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African-American
HBCU Leaders Must Acclimate Themselves with Corporate Practices to Remain Relevant
Washington â In order to ensure the future vitality of HBCUs, leaders of the institutions must position their faculty and students inside the corporate world to learn needs of business and how to speak business language.
December 13, 2012
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Educators Work To Resuscitate Arts Education After No Child Left Behind
If you ask Dr. Robert F. Sabol, professor of visual and performing arts at Purdue University, art education has suffered some serious setbacks since No Child Left Behindâthe landmark federal education law that put a greater emphasis on high-stakes testing.
December 13, 2012
Latinx
Federal Cuts Could âDevastateâ Education, Analysts Say
With the clock ticking on the nationâs âfiscal cliffâ crisis, education advocates are expressing mounting concern about how an automatic, across-the-board budget cut would decimate student financial aid and other higher education programs beginning January 1.
December 13, 2012
Sports
U. Iowa Adds Optional LGBT Question to Application
The University of Iowa has become the nationâs first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its application, a move hailed Wednesday by advocates hoping to improve the college experience for gays and lesbians.
December 12, 2012
Community Colleges
Accreditation Warning Removed at Grambling State
Grambling State Universityâs accreditation warning has been lifted, one month after the state legislative auditorâs annual financial report for the school found no significant problems.
December 12, 2012
Students
Cooper Protests for Free Tuition and a âBetter Futureâ
âWe live in a world where massive student debt and the rising cost of higher education remain unchecked, where students are treated as customers and faculty as contractors. Cooper Unionâs mission of free education affords quality and excellence and offers an alternative for a better future of higher education.â
December 12, 2012
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Actress Robin Givens shares her gift with Miles College students.
Last semester, Robin Givens lent her star power to a theater class at Miles College.
December 12, 2012
Sports
Footballâs Changes Illustrated at IAF
The realignments that have recently unfolded in college football were clearly and somewhat painfully illustrated by the conference commissionersâ panel at last weekâs Intercollegiate Athletics Forum (IAF), presented by SportsBusiness Daily/Global/Journal.
December 12, 2012
Students
Leaders Call for Reform in Remedial Education
Citing lackluster completion rates among students who place into remedial education courses, a group of higher education reformers on Wednesday called for an overhaul in the way that remedial education is delivered.
December 12, 2012
Students
Cooper Protests for Free Tuition and a âBetter Futureâ
âWe live in a world where massive student debt and the rising cost of higher education remain unchecked, where students are treated as customers and faculty as contractors. Cooper Unionâs mission of free education affords quality and excellence and offers an alternative for a better future of higher education.â
December 11, 2012
Leadership & Policy
Scandals Threaten FAMUâs Accreditation
A series of scandals in the last year, including the hazing death of a drum major, is now threatening to cost Florida A&M University its academic reputation.
December 11, 2012
Community Colleges
Ga. College Consolidation Plans Moving Forward
An accreditation agency approved plans to allow the State Board of Regents to merge eight colleges into four, dropping the number of colleges in the stateâs university system from 35 to 31.
December 11, 2012
Home
Researchers Seek Funding for Big Questions
In order to bring about scientific breakthroughs that are yet undreamed, government must fund research that seeks to answer broad questions and not just narrowly focused projects where most of the work has already been done.
December 11, 2012
African-American
Spike Lee Gives Back to the Next Generation of Filmmakers
With more than a quarter of a century of filmmaking under his belt, Spike Lee has begun working with students to provide opportunities for them to reach their dreams.
December 11, 2012
Students
Students Outraged by Morgan Stateâs Decision to Release President Wilson
Morgan State Universityâs Board of Regents voted last week not to renew President David Wilsonâs contract.
December 11, 2012
HBCUs
Indiana University Student Group Urges Campus-Wide Strike
Indiana University students concerned about reductions in state funding for higher education and IUâs management of programs are calling for an all-campus strike in April in protest.
December 10, 2012
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University of Vermont President Wants to Make Admissions Tougher
The new president of the University of Vermont wants to reduce the number of undergraduate students on the Burlington campus and make the school harder to get into for out-of-state applicants, as part of a plan to enhance the quality and affordability of the school.
December 10, 2012
HBCUs
Making It: How HBCU Education Helped Shape Will Packer
Noted filmmaker says attending an HBCU set the foundation for him to be successful in his career.
December 10, 2012
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