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Report: College Endowments Suffer Huge Declines

College and university endowments suffered huge losses in the fiscal year that ended last June, a new report finds, but stronger investment returns in recent months point to a rebound.

January 28, 2010

African-American

Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge

An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

January 28, 2010

Academy Standing Up for the Count

With federal dollars on the line, colleges are working to prevent an undercount of college students in the 2010 Census.

January 28, 2010

Dr. Charlie Nelms, chancellor of North Carolina Central University

Diversity in the Professoriate: When are We Going to Get Serious?!

Often I hear faculty colleagues at my institution and across the nation talking about the need to diversify the professoriate. People say, “I wish we could find more applicants of color” or “It would be great to have more faculty of color here” or “I wonder how other institutions recruit faculty of color” or my […]

January 27, 2010

Obama Cites Key Education Priorities—But Also Fiscal Restraints

President Barack Obama last night called for new initiatives on college affordability—many of them aimed at low-income students—while also seeking a spending freeze that could affect the long-term outlook of other established programs.

January 27, 2010

Community Colleges

Scholars Tout Community College Revitalization

The Washington-based Center for American Progress released three research papers Wednesday detailing how the nation’s community colleges can help lead the revitalization of U.S. postsecondary education and reinvigorate American work-force development for the 21st century.

January 27, 2010

President Barack Obama at Macomb Community College

Leadership & Policy

Cal State Unveils Plan to Increase Graduation Rates for Students of Color

An initiative aimed at increasing the graduation rates of under-represented students at the nation’s largest university system has critics concerned some provisions will dilute quality education and exacerbate existing gaps.

January 27, 2010

Students celebrate during CSU commencment ceremony

Girls May Learn Math Anxiety from Female Teachers

Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has provoked controversy.

January 26, 2010

Girls and math, a troubled relationship

Leadership & Policy

Minority Male Plight Demands Broad U.S. Action, College Board Says

A College Board report highlighting the “overwhelming barriers” U.S. minority males confront in becoming educated and productive citizens.

January 26, 2010

Minority males face overwhelming barriers to becoming productive citizens, report says.

No Tolerance for Tardiness

In the five-plus years I have been an educator, I have always been a stickler for attendance. I always jot down my absent and tardy students and enforce grade deductions at the end of the semester. Part of the reason I’m so tenacious when it comes to holding students accountable is because of my experience […]

January 25, 2010

Analysis: Haiti Has Opportunity to Transform

Experts agree that key to lifting Haiti from the virtual dark ages is a strengthening of democratic institutions, enabling Haitians to help themselves.

January 25, 2010

Panel Approves Justice Reform Bill

After months of inaction, a U.S. Senate panel has approved a comprehensive review of the nation’s criminal justice system, including issues such as the disproportionate share of minorities — particularly African-Americans — in U.S. prisons.

January 25, 2010

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.

World Bank Seeks Diverse U.S. Employees

This past fall the World Bank launched a new chapter in its long-running diversity and inclusion efforts by inaugurating the US Minorities Working Group.

January 25, 2010

Translating the Rules of the Game

Over the so-called semester “break,” I cruised through two books that had been on my “to-read” list for a while: Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (Yale University Press) and Rebecca D. Cox’s The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another (Harvard University Press). As […]

January 24, 2010

Foreign students excluded from university union

International students won’t be allowed to join a union for research assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under a new policy that labor activists believe is the first of its kind in the U.S.

January 24, 2010

Health Care Debate Carries Implications for College Students

While pundits in Washington, D.C., assess the effect of the Massachusetts Senate outcome on the future of health care reform, college leaders also are focusing on another stumbling block to final action: how the government will treat health plans for 3 million college students.

January 24, 2010

Putting Priorities and Expectations in Perspective

How do you prioritize higher education when you are struggling to survive and provide for your own family? The recent devastation in Haiti is a vivid reminder for me of this reality. In Haiti, as in many impoverished Latin American countries, survival is the priority, not college. We can pontificate all we want about […]

January 21, 2010

Leadership & Policy

East Carolina Tabs McNeill as Holtz’s Replacement

East Carolina University has turned to former Texas Tech defensive coordinator Ruffin McNeill to replace Skip Holtz, making the East Carolina alumnus the 16th minority to hold a head coaching job in the 120-team NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision.

January 21, 2010