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Bonds to Faculty Help Keep Latinos in STEM Majors

Latino students who major in math, sciences, and technology have a better academic performance if they also have strong relationships with the faculty, according to a recent study from the University of Southern California.

September 9, 2008

Woman’s Mission: Keep Hispanic Youths in School

Maria Gonzalez spends Friday evenings in a church basement, surrounded by 30 teens chattering in a mix of English and Spanish, because she has assigned herself a mission: to improve graduation rates and college attendance of Torrington and Winsted’s Hispanic youth.

September 9, 2008

UA Interpreter-Training Center Earns Grant to Grow Program

An interpreter-training program at the University of Arizona center has won a highly selective U.S. Department of Education grant that will allow it to develop an online curriculum for schools around the nation.

September 9, 2008

UC Santa Barbara to Honor Poet and Children’s Advocate

The University of California at Santa Barbara has announced that Pat Mora, a poet and author, will receive the 2008 Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature at the Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival on Saturday, September 27.

September 9, 2008

Castro’s Daughter to Speak at SIU-Carbondale

Alina Fernandez, daughter of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, is scheduled to speak Sept. 29 at Southern Illinois University’s student center as part of Latino Heritage Month. (National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 – Oct. 15.)

September 9, 2008

Nebraska Calls Summit on Latino Education

The Nebraska Department of Education and the state Mexican-American Commission have announced the fifth annual Hispanic/Latino Education Summit to be held Oct 6.

September 9, 2008

NAFEO Report Highlights HBCU Role in Graduating Black Students, Attracting Diversity

A report released by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Tuesday credited historically Black colleges and universities with a disproportionately large share of Black educational gains over the past two decades.

September 9, 2008

Justice Thomas Says Constitution Forbids Racial Preference

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.

September 9, 2008

Community Colleges

Student GOP Leader Resigns Over Obama Remark

The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Sen. Barack Obama on the Internet.

September 9, 2008

Perspectives: Obama’s Election to Undercut Affirmative Action? Not a Chance

The title for this article was selected in response to this writer’s initial and continued uneasiness in relationship to the question posed by the title of a Diverse Online article of July 2, 2008, “Might Obama’s Success Undercut Affirmative Action?”

September 9, 2008

Secretary of State Rice Calls for Investment in HBCUs

With historically Black colleges and universities graduating a significant percentage of Black students who pursue doctoral degrees in medicine, mathematics, science and engineering, we must continue to invest resources into these institutions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.

September 8, 2008

Study: Ph.D. Completion Rates Vary By Gender, Race

International students, men and Whites complete their Ph.D. requirements faster than domestic, women and minority students, according to a Council of Graduate Schools study being released today.

September 8, 2008

N.C. A&T Becomes First Black Institution Named NSF Engineering Research Center

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University will serve as an international leader of engineering research thanks to a prestigious grant awarded by the National Science Foundation.

September 8, 2008

Where are Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders in Higher Education?

How does your university or college classify Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students and faculty? Most continue to misclassify Pacific peoples within the Asian category, despite the fact that over a decade ago, the federal government issued a policy directive to create the racial category of “Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.” The implications […]

September 7, 2008

Shots Fired on Pa. University Campus; Nobody Hurt

Officials at Indiana University of Pennsylvania say someone fired gunshots into the air on the school’s campus early Monday but no one was hurt.

September 7, 2008

TSU Plans Layoffs to Offset Possible $6M Deficit

Tennessee State University officials say they may have to lay off employees, combine classes and drop students from school rolls, largely because of a weak economy and fewer out-of-state students.

September 7, 2008

Harvard Officer on Leave Denies Profiling

A Harvard University police officer involved in an incident that sparked a review of possible racial profiling by campus police says she has done nothing wrong.

September 7, 2008

No Athletic Dept at Vandy, But Much Success

As president of Vanderbilt University and four other prominent schools before that, Gordon Gee perceived an unhappy trend: Student-athletes were drifting away from the core of university life. They lived, ate and studied in a jock bubble.

September 7, 2008