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Sports
Lawsuits Seek to Compensate College Athletes
Ed O’Bannon was a star basketball player at UCLA. His lawsuit seeks a share of the money the NCAA earns from licensing former players’ images in commercials, DVDs, video games and elsewhere. (photo courtesy of UCLA)
September 20, 2010
Ed O’Bannon
Leadership & Policy
University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone
Fifty-five years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, John Brandon and brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be celebrated as pioneers.
September 20, 2010
Leroy Frasier, John Lewis Brandon, and Ralph Frasier (left to right),
Community Colleges
Lumina Foundation Says US Continues to Lag Globally in Producing College Graduates
The United States continues to fall behind other major nations around the world in producing highly credentialed college graduates, despite a marginal gain between 2007 and 2008, says a new report by the Lumina Foundation for Education.
September 20, 2010
Jamie Merisotis is president and chief executive officer of the Lumina Foundation for Education.
Students
College-educated Americans More Likely Experience Job Satisfaction, Lead Healthier Lives, Study Says
Delving into more than just the financial rewards, college graduates, in comparison with high school graduates, are less likely to smoke or be obese; vote and volunteer more; and have more job satisfaction, according to a newly released study by The College Board.
September 20, 2010
A College Board report has been released today titled Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society.
Students
Perspectives: A Little Bit of Knowledge (about BGLOs) is a Dangerous Thing
I am critical of Black Greek-letter organization undergrads but I believe there is also enough blame to go around. And Student Affairs and Greek Life personnel who advise BGLO members deserve their fair share of blame.
September 19, 2010
Gregory S. Parks
Students
Minority Leaders Oppose “Gainful Employment” Rules for For-profit Colleges
Some African-American and Hispanic leaders have taken a stand against proposed federal rules designed to curb student-loan defaults at for-profit colleges, arguing the strictures would reduce the educational options of minority students, who represent a large part of the enrollment at the schools.
September 19, 2010
An Everest College counselor advises a student on career options. Everest College is a system of for-profit colleges in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. (photo courtesy of Everest College)
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee Selects Purdue Administrator, Researcher as New President
Tuskegee University announced Friday the selection of Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, associate vice president for collaborative research and engagement at Purdue University, as its sixth president.
September 19, 2010
Gilbert Rochon
Opinion
New Rainbow of Islamic Knowledge and Religious Diversity: Zaytuna College
There are more than 500 colleges and universities in the United States that pledge an affiliation to the Christian churches. There are at least nine Buddhist colleges and universities, and three Jewish institutions of higher education. There is at least one Hindu institution, Hindu University of America in Orlando. Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., founded […]
September 16, 2010
Sports
Minority Coach Watch: Black Head Coaches Lead Three Teams in Top 25 Games This Week
This week, Kevin Sumlin steered the University of Houston into the Associated Press’ Top 25 rankings at No. 23. The third-year head coach has guided 2-0 Houston to lopsided victories against visiting Texas State and UTEP.
September 16, 2010
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Students
A Week Without Facebook? Pennsylvania College Tries it Out
A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week.
September 16, 2010
Dr. Sherrie Madia, a social media expert, spoke at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology this past Wednesday.
Faculty & Staff
Grooming the Next Generation of Accounting Faculty
An acute shortage of accounting faculty prompts launch of the Accounting Doctoral Scholars program aimed at helping seasoned tax and audit professionals earn Ph.D.s.
September 16, 2010
Dr. Jerry E. Trapnell is executive vice president and chief accreditation officer at the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Students
Foundation Highlights Practices for Getting Community College Students Into Selective Four-Year Schools
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has released “Partnerships that Promote Success: The Evaluation of the Community College Transfer Initiative,” a study of successful programs that have assisted talented lower‐income community college students in transferring to selective institutions.
September 16, 2010
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Opinion
HBCUs and Real World Employment
President Obama declared this week Historically Black College and University Week. Along with this declaration came a three-day conference focused on Black colleges—their contributions to society as well as the challenges they face in the coming decades. The program was quite different than in years past, with a focus on graduation and retention, online degree […]
September 15, 2010
Students
Parents of Prairie View Hazing Victim Settle Suit Against Fraternity
The parents of the Prairie View A&M University student who died in a hazing incident last year have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s fraternity, court records show.
September 15, 2010
Marco McMillian is the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity executive director.
African-American
Coppin State Opens Campus-based Neighborhood Computer Center
Coppin State University is set to debut formally today its new efforts to help low-income residents in nearby neighborhoods modernize their digital communications skills with the opening of a neighborhood broadband technology skills training center.
September 15, 2010
Coppin State President Reginald Avery
African-American
National Science Board Report Calls for Equity, Excellence and Opportunity in STEM
The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
September 15, 2010
Dr. Cora Marrett is acting director of the National Science Foundation and a member of the National Science Board.
Opinion
Act Da Fool: Strange Fruit Meet High Fashion
I have just finished watching, for the umpteenth time, the short film Act Da Fool, by critically acclaimed independent filmmaker Harmony Korine. With each viewing, I am more flabbergasted.   Set in a Nashville housing project, as well as a school for the blind—and “a school for kleptomaniacs”—the film is apparently the centerpiece for Proenza Schouler’s […]
September 14, 2010
Opinion
Promoting Racial and Cultural Awareness in the Classroom: Creating a Plan for Evaluation
“The specter of color is apparent even when it goes unmentioned, and it is all too often the unseen force that influences public policy as well as private relationships. There is nothing more remarkable than the ingenuity that the various demarcations of the color line reflect. If only the same creative energy could be used […]
September 14, 2010
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