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African-American

Commemorating the Frank Hale Legacy

Ohio State’s Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center is a rarity in academia, as was its namesake, who helped mentor dozens of African-American Ph.D. students at the Columbus, Ohio-based flagship university.

July 25, 2012

NCAA’s Emmert Hopes Penn State Penalties Send Message

In hitting Penn State’s football program with unprecedented sanctions, NCAA chief Mark Emmert said he hopes the action serves notice that a win-at-all-costs mentality in major college football won’t be tolerated.

July 24, 2012

African-American

Accrediting Body Sanctions Virginia Union University over Finances

The Southeastern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges has put Virginia Union University on warning because of failure to comply with three core financial standards.

July 24, 2012

Community Colleges

Feds Outline Model to Simplify Financial Aid Award Letters

Colleges and universities are receiving a final version of the “financial aid shopping sheet” designed by the Obama administration to provide students with easy-to-understand information about their financial aid awards.

July 24, 2012

Senator: DREAM Act’s Passage by Congress Would Complete President’s Action on ‘Undocumented’ Youth

U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin said Tuesday that the DREAM Act will become law if advocates follow the example set by the Civil Rights Movement.

July 24, 2012

With Penn State’s Loss, Grambling’s Eddie Robinson Regains Coaching Title

Grambling University learned Monday that its legendary football coach, the late Eddie G. Robinson, had regained his rank as the winningest coach in college football history.

July 23, 2012

Ohio Higher Education Panel: Ban All Tobacco on Campuses

Ohio higher education officials voted unanimously Monday to urge the state’s public campuses to ban all sales and use of tobacco products, including smoking outdoors.

July 23, 2012

Community Colleges

Expert: Stratification Undermines American Higher Education’s Capacity for Enabling Social Mobility

Economist Anthony Carnevale told a group of college prep program administrators Monday that social stratification within the world of higher education threatens to undermine American Dream.

July 23, 2012

Anthony Carnevale

Penn State Fined $60 Million, Wins Vacated from ’98-11

Penn State football was all but leveled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno’s victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose pedophile assistant coach spent uncounted years molesting children.

July 22, 2012

Sadness, Worry Come with Removal of Paterno Statue

Penn State President Rod Erickson said he decided to have the statue removed and put into storage because it “has become a source of division and an obstacle to healing”.

July 22, 2012

How South Korea Outpaces the U.S. in Engineering Degrees

One in four South Korean college students majors in engineering, compared to one in 20 in the U.S.

July 22, 2012

Q&A with Georgetown University’s Rabbi Rachel Gartner

Rabbi Rachel Gartner, director of Jewish chaplaincy at Georgetown University, took a winding path to becoming a spiritual leader at a Jesuit institution of higher education.

July 22, 2012

Virginia State University Hosts College Prep Program for Latino Students

In addition to providing college preparation advice, the Hispanic College Institute offers high school students the inspiration than they can enroll and succeed in college.

July 22, 2012

Washburn University Plans Historic $40 Million Law School

Washburn University in Topeka plans to build a $40 million law school, which would represent the largest single-building construction and fundraising project in the university’s history.

July 19, 2012

City of Grambling, La., Wants Paterno Coaching Record Vacated

An attorney for the city of Grambling, La., has filed a request to the NCAA asking the governing body to vacate some of Joe Paterno’s record 409 Division I victories.

July 19, 2012

Report to Congress: Some Private Lenders Engaged in ‘Risky’ Practices

Student loan borrowers have more than $150 billion in outstanding debt through private student loans, a sector of the financial aid market beset by “risky practices,” Obama administration officials said Thursday.

July 19, 2012

Richard Cordray

Forum: Scholar Offers View of 2012 Latino Presidential Vote Outlook

At a Washington forum on Thursday, Stanford political scientist Gary M. Segura described the recent surge in support for Obama among Latino voters as being a case of choosing between the “frying pan and the fire.”

July 19, 2012

FAMU’s Life or Death Decisions at 125 Years Old

After wading through the perilous waters that emerged in the aftermath of the tragic, senseless, and shocking death of drum major Robert Champion last November, I began to realize that we are living in one of the most important periods in the 125-year history of Florida A&M University. I started to envision this historic time […]

July 18, 2012