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Education Experts, Hispanic Elected Officials Discuss Strengthening Educational Pipeline

Strengthening the educational pipeline from prekindergarten through college is critical to the academic success of Hispanic students, educational researchers told policymakers gathered Wednesday at a forum convened by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund (NALEO)

September 24, 2008

Falwell College Wants Students to Vote Locally

The chancellor of Liberty University has an ambitious plan to get the 10,500 students at the evangelical Christian college registered to vote in Virginia, a swing state that could be crucial to victory in the presidential election.

September 24, 2008

New Football Program Presents Golden Opportunity for Lincoln University

With the start of the new academic year, Lincoln University has made some big changes to its campus. The nation’s oldest Black college resurrected its football team and created a marching band. The institution and its president Ivory V. Nelson hope that theses changes will attract more students to the suburban Pennsylvania campus. Previously, many […]

September 23, 2008

Georgia Program Wins Honor

The Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Program (HOLA) at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) has been selected as a semifinalist for a national award from Excelencia in Education, the university announced.

September 23, 2008

Hispanic MBAs Name Award Winners

Florida International University and Loida Rosario of DePaul University were among recipients of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs’s 2008 Brillante Awards for Excellence announced on September 19.

September 23, 2008

At-Risk Youth Group Urges Federal Support for Tested Interventions

Officials with a national advocacy organization for at-risk teenage students urged Washington, D.C., policymakers on Tuesday to enact federally supported initiatives that would provide youths at risk for dropping out of high school educational and social support to help them earn diplomas, postsecondary education opportunities and job training.

September 23, 2008

NCCU Degrees Granted Through Ga. Megachurch Deemed Valid

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS) has confirmed the validity of 25 North Carolina Central University degrees awarded to students who completed their academic coursework at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia.

September 23, 2008

Arkansas Sanctions Upheld; Track Titles in Doubt

The NCAA upheld sanctions against Arkansas’ track and field program, although the school still hopes to keep two national titles in question.

September 23, 2008

Admission Counseling Commission Endorses Optional SAT/ACT Admissions Requirements

A commission convened by the National Association for College Admission Counseling is calling for colleges and universities to drop the use of the SAT or ACT as a requirement for admission, stating that a “one-size fits all” approach for the use of standardized test does not reflect the realities facing the nation’s many and varied colleges and universities.

September 22, 2008

Poll: Views Still Differ Sharply by Race

Since the nation’s birth, Americans have discussed race and avoided it, organized neighborhoods and political movements around it, and used it to divide and hurt people even as relations have improved dramatically since the days of slavery, Reconstruction and legal segregation.

September 22, 2008

The NCLBification of Higher Education

One of the most significant yet subtle ways that the No Child Left Behind Act has affected higher education is by shaping the requirements for students intending to become teachers. In this way, although NCLB is a federal act directed at K-12 education, its effects have traveled up the educational ladder into higher education. Here […]

September 21, 2008

For Ole Miss, Presidential Debate Marks School’s Progress

Two generations ago, bullets flew and tear gas canisters exploded among the magnolias as segregationists fought federal authorities over the court-ordered admission of the first Black student to the University of Mississippi.

September 21, 2008

Suit Filed Against New Mexico State University

Four current and former New Mexico State University faculty members and a graduate student have filed a lawsuit in federal court charging university administrators with racial discrimination and unfair professional retaliation.

September 21, 2008

University of Florida Law School Celebrates 50 Years of Integration

Virgil Hawkins never reached the promised land in his attempt to gain admission to the University of Florida law school, but he was honored Wednesday as a trailblazer in the fight to open the school’s doors to minority students.

September 21, 2008

Rethinking Student Aid Group Suggests Overhauling Financial Aid

A group of policy experts charged with the arduous task of rethinking strategies for student financial aid recommends an overhaul of the financial aid process, beginning with simplifying the financial aid application by tying it to a family’s tax return in addition to creating a better college savings program for low-income families.

September 18, 2008

Congress Sends Student Loan Extension to Bush

Congress has approved through the 2010 school year a program that will allow students who rely on loans to continue their educations regardless of current difficulties in the private credit market.

September 18, 2008

Affirmative Action is Still Relevant and Needed

A few weeks ago, the anti-affirmative action ballot measure in Arizona that was supported by Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Black conservative opportunist and hypocrite Ward Connerly failed to garner enough support to be placed on the ballot. Earlier this year, a similar referendum in Oklahoma faced a similar fate. I must admit […]

September 17, 2008

Stay The Course Or Change Directions Is The Question

As Election Day approaches, we must decide whether characteristics will trump the issues of the day. This conundrum makes for a slippery slope for some of us. Those of us that are voting age have participated in some local, state and national elections where we did not always vote for the “conventional” or for the […]

September 17, 2008