues to how the health care system functions for people of different ethnic groups.
February 2, 2011
Shawna Hudson
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