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New Website to Serve as Repository for College Success Research
In an effort to provide timely information on college access and success, the Institute for Higher Education Policy launched a new website, which is backed by the Lumina Foundation, Tuesday that serves a repository for some of the latest research in the field.
July 31, 2012
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NACUBO Meeting Speaker: Business Officers Should Rethink College Finances
Washington State University president Elson Floyd urges college business officers to rethink current funding models to meet the new fiscal challenges unfolding at public colleges and universities.
July 31, 2012
Opinion
Character Should Always Count in Awarding Athletic Scholarships
Athletics is an important part of college life. Millions of dollars are spent each year on providing student athletes with scholarships. Of course these scholarships dollars allow student athletes to attend school free or almost free. Coaches spend a great deal of time talking with and meeting with young men and women about coming to […]
July 30, 2012
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Senate Democratic Report Blasts For-profit Colleges
For-profit colleges put revenues above education, and charge students high tuition and loan rates that could leave them in debt for years, a Senate Democratic report said Monday.
July 30, 2012
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Survey Explores the Role of Youth and New Media in the Political Process
Nearly 3,000 youth were interviewed to better understand young people’s engagement with digital media and the changing nature of participation in the political process.
July 30, 2012
African-American
Echoes of Faith: Church Roots Run Deep Among HBCUs
Religious leaders, local churches, missionaries, and denominations were descending across the South in the 19th century, believing that it was worth it to spend their time and money and do the right thing when they decided to establish seminaries, classrooms, colleges, and even medical schools for Blacks.
July 30, 2012
Sports
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Winner Jacque Vaughn Hired as Orlando Magic Head Coach
Jacque Vaughn, a former NBA player and the 1995 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year, will be one of the youngest head coaches in the NBA this coming season.
July 29, 2012
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Q&A: Michigan State Scholar Examines Muslim View of Salvation
Dr. Mohammad Hassan Khalil, the author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question, spoke to Diverse about his recently published book.
July 29, 2012
African-American
Soledad O’Brien’s Education Foundation Celebrates Second Annual Gala
Two years after launching, the Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond Foundation is well on its way to becoming a key change agent in higher education.
July 29, 2012
International
For College Student Volunteers, AIDS Conference Opens Door to Awareness, Activism
At the International AIDS Conference, college student volunteers said they chose to attend the event to join the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
July 28, 2012
International
Blacks Continue To Lose Ground as Talk of Turning the AIDS Tide Wages
Recent data released at the International AIDS Conference this week show that the most vulnerable people at the epicenter of the disease—African-Americans—are steadily losing ground in the war against AIDS.
July 27, 2012
African-American
White House: New African-American Initiative to Cover All Education
President Obama’s new initiative on African-American education will focus on the full spectrum of pre-K to higher education learning and will “complement” the federal initiative on historically Black schools, the White House says.
July 26, 2012
African-American
White House: New African-American Initiative to Cover All Education
President Obama’s new initiative on African-American education will focus on the full spectrum of pre-K to higher education learning and will “complement” the federal initiative on historically Black schools, the White House says.
July 26, 2012
African-American
North Carolina Central Chancellor Charlie Nelms to Retire
The rapidly growing help wanted list for college leaders expanded again Thursday with the surprise announcement from North Carolina Central University that Dr. Charlie Nelms, its chancellor for the past five years, is retiring in August.
July 26, 2012
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Fisk Completes Deal to Sell Stake in Prized Stieglitz Art and Photo Collection
Fisk University has quietly consummated its controversial plan to sell half of its ownership in the prestigious Stieglitz Collection of art and photographs for $30 million cash and other considerations to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
July 26, 2012
African-American
Obama Creating African-American Education Office
President Barack Obama is creating a new office to bolster education of African-American students.
July 26, 2012
African-American
Alabama State Professor, Civil Rights Pioneer Dies at 96
Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott, has died at age 96.
July 25, 2012
Opinion
Commentary: Making Progress amid Growing Enrollment Disparities at Selective Colleges
We should be pleased with today’s bird’s eye view of the racial makeup of the national college student body, however, once we nosedive from our view, the disparities begin to surface in clear and present view, writes University of Albany historian Ibram H. Rogers.
July 25, 2012
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