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Faculty & Staff
Playing for the President, Grambling Marching Band to Return to Washington
The Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band expects to make history as the only college or university band to perform during the Obama inauguration parades of 2009 and 2013.
January 14, 2013
Leadership & Policy
FBI Probed SC State as Legislative Audit Unfolded
In summer 2011, officials at South Carolina State University were defending the school’s transportation center, a multi-million-dollar project in which a state audit had found mismanagement and poor planning but no overt impropriety.
January 13, 2013
Students
Indiana Universities Oppose Bill Allowing Guns on Campus
Universities across Indiana are cautiously eying a state lawmaker’s proposal that would prohibit them from banning guns on campus.
January 13, 2013
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Presidents Stood Up for Civil Rights
This past December, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) released two new videos in their series of oral history videos that link seasoned activists with emergent leaders.
January 13, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Alabama Schools Form Consortium to Boost Health Care Workforce Diversity
College leaders representing more than a dozen Alabama institutions signed up their respective schools to join a state-based consortium organized to increase the number of minorities in the health care professions.
January 13, 2013
Health
Brain Debugger: Dr. Brian K. Lee
Dr. Lee, named a 2013 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, works to find answers about autism.
January 13, 2013
Opinion
Pakistan, India Incidents Underscore Need to Confront Violence Against Women
Dr. Anita Nahal says “any abuse committed against women and children around the world is actually a crime against humanity.”
January 13, 2013
African-American
Maryland Eastern Shore President Leading STEM Charge
Under Dr. Juliette Bell’s leadership, UMES awarded a record 166 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines combined during 2011-’12, exceeding the previous year’s total by 42 percent.
January 13, 2013
Disabilties
New Pell Grant Restrictions Lower Enrollment
New regulations enacted by Congress in June have stripped Pell Grant eligibility from nearly 3,000 Mississippi students.
January 10, 2013
HBCUs
UO Diversity Official Defends Personnel Changes
A University of Oregon administrator defended her decision to restructure the Office of Equity and Inclusion and demote three vice presidents.
January 10, 2013
Students
Looking Up: Dr. Adia Harvey Winfield
Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield Follows Examples of Her Parents; Explores Race, Class And Gender Issues.
January 10, 2013
Community Colleges
Indiana to Incentivize Graduation
Indiana’s education chief says lawmakers need to make wiser investments in higher education to improve the state’s college graduation rate, including new financial aid incentives for students who earn top grades and graduate on time.
January 10, 2013
Home
Report Explores Differences Among States that Affect College Funding
When it comes to securing stronger investments in higher education at the state level, it pays to understand how funding decisions get influenced by a complex set of political, economic and cultural dynamics that are unique to a given state.
January 10, 2013
Students
One In Four Freshmen Now Starts In January, Not August
When she graduated from her high school in Pittsburgh last spring, Mikaela Molstre didn’t follow her classmates to college.
January 9, 2013
HBCUs
FAMU Student Paper Faces Hazing-Related Libel Suit
Florida A&M University’s student newspaper has delayed publication of its first spring semester edition, due in part to a libel suit over a hazing story.
January 9, 2013
Home
D.C.’s Controversial Former Chancellor Releases New Ed. Policy Report Card
A new report card released Wednesday gives mostly mediocre and poor grades to states on whether their education policies are conducive to raising student achievement. But it was the report card itself that earned some unfavorable marks during its national debut.
January 9, 2013
Community Colleges
Dr. Gerardo Dominguez’s Work Explores Natural Phenomena
Dr. Gerardo Dominguez’s push to excel academically was fueled by a desire for respect, something not necessarily afforded to a poor Hispanic kid growing up in Los Angeles.
January 9, 2013
Students
Pew Report Finds that College Degrees Shelter Economic Stability
A recent report released by Pew Charitable Trusts found that graduates holding four-year college degrees are in actuality more protected in a pernicious economy than those with lesser education credentials.
January 9, 2013
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