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Why young adults feel so entitled

Don Chance, a finance professor at Louisiana State University, says it dawned on him last spring. The semester was ending, and as usual, students were making a pilgrimage to his office, asking for the extra points needed to lift their grades to A’s.

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

Report: Oklahoma making community college transfers easier

OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma is making it easier for students to transfer from community colleges to universities, according to a report by the Southern Regional Education Board.

July 4, 2007

Race is the talk of small Louisiana town

JENA La. It’s not yet 8 a.m. but there’s a line of men waiting for a $10 haircut at Doughty’s Westside Barber Shop.

July 4, 2007

Could Harry Potter die? It would make mythological sense, say professors.

NEW YORK Brace yourselves, Harry Potter fans. No matter how desperate you are for Harry to live, some experts in classic literature and mythology say that finishing off the young wizard would make sense in a literary kind of way.

July 4, 2007

US police officer cleared by investigation into British historian’s arrest

ATLANTA A British historian says he is not satisfied with the results of an Atlanta Police Department investigation into his arrest after a jaywalking incident while he attended a conference in the city.

July 4, 2007

Zippy the Pinhead visits Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus

BALTIMORE Comic strip character Zippy the Pinhead, on his recent visit to Baltimore, had a few words for his elected representative.

July 4, 2007

OU says drinking cases down amid tough new alcohol policy

ATHENS Ohio Ohio University’s new get-tough policy on student drinking resulted in 32 percent fewer alcohol violations last school year, compared to the same period a year before, school officials said.

July 4, 2007

Universities help pay salaries of Richardson appointees

ALBUQUERQUE Two New Mexico universities are helping foot the bill of Gov. Bill Richardson appointees, and the arrangement has some concerned about potential conflicts of interest.

July 4, 2007

Hillary Clinton awarded honorary doctorate in Sweden

STOCKHOLM Sweden Hillary Rodham Clinton has been awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine at Sweden’s Goteborg University for her efforts to improve health care in the United States, officials said Thursday.

July 4, 2007

Studies question value of U.S. nutrition education programs

PANORAMA CITY Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.

July 4, 2007

Coach Rob gets encore season at Grambling – Grambling University football coach Eddie Robinson gets extension

The curtain finally closed on a week-long controversy surrounding Eddie Robinson, Grambling University’s legendary football coach.

July 4, 2007

Passing the test – free coaching classes for minority student-athletes to enter colleges

Subpar performances on standardized tests have dashed more than a few hopes and dreams of minority athletes who wanted to go to college. But now, some much needed help is available and student-athletes stand to benefit immensely.

July 4, 2007

Sharing the wealth by sharing the knowledge – call for cooperation between American universities and developing countries

CHICAGO African nations are looking to colleges and universities in the United States to help solve the continent’s problems of poverty, insecurity and a lack of government accountability, a member of the Ugandan Parliament said here recently.

July 4, 2007

California proposes high school academic standards to combat higher education remediation

California’s higher education officials have teamed up with the public schools to create the state’s first proposal for academic standards for high school students.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Black studies comes to power? – importance of a series of conferences to African American Studies

Four conferences important to African American Studies were held this fall. Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies hosted “The Future of African-American Studies Theory, Pedagogy, and Research;” New York University’s Africana Studies Program and Institute of Afro-American Affairs sponsored “Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies;” Temple University held the Eighth Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference with the theme “The Impact and Significance of the Works of Dr. Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga;” and the National Council for Black Studies held its annual meeting at Gallaudet University, this year titled “Celebrating Thirty Years of Black Studies/Africana Studies: A Legacy of Leadership, Learning and Change.”

July 4, 2007

Latino movement: a target for harassment? – student movement charges school administrations for deliberate harassment

Albuquerque–Members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA)–which translates to Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan– say their organization is being unfairly targeted by school administrations across the country. The harassment they are facing, says one student, “is like the 1960s, but with a 1990s twist.”

July 4, 2007

Community Colleges

The key to welfare reform is postsecondary education – Speaking of Education – importance of welfare reform in education

In early December, my travels took me to Gateway Technical Community College in New Haven, Connecticut. I’d expected it to be a campus trip like any other campus trip, where a speaker comes in, hangs out a bit, gives a talk, entertains questions, packs up her glad rags and goes home. This doesn’t mean that the lecture circuit is rote.

July 4, 2007

State Postsecondary Education Research

Provision aids Harris Fellowship recipients – Washington Update – Congress allows continuation of Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship

Congress officially has killed it, but the Patricia Roberts Harris Fellowship program lives on–at least temporarily. A little-known provision of Congress’s mammoth budget bill allows for continuation grants under the program, named for the African American cabinet officer under President Jimmy Carter. It supports under-represented minorities and women in graduate, professional and doctoral programs.

July 4, 2007