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A Case for Selling Academic Research

The commercialization of academic research does not threaten a university’s principle mission of teaching and research, according to executives of the first spin-off technology transfer company wholly owned by the University of Oxford in England

May 28, 2007

Community Colleges

Meeting Labor Demands by Improving Education Access For Home-grown Talent

Although California’s modern economy has relied heavily on highly skilled out-of-state U.S.-born and immigrant talent, a newly released study by the Public Policy Institute of California says that meeting state work force needs over the next two decades will require sharp increases in the production of college-educated native Californians.

May 28, 2007

Traveling Classroom Uses Landmark Civil Rights Sites for Teaching

JACKSON, Miss. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated just one day before Sharon Matlock turned 10. Her birthday brought gifts and her mother’s tears, and ever since she has tried to understand the hatred and violence of those times. Now 49 and a college staff member, Matlock recently joined professors and students on a five-state trip to civil rights landmarks to find answers.

May 28, 2007

Texas Top 10 Admissions Law To Stay

AUSTIN The Texas House on Sunday rejected a bill that would have limited the number of students automatically admitted to public universities under the state’s top 10 percent law.

May 27, 2007

Best & Brightest: Facing Life in Prison, Dropout Turned to Education

When Denise Maupin talks about her troubled past, she uses adjectives like “suicidal” and “destructive” to describe life as a drug addict and convict. When she talks about life now, she can use the word “perseverance” to describe her turnaround into a college graduate who founded a support group for former gang members.

May 27, 2007

New Facts, Still Mind-boggling

BALTIMORE CITY, Md. After first lying to police that they were shot in a gas station robbery, and then claiming to invite a gun wound in an attempt to avoid a fraternity initiation, one shooting victim has confessed the true reason why he asked a Morgan State University student to shoot him — to avoid National Guard duty in Iraq.

May 24, 2007

Advocacy Group Offers Model Policy on Mental Health Problems

Most college campuses have counseling services to deal with students who may have a potentially serious mental health problem, but not all institutions have a well-defined policy that benefits students while addressing the school’s concerns about liability.

May 24, 2007

Just the Stats: The Demographics of Universities

Twenty-seven percent of undergraduates at Title IV schools are racial minorities; foreign student enrollment in graduate school (12 percent) is significantly higher than in undergraduate (3 percent); and Blacks generally have the lowest six-year graduation rates of any racial group and have a disproportionately high enrollment in for-profit colleges.

May 24, 2007

Post Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans HBCUs Invest in Better Communication Systems, Training

Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters demolished much of New Orleans, officials at the city’s hard hit historically Black universities are busy updating their disaster plans in the face of another hurricane season.

May 23, 2007

Native Americans

Bringing the Global Market to Native Lands

At the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a group of college entrepreneurs are preparing to enter the global market by launching an American Indian news service — and without ever having to step foot off the reservation.

May 23, 2007

Appreciation: Yolanda King

A public memorial will be held today for Yolanda King, the firstborn child of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in Atlanta, across the street from the sanctuary where her father preached. Here, Smith College theater professor Len Berkman recounts how King, known since childhood as Yoki, transformed one of his classes.

May 23, 2007

Community Colleges

Southwest Idaho Voters to Decide Proposed Community College

BOISE, Idaho Voters in Idaho’s two most populated counties will decide Tuesday whether to build a new community college in the Treasure Valley.

May 22, 2007

Prosecutors File No Charges in Case of Calif. College Alleged Gang Rape

SAN JOSE, Calif. Santa Clara County prosecutors announced Monday they have declined to file charges in the case of the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl by De Anza College baseball players at a party in March.

May 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Clark Atlanta Faculty, Students Call for President Broadnax’s Ouster

ATLANTA A group of Clark Atlanta University faculty, students and alums said Tuesday the school’s financial and morale problems have reached a crisis point and it’s time for university president Walter Broadnax to step down or be fired.

May 21, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Lawyer: Duke Cheating Case Hit Asian Students Hardest

DURHAM, N.C. Asian students involved in a cheating scandal at the Duke University business school were punished more severely than others, their attorney says.

May 21, 2007

Bowie State Students: N-Word Not Welcome Here

Residents of historically Black Bowie State University’s all-male residence halls are accustomed to watching the news on their communal flat screen television every night between 5:00 and 8:00 pm. They often discuss each other’s entrepreneurial plans. What they aren’t used to is hearing each other use the “n-word.”

May 21, 2007

How UCLA’s Black Enrollment Rebounded

Community leaders and Black alumni stepped up to help boost Black enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles this year. The number of Black students who said they plan to enroll as freshmen in the fall doubled from 103 to 203, bringing the percentage of Black UCLA freshmen to 4.5 percent, up from 2.2 percent a year ago.

May 21, 2007

Perspectives: On Immigration and Black Unemployment, Congressional Black Caucus Remains Silent

Missing from the debate on Capitol Hill about immigration reform is the Congressional Black Caucus, which should be standing up against policies that enable immigrants to compete with Blacks and other low-wage, low-skill workers for housing, health care, education, employment opportunities and goods and services.

May 21, 2007