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Sports
Commissioners to Give College Presidents Playoff Options
The conference commissioners who have been crafting a four-team playoff to determine college football’s national champion will present the BCS presidential oversight committee choices in multiple formats.
June 13, 2012
Opinion
Commentary: Punitive Standardized Testing Produces Unstandardized Schools
Students in vastly different schools are taking the same tests, which is and has always been incredibly unfair, writes University of Albany historian Ibram Rogers.
June 13, 2012
STEM
Academic Leaders Share STEM Education Ideas
Among key points made at the National Science Foundation’s 2012 Joint Annual Meeting, high educational attainment in STEM disciplines becomes easier to reach when academic leaders take systematic approaches toward change and make mentoring a big part of their programs.
June 13, 2012
African-American
Emory Professor Natasha Trethewey Named 19th U.S. Poet Laureate
Pulitzer prize-winner Natasha Trethewey, an English and creative writing professor at Emory University in Atlanta, has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate.
June 12, 2012
Home
Interview: The Tanning of America with Dr. Marcia Alesan Dawkins
A Brown University scholar cautions that the growing increase in non-White births in the U.S. will not guarantee more social justice in America in the coming decades.
June 12, 2012
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New U.S. Education Department Data Identify High- and Low-Cost Schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s latest college cost report shows minority-serving institutions with some of the lowest net prices nationwide while others struggle to keep tuition down.
June 12, 2012
International
China to America Student Flow Continues to Grow
The influx of Chinese students in America helps promote and incubate a global workforce.
June 12, 2012
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MTSU Making Efforts to Increase Graduation Rate
Middle Tennessee State University is making efforts to increase its graduation rate, but still just over half its students are completing college within six years.
June 11, 2012
Asian American Pacific Islander
Professor’s Textbook Explores Rich History of Koreans in America
With chapters authored by a distinguished assembly of scholars, Koreans in America brings together discussions of history, personal essays, demographic information and other research.
June 11, 2012
Sports
2012 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Women’s Award Recipient: Chelsea Garcia
This year’s top female Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award recipient, Chelsea Garcia of Oklahoma State University, credits her parents with instilling in her the work ethic to excel both in the classroom and on the field.
June 11, 2012
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Police: Three Killed in Shooting Near Auburn University
Investigators were searching for a gunman who killed three people including two former Auburn University football players and wounded three others at a pool party near campus after several men began punching each other in a fight over a woman, authorities and witnesses said Sunday.
June 10, 2012
Home
Dr. Teresa Sullivan to Step Down as University of Virginia President
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan, the first woman to lead the University of Virginia, will resign in a mutual parting announced Sunday.
June 10, 2012
Community Colleges
Dual Enrollment Programs Gaining Prominence as Means to Enhance College Prep Options
Dual enrollment represents an effective way to get more students to graduate from high school with two-year degrees, but too little research has been done to track the progress of program graduates who have gone on to four-year colleges, a leading researcher on dual enrollment programs said last week at an education forum in Washington, D.C.
June 10, 2012
Sports
2012 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Men’s Award Recipient: Victor Ojeleye
As this year’s male Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award recipient, Victor Ojeleye of Kansas State University has demonstrated the commitment to go the extra mile on behalf of teammates and the K-State community.
June 10, 2012
African-American
FAMU President James Ammons Gets No-confidence Trustees Vote
The president of Florida A&M University received a no-confidence vote Thursday from school trustees for his handling of a school hazing death, but he said afterward that he won’t resign.
June 7, 2012
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U.S. Education Dept. Official: Competency-based Schooling a Valid Focus for American Higher Education
Competency-based education is an “important building block” in the push to make higher education more productive, a U.S. Department of Education official said Thursday.
June 7, 2012
Sports
Seeking a Climate Change in College Athletics
The NCAA Office of Inclusion seeks to change campus culture in bid to promote diversity at all levels of intercollegiate sport.
June 7, 2012
Community Colleges
New Group Raising Community Colleges’ Profile
Community college leaders in Virginia and other states say their schools’ roles in giving students an affordable education and job training are undervalued, so they’re banding together to fight for federal policy changes.
June 6, 2012
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