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Just the Stats: High Dropout Rates Persist for Latinos, Other Minorities

By 2050, the United States Census Bureau projects that minorities will represent 50 percent of the population. In 1993-94, five million Hispanics were enrolled in public schools. Now in 2007-2008, that number has almost doubled.

December 8, 2007

Hispanic Briefs: Hispanics Edge Back Towards Immigrants; In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants; Oscar de la Renta Honored by CUNY Institute; LA Politica Becomes Candidato USA.

A summary of some the latest headlines relating to Hispanic Americans, higher education, and politics.

December 8, 2007

Just the Stats: What Public HBCU Coaches Are Paid, Part I

Diverse recently conducted a survey in order to compare the compensation and salary packages of head coaches at public historically Black colleges and universities.

December 6, 2007

Out of Line

Northeastern State University officials relent after telling American Indian graduates to remove feathers and other items at graduation. In time for the Dec. 15 commencement, there are new guidelines allowing Natives to wear tribal insignia.

December 6, 2007

Oregon Panel Explores In-state Tuition For Undocumented Immigrants As Diversity Tool

PORTLAND Ore. A panel of students, faculty and administrators is proposing charging in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students at Oregon’s public universities.

December 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

U. of Colorado Settles Sex-Assault Suit

DENVER The University of Colorado has agreed to pay two women $2.85 million to settle a lawsuit alleging they were sexually assaulted by football players and recruits, school officials said Wednesday. The allegations had sparked a football recruiting scandal at the school, prompted broad university reforms and led to a shake-up of its top leaders. […]

December 5, 2007

Obama: Expand National Service Programs

Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday advocated a major expansion of the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and other national service programs, declaring, “This will be a cause of my presidency.” The Illinois senator said the government is not keeping pace with those who want to help. “We will create new opportunities for all of us to serve,” […]

December 5, 2007

School Bans Students Without Mumps Shots

The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students Thursday that they’re being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps. Campus officials provided student lists to professors and were trying to reach about 50 on-campus residents to make sure they have another place to go. The 426 […]

December 5, 2007

Historically Black Oakwood Set to Become University Next Year

HUNTSVILLE Ala. Oakwood College will become Oakwood University on Jan. 1, a name change that will make it Alabama’s 18th university. More than 125 delegates attending a constituency meeting at the school approved the name change Sunday. School President Delbert Baker said the change reflects “new horizons” at Oakwood. The historically Black college was founded […]

December 5, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Second Annual Black, Brown & College Bound Conference Held In Florida

TAMPA, Fla. — Community college educators from as far as Washington state and the Bahamas descended on Tampa, Fla., last week for the second annual Black, Brown & College Bound Conference. Hosted by Hillsborough Community College and nine other Florida two-year institutions, BBCB featured numerous tracks dedicated to examining and removing barriers to college for young Black and Hispanic males.

December 5, 2007

Community Colleges

N.C. Community Colleges President Defends Undocumented Immigrant Policy

RALEIGH, N.C. — The president of the state community college system won’t back down from a new policy that allows Undocumented Immigrants to enroll on all campuses, saying that doing otherwise runs counter to a nearly 50-year-old tradition of open admissions.

December 5, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Part of New Mass. Prison Chief’s Inmate Rehabilitation Approach

Massachusetts can lock the door behind the inmates housed in its prisons, but Harold Clarke says that more than 90 percent of the time the state can’t throw away the key.

December 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Experts To Study Campus Climate, Hiring Practices at UC Riverside

In an effort to address campus diversity complaints from minority faculty, students and alumni, the University of California, Riverside has invited three outside scholars to review faculty hiring policies and investigate the treatment of minority students within the Graduate School of Education.

December 4, 2007

Perspectives: Cosby Offers More Needed Tough Love In New Book

Many of Bill Cosby’s critics forget he was not born with a silver spoon. Bill Cosby, like many of us, has fallen a time or two but he always managed to get back up. This, I think, is what Bill Cosby in his new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, is imploring us to do; that is, to get back in the race called life.

December 4, 2007

Stanford ‘Invests’ In Faculty Diversity

Stanford University has developed a $4.5 million program to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars on the academic profession to 36 doctoral candidates over the next four years as part of an effort to prepare graduate students from diverse backgrounds for a career in academia.

December 3, 2007

UT at San Antonio Student Group Protests Cancellation of Black Studies Course

SAN ANTONIO — The University of Texas at San Antonio’s cancellation of an upcoming course within the African American Studies Program has prompted the resignation of a professor and drawn criticism from some students.

December 3, 2007

Perspectives: UCLA Fires Dorrell Despite Academic Success, Winning Record and 100% Bowl Record

What does a Black coach have to do to keep his job? Many observers and critics of coaching equity are probably asking that question in light of the reasons the University of California, Los Angeles athletic director has given for the firing of head football coach Karl Dorrell.

December 3, 2007

‘Jena Six’ Teen Pleads Guilty to Juvenile Battery

JENA Louisiana A Black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a White classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a battery charge. Mychal Bell, 17, originally was charged as an adult with attempted murder in the beating of Justin Barker in December 2006. That charge […]

December 3, 2007