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NY Police Department Infiltration of Colleges Raises Privacy Fears
Investigators have been infiltrating Muslim student groups at Brooklyn College and other schools in the city, monitoring their Internet activity and placing undercover agents in their ranks, police documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
October 11, 2011
Asian American Pacific Islander
Report Provides Close Look at Diversity Among Asian American, Pacific Islander Students
College and university leaders should pay greater attention to the demographics of the growing number of their Asian-American and Pacific Islander students, a national commission urges.
October 11, 2011
Disabilties
Engineering Instructor and Activist Seeks, Inspires Wheelchair Innovation
As the founder of the San Francisco State University-based Whirlwind Wheelchair International, Ralf Hotchkiss focuses on producing and distributing durable yet inexpensive chairs for people with significant disabilities in countries such as Rwanda, Indonesia and Haiti.
October 11, 2011
Opinion
The Stressful Lives of College Students
On August 12, a co-authored article discussing the emotional health and well-being among Americans of all generations from teenagers to post-65-year-olds written by Magali Rheault and Kyley McGeeney, revealed a wide disparity of emotional satisfaction and well-being among various age groups. The study revealed that older Americans, those 60 and above, demonstrated significantly better emotional […]
October 10, 2011
Students
Texas University Breaking Ties With Community College
University of Texas at Brownsville to part ways with Texas Southmost College, ending unusual 20-year partnership.
October 10, 2011
Health
Lipscomb University Trying To Draw More Into Nursing Field
Lipscomb University is now offering an undergraduate nursing program on its campus and plans a new $8.5 million nursing building to draw more people into a field that continues to have shortages.
October 10, 2011
Students
‘New Orleans in the Hamptons’ Raises College Scholarship Funds
Foundation fundraiser hosted by Soledad O’Brien and husband Brad Raymond brought movers and shakers together to lend a hand to college students.
October 10, 2011
STEM
The Important Role of Legal Guidance in Increasing STEM Diversity
Last month, a group of college and university attorneys convened for two full days in Boston to learn about and discuss the legal parameters for seeking diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at their home institutions. They also were joined by STEM faculty, chief diversity officers, directors of diversity offices and policy-focused individuals […]
October 9, 2011
Home
Justice Breyer Honors Federal Judge Responsible for Helping Desegregate Virginia Schools
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke at a ceremony dedicating the law school’s moot courtroom in memory of the late U.S. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr., whose orders to desegregate Virginia’s public schools in the early 1970s were highly unpopular among some Whites.
October 9, 2011
Students
U.S.-Mexico Border Journalism Project Continues To Train Hispanics in Writing and Reporting
Borderzine is approaching its fifth anniversary with much to celebrate about its efforts to train aspiring Hispanic journalists using the populations on both sides of the nation’s 2,000-mile border with Mexico as its practical classroom.
October 9, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Houston Community College Trustee’s Ethics Reform Quest Bears Fruit
Mary Ann Perez has made an undeniable impact as a member of Houston Community College’s Board of Trustees.
October 9, 2011
Latinx
Rhode Island Governor Blasted over Undocumented Immigrant Tuition
Some 500 critics of Gov. Lincoln Chafee and a new policy allowing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at Rhode Island’s public colleges rallied Wednesday at the Statehouse, saying he is making the state a “sanctuary” for those who came to the United States illegally.
October 6, 2011
African-American
VCU Launches Project on Massive Resistance
Virginia Commonwealth University is launching an oral-history project that explores the Massive Resistance policy in Virginia during the 1950s and ‘60s.
October 6, 2011
Students
Pioneering Law Professor Derrick Bell Dies
Derrick Bell, the first Black professor at Harvard Law School and an uncompromising advocate for social justice, has died at age 80.
October 6, 2011
African-American
White House Black College Leader Urges Development of HBCU Online Programs
HBCUs and the online learning community need to become “more married” to reach more African-American students, said Dr. John S. Wilson, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
October 6, 2011
Home
Civil Rights Leader Fred Shuttlesworth Dies
The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and tenacity, has died at age 89.
October 5, 2011
Students
Boston Students Protest Spiraling Education Costs
About 200 Northeastern University students gathered on Wednesday to condemn what they called corporate control of government and the spiraling costs of their education.
October 5, 2011
Students
Keeping Day-to-Day Problems from Derailing College Students
Ugandan immigrant Job Asiimwe was on the verge of becoming one of the surprisingly large number of American college and university students who fail to earn two-year associate degrees within even three years, or four-year bachelor’s degrees within six.
October 5, 2011
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