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Honoring Cultural Traditions of Native Graduates
Native graduates receive their eagle feathers and plumes and proudly wear them on their graduation caps or tied in their hair.
June 9, 2015
African-American
Higher Ed Embracing Global Learning Surge
The demand for students to be prepared in today’s interconnected world has brought about a surge in global learning.
June 9, 2015
Policies
Americans Like Their Health Care, But Think The System Stinks
If America has the best health care system in the world, as some people like to say, then the setups in other countries must really be crummy. How come? Well, check out the disheartening results of a poll just out from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. Fifty-five percent […]
June 8, 2015
Opinion
‘San Andreas’ Movie Stereotypes Academics
Are all professors doomed to not kiss the girl and look like Paul Giamatti?
June 8, 2015
Students
Ohio State to Offer New Grants to 12,400 In-state Undergrads
COLUMBUS, Ohio ― Ohio State University says 12,400 students will qualify for new need-based grants next year as part of the school’s effort to make it more affordable to low- and middle-income families.
June 8, 2015
Students
Proposal to Drug Test Members of Greek Life Dropped
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― A proposal to require drug testing of fraternity and sorority members living in Greek housing at the University of Missouri has been dropped.
June 8, 2015
African-American
Report: Calif. Community Colleges Can Expect Surge in Black Enrollment
Only 31 percent of Black high school graduates in California took the sequence of coursework required to apply for a four-year public university in California in 2013.
June 8, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Lamb Named Interim Chancellor of City College of San Francisco
Art Tyler has stepped down as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco and Susan Lamb has been named as the interim successor.
June 8, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Exchange Program Expands Horizons of African-American Males
A ÂChinese exchange program provides African-American males at The Ohio State University with the opportunity to travel abroad.
June 8, 2015
Faculty & Staff
CLIFTON SANDERS
CLIFTON SANDERS has been appointed provost of academic affairs at Salt Lake Community College. Sanders was most recently interim provost of academic affairs at Salt Lake Community College. He earned a bachelor’s from Hamline University and a doctorate from The University of Utah.
June 5, 2015
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LAURA ROSENBURY
LAURA ROSENBURY has been named dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. Rosenbury is a professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and will begin her new job July 1. She earned a bachelor’s from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
June 5, 2015
Leadership & Policy
SHEILA C. BAIR
SHEILA C. BAIR has been named president of Washington College in Maryland. She will assume the position August 1. Bair was formerly chairperson of the FDIC. Bair earned a bachelor’s and a J.D. from the University of Kansas.
June 5, 2015
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Retired Professor Seeks Diversity in Green Movement
Dr. James Francisco Bonilla, who recently retired as a professor at Hamline University’s School of Business, has sought to bring more people of color into the environmental movement.
June 5, 2015
Opinion
Blaming Obama for the State of Race Relations Disingenuous at Best
Many Republican politicians, pundits and loyal GOP voters have targeted President Obama (and, in some cases, First Lady Michelle Obama) as the reason for the current state of race relations in our nation. As those in the land of rock-ribbed republicanism see it, our current commander in chief is the primary reason that the racial situation is less than desirable.
June 4, 2015
Sports
NCAA Hits UNC with 5 Violations in Wake of Academic Scandal
North Carolina’s long-running academic fraud scandal now includes five NCAA charges, including a lack of institutional control for poor oversight of an academic department popular with athletes and the counselors who advised them.
June 4, 2015
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Barnard Votes to Admit Transgender Women
NEW YORK ― Barnard College has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women’s college to issue a new policy acknowledging the fluidity and complexity of gender.
June 4, 2015
Students
Report: Student Loan Debt Stratified by Race, Class
New Demos report documents the patterns of student loan debt along racial and class lines with Black, Latino, and low-income students taking out higher loans than Whites and more likely to drop out with debt.
June 4, 2015
HBCUs
Grambling Names Willie Larkin President
Morgan State University Chief of Staff Dr. Willie Larkin has been named the next president of Grambling State University.
June 4, 2015
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