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Report Encourages Incentivizing States to Share in Costs of Higher Education
U.S. Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell said the report speaks to the need to tackle what he characterized as “systematic disinvestment by states throughout the Great Recession in higher education.”
October 27, 2014
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Diverse Down The Road
Diverse Founder Frank Matthews and Senior Writer Jamal Eric Watson are participating in the International Conference on Urban Education at Montego Bay, Jamaica from November 6-9.
October 26, 2014
HBCUs
West Virginia State Gets $40K Grant for Agriculture Research
West Virginia State University is getting a grant to help fund agricultural research projects.
October 26, 2014
Students
East Tennessee State University Pondering Impact of Sex Week
Students and administrators on the Johnson City campus of East Tennessee State University are wondering about the impact three days of sex education known as Sex Week may have on the campus.
October 26, 2014
Students
Wainstein Report on UNC Should Make All Schools Rethink Athletics
It’s time to drop the pretense and separate sports from the schools.
October 26, 2014
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College Applicants Get Chance to Visually Make Their Case
Goucher College is overlooking grades and standardized testing for a video application.
October 26, 2014
Sports
Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud
Failures in Oversight Worsened University of North Carolina Academic Fraud.
October 26, 2014
Students
What is Really Going On: Black Graduate Students in Higher Ed
The conversations became very serious when the lone professor asked two of the Black graduate students about their research and experiences as Black graduate students.
October 26, 2014
Students
Conference Brings Black Doctoral Candidates Together to Focus on Path to Success
Participants in the 2nd Annual Black Doctoral Network Conference in Philadelphia were encouraged to network and forge new relationships with other scholars engaged in research across the country.
October 26, 2014
Students
Mexico: Mayor Linked to Deadly Attack on College Students
Officials said Wednesday that a drug gang implicated in the disappearance of 43 students in a southern city essentially ran the town, paying the mayor hundreds of thousands of dollars a month out of its profits from making opium paste to fuel the U.S. heroin market.
October 23, 2014
Students
Panel Addresses Sexual Violence at the University of Oregon
A task force studying ways to prevent sexual violence at the University of Oregon has come up with a list of nearly two dozen recommendations, including the creation of a single office dedicated to addressing the problem.
October 23, 2014
African-American
Voting is a Privilege and an Opportunity for Civic Engagement
Early voting started recently and will continue until November 4. It is our opportunity to vote for the candidates of our choice.
October 23, 2014
African-American
HBCUs Not Rushing to Embrace LGBTQA Issues of Staff and Students
Experts say HBCUs are not faring well overall when it comes to ensuring that members of the LGBTQA community are afforded the same rights as others.
October 23, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Ohio State University: Fired Band Director Was Dishonest
The university’s fired band director witnessed more sexually charged incidents than previously reported, school attorneys said in response to his lawsuit.
October 23, 2014
Students
Inspiring Students to Write Their Way to Self-Discovery
This writers’ project offers students a literary platform to arrive at an understanding of their personal history and to reveal the powerful meanings surrounding their sense of cultural identity.
October 23, 2014
Students
‘Dear White People’ a Satire About Race Relations on Campus
Dear White People addresses a multitude of campus climate issues at Winchester University, a fictitious Ivy League school troubled by racial tension.
October 23, 2014
HBCUs
Focus: Health Sciences
The feature stories in this issue include pieces on the shortage of primary care physicians, a Johns Hopkins initiative introducing STEM to Baltimore’s public school students and this year’s HBCU Week Conference.
October 23, 2014
Faculty & Staff
University Defends Response to Threat to Speaker
Facing faculty concerns about guns on the campus of Utah State University, the school’s president is responding to accusations that the institution acted irresponsibly after a threat against feminist speaker Anita Sarkeesian.
October 22, 2014
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