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Students
New Jersey Police Charge Two in Fatal College Shooting
Two men were charged Monday in the weekend shooting at an off-campus house party that left a Seton Hall University student dead and four other people wounded.
September 27, 2010
STEM
STEM Teacher Recruitment Effort Launched by Obama Administration
President Barack Obama announced a goal of recruiting 10,000 teachers who work in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math over the next two years.
September 27, 2010
Students
Latino College Completion Campaign Moves Forward With Collaboration Strategy
Excelencia in Education spearheads collaboration among advocacy groups to improve Hispanic college attendance and graduation rates.
September 27, 2010
Community Colleges
U.S. Education Department Delays Rule Opposed by For-profit Colleges
The U.S. Education Department said it will take more time to finish new regulations targeting for-profit college job-training programs.
September 26, 2010
African-American
Pioneering Black Physician Honored in New York City
Celebrated during his lifetime as an anti-slavery leader, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first professionally trained African-American doctor, fell into obscurity after his death in 1865.
September 26, 2010
Students
Black Caucus Foundation Scholarships Went to People Tied to Ga. Lawmaker
The controversy over Rep. Sanford Bishop’s decision to award scholarships to his relatives has expanded as four more students tied to the south Georgia Democrat have acknowledged receiving them as well.
September 26, 2010
Students
Mexican Drug Conflict Threatens U.S. College Study Abroad Programs
U.S. State Department’s travel advisory compels some institutions to withdraw their students from the country for safety concerns.
September 26, 2010
Students
Private College Associations Introduce Student Access Website
A project begun by two leading associations of non-profit private U.S. higher education institutions targets the national goal of re-establishing the U.S. as the world’s leader in college completion.
September 23, 2010
Students
ACLU: GSU’s E-Mail Policy Violates Constitution
A First Amendment issue is brewing at Grambling State University in the wake of the president’s summer e-mail message to students, prohibiting political expression via e-mail.
September 23, 2010
Faculty & Staff
PhD Project Tackles Business School Deanship Diversity
After making an indelible impact on business faculty ranks, The PhD Project sets its sights on diversity among business school deans.
September 23, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Mississippi Universities Seek Restoration of Stimulus Funds
Anticipating the coming dearth of federal stimulus funding, Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds says Mississippi’s universities have shaved $91 million from operating expenses, but will still need more state money next fiscal year.
September 22, 2010
Latinx
Future Scholars Program Guides Tucson 5th Graders to College
Aida Garcia-Iniguez-Madero’s Tucson fifth-graders learned recently that planning for college now is as important as learning fractions and proper grammar.
September 22, 2010
Students
Special Report: Puerto Rico’s Eleven Campuses, One University, Many Strikes
The two-month-long student strike that shuttered 10 of 11 University of Puerto Rico campuses this year has been settled, but the underlying issues that contributed to the unrest are far from resolved.
September 22, 2010
Opinion
Doctorates in the Dance Cipher
While at the University of Colorado-Boulder recently, I crossed paths with perhaps the most unexpected recipient of an honorary doctorate in all of last academic year. At its 144th commencement ceremony this spring, Bates College in Maine recognized the creative genius of pioneering hip-hop dance choreographer Rennie Harris and awarded him an honorary doctoral degree. […]
September 21, 2010
African-American
EEOC Accuses Calif. University of Discrimination
A federal agency that fights work place discrimination says a private Southern California university denied tenure to a Black professor due to her race and later fired her.
September 21, 2010
Sports
Latina Athletic Director Thrives on Learning and Teaching
As the athletic director at St. Francis College, a Division I institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., Irma Garcia finds fulfillment in teaching others the rules of sports and sports administration.
September 21, 2010
Latinx
DREAM ACT Fails With Senate Rejection of Defense Spending Bill
The chance for thousands of young people to legally remain in the U.S. evaporated Tuesday when Republicans blocked a defense spending bill in the U.S. Senate.
September 21, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Scrutiny of U.S. Higher Education Increasing, College Forum Panelists Say
As the Obama Administration continues its push to make the United States the most-college educated nation in the world by 2020, institutions of higher learning should expect increased media and governmental scrutiny around issues of quality and accountability, experts said Tuesday at a Washington forum on college completion.
September 21, 2010
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