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University of Virginia Requires Annual Disclosures of Student Arrests
The University of Virginia is requiring students to disclose whether they’ve been arrested or convicted of crimes each fall semester when they log in for the first time to the computer system that handles e-mail and course materials.
August 10, 2010
African-American
Perspective: First Lady’s Spain Trip Stirs Up Reflections of America’s Past
It seemed surprising that two days before first lady Michelle Obama’s recent visit to Spain, the U.S. State Department removed a warning about Spain’s alleged treatment of African-American travelers.
August 10, 2010
Sports
Cost of Knight Academic Center for Athletes Raises Concern
The University of Oregon academic center for athletes that opened in January, paid for entirely by benefactor Phil Knight, cost about twice as much per square foot as Portland’s priciest condo buildings, according to documents released to The Oregonian.
August 9, 2010
Students
Highlighting the Plight of Unjustly Imprisoned Journalists
New book on Ling sisters’ account of 140-day detention in North Korea calls attention to the growing number of journalists being held captive.
August 9, 2010
African-American
Education Trust Reports Divulge Minority College-graduation Rate Gaps
The Education Trust, a Washington-based education advocacy organization, released two reports Monday highlighting institutions that have highest and lowest comparative college success rates for African-Americans and Latinos.
August 9, 2010
African-American
Obama Urges College Completion Agenda As Economic Imperative
Avoiding pronouncements on affirmative action and immigration reform, President Barack Obama touts college completion agenda during visit to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday.
August 9, 2010
Home
More Choices Alter College Textbook Landscape
A new federal law requires publishers to provide textbook price information to professors and calls on colleges to identify course textbooks during registration, giving students more time to shop around.
August 8, 2010
Native Americans
Tribal Officials: Indian Education Needs Money
American Indian students could achieve more academically if their crumbling schools are fixed, more money is provided for teachers and supplies and tribes gain more control of what happens in classrooms, tribal officials said Friday at a congressional hearing.
August 8, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Indiana Launches Western Governors University Program
Partnership between Western Governors University and Indiana likely to improve college-degree attainment among the state’s minority students.
August 8, 2010
Students
Opinion: Recruiting Students of Color to Predominantly White Campuses
Despite the gains in minority student enrollment over the last four decades—Black and Hispanic students accounted for 13.1 and 11.4 percent, respectively, of enrollment at degree-granting institutions in 2007, up from 9.4 and 3.5 percent in 1976—students of color remain underrepresented at traditionally White institutions.
August 5, 2010
Community Colleges
Report: Adult Learning Programs Needed in U.S. South as Bridge to Post-K-12 Education
The Southern Region Educational Board is urging that Southern states strengthen their adult learning programs to help boost the educational opportunities for the working adult population.
August 5, 2010
African-American
Effort Aims To Bridge Swimming Gap for Minorities
A study conducted by the University of Memphis and released in May showed 69 percent of Black children and 58 percent of Hispanic kids either had low or no swimming ability.
August 5, 2010
Opinion
Community College is Just the Beginning
As an active participant in the national dialogue on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) higher education, I often attend meetings alongside college and university STEM faculty, all of whom have a vested interest in diversifying the STEM pipeline at their respective institutions and across the country. Although often enlightened on diversity theory and practice, […]
August 4, 2010
Students
Senate Hearing: Videos of For-Profit School Staffers Expose Fraudulent Acts
Secretly-recorded videos of shady practices within the for-profit college sector got aired Wednesday during an occasionally testy Senate committee hearing that probed the extent of those practices among the proprietary schools.
August 4, 2010
African-American
Poll: Identity, Blending in Important to Hispanics
An Associated Press-Univision poll shows that a significant percentage of Hispanics believe it is important to hold on to their unique identity even as they work to blend into American society.
August 4, 2010
Students
Veteran Journalist Pinkston Sees Bright Prospects for the News Profession
Encouraged by educators to become a reporter, CBS newsman Randall Pinkston says he’s optimistic about the news profession because of the promising student journalists he meets while guest lecturing at journalism schools.
August 4, 2010
African-American
Texas Urged To Hire More Minority Teachers
Texas schools need to hire more Black and Hispanic teachers, especially as the enrollment of minority students continues to rise, experts say.
August 3, 2010
Students
Federal Appeals Court Hears University of Texas Admissions Case
Two White students who were denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to rule that the school impermissibly uses race in its undergraduate admissions decisions.
August 3, 2010
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