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NCAA Taking Academic Reform Seriously

SOUTH BEND, Ind. University presidents will show how serious they are about academic reform when they decide whether the NCAA should continue to sanction schools that don’t meet classroom performance standards, NCAA President Myles Brand said Monday.

August 20, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown Taps New High-Profile Board of Corporate Leaders

Morris Brown has addressed several issues that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools cited when it yanked the college’s accreditation in 2002. But Morris Brown still has to show that it’s fiscally stable and that’s where many of the school’s new trustees, including executives who can attract corporate dollars, come in.

August 19, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Katrina Curriculum: A Lesson In Promoting Dialogues About Race and Class

A new curriculum is set to launch this upcoming school year at Columbia University, Teachers College, based on Spike Lee’s HBO documentary, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.”

August 19, 2007

Va. Tech Starts Semester With New Crisis

BLACKSBURG, Va. A Virginia Tech campus still reeling from the deaths of 32 people at the hands of a student gunman last spring began its fall semester Monday amid another tragedy: a carbon monoxide leak at an off-campus apartment left five roommates hospitalized, two in critical condition.

August 19, 2007

Affirmative Action Still In Play, Says Departing LDF Leader

Theodore M. Shaw, president-director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who is stepping down February 2008, talks to Diverse about his future plans and the ongoing fight to end inequality in education. He also has some choice words for anti-affirmative action advocate Ward Connerly.

August 18, 2007

HACU Seeks Answers From Presidential Candidates

In its first large-scale effort to draw attention from the highest level of government to Hispanic higher education issues, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) this summer asked all of the announced presidential candidates what they would do to provide greater higher education opportunities for Hispanics. Three Democratic candidates have responded so far.

August 18, 2007

Trial Of Texas Southern’s Former President To Begin

Jury selection is to begin today in the trial of Dr. Priscilla Slade, the former president of Texas Southern accused of misusing university funds.

August 18, 2007

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

Hispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study Indicates

Hispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.

August 15, 2007

Study: Overweight Kids Being Teased Out of an Education

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University have found that obesity is linked to high absenteeism rates in school-aged children.

August 15, 2007

Just the Stats: The Top Hispanic-serving Degree Producers

Each year, when we publish our list of Top 100 undergraduate degree producers, we get calls from Hispanic-serving institutions asking why they didn’t make the list. The answer may surprise you.

August 15, 2007

Kansas women’s team goes 3-1 on Australian exhibition trip

LAWRENCE Kan. The 400-foot climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge didn’t bother Danielle McCray all that much.

August 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

San Francisco Chronicle Editorial: “UC President Dynes bows out after controversial 4 years”

However hard he tried, Robert Dynes could never escape a pay-and-perk controversy that overshadowed his four years as president of the University of California.

August 15, 2007

Sallie Mae shareholders approve $25 billion private buyout deal

WASHINGTON Shareholders of SLM Corp., commonly known as Sallie Mae, on Wednesday approved a private-equity firm’s $25 billion buyout of the nation’s largest student lender.

August 15, 2007

WA class of 2007 does better than most other states on ACT

SEATTLE Despite all the hand wringing over student achievement, this year’s Washington high school graduates scored near the top of at least one national measure: the ACT college entrance exam.

August 15, 2007

UNM suspends fraternity activities in wake of charges

ALBUQUERQUE The University of New Mexico has suspended activities at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after campus police arrested one of its members on suspicion of sexual assault.

August 15, 2007

The Evolution of a Texas HBCU

Now majority Hispanic, the historically black st. philip’s college has positioned itself to serve an increasingly diverse San Antonio population.

August 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Community colleges face ‘double-whammy’ from budget cuts

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Community colleges are facing a “double-whammy” from impending spending cuts because their enrollment is soaring although their budgets are based on last year’s attendance, Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp acknowledged Wednesday.

August 14, 2007