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Social Media Increasing Fundraising Efforts at Colleges and Universities
Social media is increasingly playing a crucial role in the fundraising campaigns of colleges and universities.
June 28, 2015
Students
Bowie State President: HBCUS Must Be Competitive
For the second year in a row, a diverse group of college presidents, chancellors, deans and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities spent four days strategizing over how best to meet the needs of their students.
June 28, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Ohio State Denies Ex-band Director’s Defamation Claims
The reputation of Ohio State University’s fired band director was not harmed by the university or anyone acting on its behalf, the school said in a court filing asking a judge to dismiss the director’s $1 million defamation lawsuit.
June 25, 2015
Students
Government Names Special Master for Corinthian Student Debt
The Education Department appointed a special monitor Thursday to help develop a debt relief program for students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges ― a debt forgiveness plan that could cost billions of dollars.
June 25, 2015
Community Colleges
ED Scraps Plans for College Ratings System
The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is shelving plans to move forward on a controversial college rating system and instead will offer a tool providing data that allows the user to compare schools to each other.
June 25, 2015
Students
Study: Parents’ Education Key Factor in Student Achievement
When it comes to meeting “college readiness benchmarks” on the ACT, first-generation college students generally trail their peers who have more highly educated parents.
June 25, 2015
Students
Diverse on the Go
Senior Writer Jamal Watson is attending the 2015 HBCU Student Success Summit in Atlanta at the Omni Atlanta Hotel today through Saturday.
June 24, 2015
Sports
Smith-Jones Named Athletic Director at UC Riverside
Tamica Smith-Jones has been named director of intercollegiate athletics at the University of California, Riverside.
June 24, 2015
Students
11% of University of Michigan Students Report Unwanted Sexual Behavior
ANN ARBOR, Mich. ― The University of Michigan reports about 11 percent of students at its Ann Arbor campus students say they experienced some form of sexual behavior without their consent in the past year.
June 24, 2015
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Navient Begins Settlement Payments for Overcharging Servicemembers
In addition to paying out a total of $60 million to 77,795 servicemembers who were overcharged on their student loans, Navient must pay the federal government $55,000 in civil penalties.
June 24, 2015
African-American
HBCUs, HSIs Equipped to Aid Incarcerated Youth
A 2013 study by RAND concluded that prisoners were 43 percent less likely to be imprisoned after release because of educational programs.
June 24, 2015
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Analyst: Student Debt an Issue for 2016 Presidential Candidates
In order to win the White House in 2016, the candidate will have to develop a higher education agenda that deals with student debt, a political analyst says.
June 24, 2015
African-American
Move to Remove Confederate Flag a Good Starting Point
With a swiftness that no one could have possibly imagined, the Confederate battle flag potentially will be coming down in a number of places in the South following the lead of Gov. Nikki Haley’s actions Monday in South Carolina.
June 23, 2015
Students
Dispute Over ‘Animal House’ Frat Continues at Dartmouth
HANOVER, N.H. ― Dartmouth College is reinstating a policy that could block members of the fraternity that partly inspired the 1976 movie Animal House from living in its house after the school withdrew its recognition.
June 23, 2015
HBCUs
Washington State Might Name Med School for Floyd
SPOKANE, Wash. ― Support is growing to name the new Washington State University medical school for Elson Floyd, the school president who died last weekend of complications from colon cancer.
June 23, 2015
Sports
Confronting Assault Issues on Campus: Our Reality, Our Challenge
Late last year my personal life collided with my work life in regards to the issues of assault on college campuses.
June 23, 2015
Community Colleges
Court Upholds Tough Rules on For-profit College Loans
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that the Department of Education can demand that for-profit schools prove that their graduates make enough money to repay their student loans.
June 23, 2015
Leadership & Policy
An Open Letter from Orangeburg to Charleston
If the lessons learned from “yesterday’s sorrow” do not frame new patterns of action which abort or prevent “tomorrow’s” insult or injury, then what does ‘I am sorry’ really mean?
June 23, 2015
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