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Commentary: Futures Linked – Higher Education and Pell Grants

Unfortunately, college access in America is just as much a product of family wealth as it is student performance, writes University of Albany history professor Ibram Rogers.

August 27, 2012

CCNY Minority Scholars Program Nurtures Ph.D. Aspirations

The Minority Scholars program is on track to hit its ultimate goal of producing Ph.D.s; out of 36 Black and Latino graduates, 19 entered doctoral programs, and four have persisted.

August 27, 2012

Sheldon Weinbaum

Morris Brown College Files for Bankruptcy

Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a last-ditch effort to prevent the 131-year-old school from being foreclosed on and sold at auction.

August 26, 2012

African-American

Former MLK Speechwriter, Counsel is First Diversity Scholar at University of San Francisco

With the 49th anniversary of the March on Washington coinciding with the start of the academic year, Clarence Jones becomes the first diversity scholar at the University of San Francisco.

August 26, 2012

Automatic Education Cuts Loom on the Federal Horizon

Education advocates are bracing for more upheaval at the prospect of across-the-board federal budget cuts that would chop more than $4 billion from higher education and K-12 programs starting in January.

August 26, 2012

Morris Brown Faces Foreclosure

Auction of assets for one of the nation’s oldest Historically Black colleges set for next month.

August 23, 2012

Commentary: Open to Interpretation – Who’s Man Enough in 2012?

If you follow politics you know that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are more than their fiscal ideas or foreign policies; a significant part of political identity is gender-based, professors Marc Edward Shaw and Elwood Watson write.

August 23, 2012

Education Poll Finds Consensus among Americans on K-12 Learning Standards, Closing Achievement Gap

Charter schools, free public education for the children of undocumented immigrants and work readiness among college graduates are among the top education issues on which the nation is split.

August 23, 2012

While Fall U.S. College Enrollment Has Mixed Picture, Tuition Hikes and Greater Admissions Selectivity Not Having Adverse Effect

Fall 2012 enrollment patterns at four-year institutions across the nation are producing a mixed picture of results, as a sampling of schools questioned this week found a variety of factors underlying enrollment experiences to date.

August 23, 2012

Community Colleges

Obama Criticizes Romney over College Assistance

While speaking to young voters, President Barack Obama accused rival Mitt Romney of being oblivious to student and family burdens of paying for college.

August 22, 2012

Commentary: Closing Racial Divide Creates New Opportunities for Colleges

Authors of new book exploring contemporary American college student life write that strategies to build bridges among diverse campus groups should be initiated or strengthened by colleges and universities.

August 22, 2012

Report: China, India Positioned to Compete for Global Economy’s ‘Best Jobs’

Skilled workers in India and China are predicted to be increasingly better positioned to compete for the best jobs of the future because of the strategic investments those nations are making in education.

August 22, 2012

Report: China, India Positioned to Compete for Global Economy’s ‘Best Jobs’

Skilled workers in India and China are predicted to be increasingly better positioned to compete for the best jobs of the future because of the strategic investments those nations are making in education.

August 21, 2012

Report: China, India Positioned to Compete for Global Economy’s ‘Best Jobs’

Skilled workers in India and China are predicted to be increasingly better positioned to compete for the best jobs of the future because of the strategic investments those nations are making in education.

August 21, 2012

Community Colleges

ACT Report Finds Most in 2012 High School Class Not College Ready

As high school graduates from the Class of 2012 prepare to begin their first year of college, a new report released Wednesday by ACT says the vast majority of those students are not academically ready for college.

August 21, 2012

African-American

Interim President Larry Robinson to ‘Inject’ FAMU with ‘Degree of Stability’

FAMU interim president Larry Robinson has declared himself ready for the leadership challenge of motivating staff, faculty and students to turn the university’s fortunes around.

August 21, 2012

Asian-Americans and Philanthropic Giving: Implications for Higher Education

This post is co-authored with Nelson Bowman III, the Executive Director of Development at Prairie View A&M University and is on based research for our forthcoming book Engaging Diverse College Alumni: The Essential Guide to Fundraising (Routledge, 2013). Asian-Americans are the second fastest growing minority population in the United States after Latinos. Between 2000 and […]

August 20, 2012

Community Colleges

Analysis: New Studies Weigh College Value and Cost

Two new studies offer emphatic answers to much-discussed questions about higher education: Yes, a college degree is worth it, but yes, it’s the middle-class that’s getting particularly squeezed with student debt in the pursuit of one.

August 20, 2012

Jamie Merisotis