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Medical Schools Experiencing Increase in Applicants, Enrollments
Despite the staggering costs of a medical degree, the number of students enrolled in medical schools has reached a new high of 20,343, according to a new report released by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
October 30, 2014
Native Americans
Remembering The First
The American Indian College Fund suggests that one of the ways to observe Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian Heritage Day, is to read a book about the history of the native people. Most people know very little about the “First Americans” – first to occupy our continent — and all of […]
October 30, 2014
Students
Mexico Investigators Comb Gully for 43 Missing Students
Forensic experts combed a gully in southern Mexico on Tuesday for the remains of 43 missing students, as frustration mounted among relatives of both the disappeared and the detained over the lack of answers more than a month into the investigation.
October 29, 2014
HBCUs
Student: I Didn’t Report Harassment Out of Fear
A man who accuses a former Pennsylvania university administrator of groping him says he didn’t report it out of fear he’d be perceived as gay.
October 29, 2014
African-American
Scholars Find Obama’s Education Legacy Remains Up for Debate
As President Barack Obama hits the midpoint of his second term, many have begun to consider what will be his legacy, particularly as it relates to education.
October 29, 2014
Students
Retention, Graduation Efforts of Akron Area Pays Dividends
The Akron metropolitan area of Northeast Ohio won a $1 million prize for success in helping students stay in college and graduate, beating out 56 other regions across the country competing for the Talent Dividend Prize.
October 29, 2014
Sports
The Secret Sauce of College Admissions
The truth is that selectivity is often based on how you measure and value it.
October 29, 2014
Latinx
Pipeline Programs Hope to Bring More Physicians to Underserved Communities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported in June that it would take approximately 8,200 additional primary care physicians to eliminate all of the currently designated “health professional shortage areas,” or HPSAs.
October 29, 2014
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Accuser: Former East Stroudsburg University VP Groped, Gave Gifts
A former state university student told jurors on Tuesday he wishes he had never met the high-ranking administrator whom he had looked to as a mentor, but who he claims molested him when he was a college freshman.
October 28, 2014
Students
Search for Missing Mexico Students Finds More Dead
Mexican authorities searching for 43 missing college students have found human remains in a new area of southern Guerrero state and are testing to see if they belong to the young men who last were seen in police custody a month ago, a government official said Monday.
October 28, 2014
Community Colleges
Are Civility and Good Manners Waning?
According to a number of psychologists and social scientists, there is evidence of a growing decline of civility in American society.
October 28, 2014
African-American
Cheyney University Coalition to File Federal Lawsuit to Save School
A broad-based coalition of Cheyney University supporters plan to file a federal lawsuit today claiming a history of racial discrimination from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania toward the nation’s oldest Black institution of higher learning.
October 28, 2014
Sports
NCAA Graduation Rates Improve, Critics Cry Foul
NCAA President Mark Emmert keeps touting the record-breaking graduation rates of Division I athletes. Critics keep balking at the interpretation of those numbers, citing recent academic scandals.
October 28, 2014
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Free College Advising to Be Offered to Students from Poor and Middle Class Families
Project collaborators say they hope the initiative will provide the students with the kind of personalized counseling that students from more affluent families tend to get from private counselors or their school-based guidance counselors.
October 28, 2014
Sports
Murray State Deferring Some Applications from Africa
Murray State University in Kentucky is deferring applications from students in West African countries affected by Ebola until the fall of 2015.
October 27, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Randolph-Macon College Prepares for Big-Stage Political Debate
Tiny Randolph-Macon College is set for its star turn tonight as it hosts a congressional debate between two faculty members.
October 27, 2014
African-American
HBCUstory Symposium Convenes in D.C., Provides Healing for Founder
A group of historians (and just plain storytellers) gathered in the nation’s capital over the weekend to discuss the past, present and future of historically Black colleges and universities in this country.
October 27, 2014
HBCUs
Former East Stroudsburg University VP Faces Accusers in Civil Trial
Now in their 20s and early 30s, these former college students are pursuing the justice they say they’ve so far been denied by law enforcement.
October 27, 2014
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