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Commentary: Reducing College Costs Starts From Within
While  college costs have outpaced the inflation rate, one way to curb college costs is to find better and more cost-efficient ways to do things, a financial aid consultant advises.
August 18, 2011
Opinion
Fulbright Lessons From Around the World
Lessons learned from one of the most diverse groups I’ve ever been around.
August 15, 2011
Sports
Students File Lawsuit Over North Dakota School’s Nickname
The complaint alleges that a new law requiring the school to keep the nickname violates the state constitution and reverses a court-ordered settlement between UND and the NCAA that retired the logo.
August 14, 2011
Latinx
Foreign Students Fear Indiana Immigration Law Impact
Indiana’s new immigration law is raising concerns among international students who worry they won’t be eligible for tuition waivers or fellowships that help pay for their U.S. educations.
August 14, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Poet Alleges Discrimination at Cleveland State University
An outspoken tenured professor of English at Cleveland State University whose discrimination lawsuit against the Ohio school is scheduled for a November trial has been served a termination letter only weeks before classes start.
August 14, 2011
International
Diverse in India: Chess Skills Elevate Student to Elite College
In the first story of a series on India and higher education, Diverse correspondent Jamaal Abdul-Alim profiles a young chessmaster whose talents have opened the door to enrollment at one of the nation’s most prestigious colleges.
August 14, 2011
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August 11, 2011
Community Colleges
For-profit College Targets Attorney General Conway in Election
Leaders at Sullivan University, which has its main campus in Louisville, asked employees during an Aug. 3 training session to contribute $25 each to attorney general candidate Todd P’Pool, according to The Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader.
August 11, 2011
Students
Tennessean Editorial Page Editor Dwight Lewis Retiring After 40 Years in Journalism
Veteran journalist and educator interviewed well-known people from boxing great Muhammad Ali to convicted assassin James Earl Ray to President Obama.
August 11, 2011
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Georgetown University Study Shows Higher Education Does Little to Close Inequalities of Race and Gender
The report, The College Payoff, found that college graduates earn 84 percent more than high school graduates, earning an average of $2.3 million over a lifetime, but minorities would have to earn a master’s degree to earn as much as White non-Hispanics with a bachelor’s degree.
August 11, 2011
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University of Cincinnati Seeks State Probe of Teen Death
The University of Cincinnati said Monday that state authorities have been asked to investigate the death of a teenager after he was struck by a university police officer’s stun gun outside a dormitory.
August 10, 2011
Community Colleges
Mississippi Community College Degree Program Allows Academic Credit Earned from Military Training, Experience
A Mississippi community college is offering a new associate degree program that it says will enable veteran and active-duty members of the armed services to combine their military training with academic credits.
August 10, 2011
Students
San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People
The former reporter for The Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle was a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of San Francisco.
August 10, 2011
Latinx
Report: California Latinos Falling Behind in College Completion
A study released this week suggests that Hispanics, the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group, may be falling behind educationally in California, the nation’s most populous state.
August 10, 2011
Health
Minnesota Program for Immigrant Doctors Loses Funding
State lawmakers eliminated funding for the $150,000 program during the last-minute negotiations.
August 9, 2011
Community Colleges
U.S. Justice Dept. Accuses For-profit College of Breaking Law
The Obama administration and four states are accusing a private, for-profit college of illegally paying recruiters to enroll students in an $11 billion fraud, the latest action in a long-running examination of the industry’s recruitment techniques.
August 9, 2011
African-American
Fisk University Loses More Top Officials
Three key members of the small historically Black institution with strong liberal arts and sciences program in Nashville, Tenn., have resigned.
August 9, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Shaw University’s First Female President Quits Just Days After Tornado-damaged School Reopens to Students
The South’s oldest historically Black college, which suffered damage to 27 buildings when a tornado touched down in April, will be seeking a new leader and new donors.
August 9, 2011
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