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Faculty & Staff
PROMOTING AGRICULTURAL CAREERS TO MINORITIES
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) is on a mission to promote careers in agricultural economics for minority college students. For the past two years the ERS has conducted a distance learning program that brings experts
December 23, 2009
Disabilties
WASHINGTON UPDATE
Federal Official Pushes for More Diversity in Government In an exclusive interview with Diverse, hiring leader talks about federal government plans to boost diversity hiring, especially among disabled individuals.
December 23, 2009
MSIs
Obama’s Higher Education Agenda May Lead to Expanded Federal Role
Scholars, academic administrators and higher education policy officials have interpreted the administration’s pronouncements and initiatives as markers of a significant shift in federal higher education policy.
December 20, 2009
President Barack Obama at Macomb Community College
African-American
Documentarian Develops Curricula to Dispel HIV/AIDS Myths in Black Community
When Claudia Pryor’s cousin was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s, she was the only family member willing to visit him. As a gay Black man, his family ostracized him.
December 2, 2009
Claudia Pryor
Leadership & Policy
Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement
U.S. Education Department under secretary is driving the Obama administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.
December 1, 2009
U.S. Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter
African-American
HBCUs Step Up to the HIV Challenge
Impact of HIV on Blacks compels historically Black colleges and universities to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.
November 30, 2009
Howard U. AIDS Ribbon
HBCUs
ACCELERATING AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT
Dr. Martha Kanter, the U. S. Education under secretary, is driving the administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.
November 25, 2009
Students
Study Abroad Participation Up, Except Among Minority Students
Despite targeted outreach and the availability of financial aid, minority-student study abroad participation declined for several groups, according to the new Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education.
November 15, 2009
MSIs
MSIs To Get New Help in Going ‘Green’
A new grant to the United Negro College Fund should help a cross-section of minority-serving institutions – including Hispanic-serving universities and tribal colleges – promote environmentally friendly building practices in the years ahead.
November 12, 2009
Faculty & Staff
LASTWORD: Tending to Diversity at an HBCU
Diversity acquires a new meaning and perspective at historically Black colleges and universities, where African- Americans are the majority and others are in the minority.
November 11, 2009
Asian American Pacific Islander
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Obama Restores Asian American Initiative
Two years after the Bush administration let its authority lapse, President Barack Obama has reinstated the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
November 11, 2009
Asian American Pacific Islander
Obama Restores Asian American Initiative, Gives Ed. Dept. a Lead Role
Two years after the Bush administration let its authority lapse, President Barack Obama has reinstated the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders with the U.S. Education Department in a major leadership role.
October 27, 2009
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
MSIs
OPENCOURSEWARE: AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS
Today, higher education in the U.S. is facing signifi- cant challenges, most notably those resulting from the economic downturn.
October 14, 2009
MSIs
Watchdog Agency: MSI Grants Need Greater Oversight
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says the U.S. Education Department must conduct greater grant administration oversight of minority-serving institutions and other developing colleges to ensure proper management and prevent improper grantee spending.
October 12, 2009
U.S. Government Accountability Office seal
Students
SPECTRUM: FROM DESPAIR TO DISCOVERY
Dr. Raul Cuero was one of 10 children born in abject poverty in Buenaventura, Colombia, to parents who could not read and write. Lacking books, he indulged his curiosity by investigating the creatures around him.
September 30, 2009
MSIs
More Diversity Sought Among U.S. Participants in Study Abroad Programs
International education advocates say study abroad programs need to step up their efforts to recruit and retain minority students.
September 29, 2009
Study Abroad Programs Seek More Diversity
Latinx
WASHINGTON UPDATE: Community Colleges To Benefit from New Higher Ed Bill
Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.
September 16, 2009
Latinx
Community Colleges To Benefi t from New Higher Ed Bill
Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.
September 16, 2009
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