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Duncan Urges NCAA To Look at Graduation Rates
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Wednesday said poor graduation rates among some college basketball programs would improve if the NCAA linked postseason play to the number of student-athletes getting their diplomas.
January 21, 2010
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan
Leadership & Policy
Higher Education Leaders Urged To Recognize U.S. Disparities, Their Impact on the Academy
Barack Obama’s presidential election may have convinced some Americans that they’re living in a post-racial society, but societal disparities persist between racial groups and are accentuated in American higher education, a distinguished University of Chicago historian told attendees at a Washington higher education event.
January 21, 2010
Dr. Ramon Gutierrez, University of Chicago
Opinion
Race and Representation
I don’t think I’ve given YouTube and some of the other web video portals their just due as pedagogical tools. However, my class this week focuses on the representations of African-Americans in the media over the past 100 years. I showed my students a clip of failed “American Idol” contestant Larry Platt’s “Pants on the […]
January 20, 2010
Health
Lastword: Learning to Celebrate and Cope With Professional Success, Workplace Challenges
ave you had your mental health “tune-up” today? It’s not such a strange question when you think about stress levels brimming over and the frenetic pace of our professional pursuits in these tumultuous economic times.
January 20, 2010
Students
On The Move
DR. KENNETH BOUTTE is program officer in the Division of Human Resource Development, Directorate for Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation. Boutte serves as a professor of biology and dean of freshman studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. Boutte holds a bachelor’s from Xavier University of Louisiana and a doctorate from […]
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
Grants And Gifts
The Danforth Foundation has awarded WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST. LOUIS) $30 MILLION to establish the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. The center will convene public conferences and lectures to address local, state and national issues related to religion and politics. NASA has granted FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY $1 MILLION to establish the Minority Innovation […]
January 20, 2010
Students
Community College Forum: Is Diogenes on Your Campus?
Community colleges must prize integrity by deliberately developing proactive, innovative and inclusive strategies to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students.
January 20, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Banking On Diversity
Boasting a racially and culturally diverse work force, the World Bank aims to spread awareness about its mission to increase employment of under-represented U.S. minorities.
January 20, 2010
Students
A Cut Below
California students and faculty grapple with the effects of a state budget crisis in postsecondary education.
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases
Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.
January 20, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Spectrum: Advice from the President’s Desk
When Dr. Claibourne Smith left Delaware State University’s board of trustees in the summer of 2008 to become interim president of the school, he knew he had a task ahead.
January 20, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Letters – January 21, 2010 Issue
Readers share opinions on recent Diverse stories.
January 20, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Protest Against Budget Cuts Held at LSU
The latest round of college budget cuts, combined with threats of still more to come, provoked protest Tuesday from LSU faculty and students and a burgeoning movement that promised more organized opposition when negotiations on next year’s budget begin.
January 20, 2010
La. Governor Bobby Jindal
African-American
Scholars Speak Out on Haiti
In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Diverse interviews three scholars of Haitian descent who study the island nation and teach its history and culture on the college level.
January 20, 2010
Robert Fatton
Opinion
Endangered Species: Male Students of Color in Higher Education
Editor’s note: This blog post was co-authored by Dr. Luis Ponjuan.   There is growing concern among educators, researchers, and many local communities over the educational plight of male students of color.  Postsecondary enrollment patterns over the past two decades highlight a disturbing trend that traditional college-aged males compared to their female peers are less likely to […]
January 19, 2010
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT
Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”
January 19, 2010
Community Colleges
Community College Forum – Is Diogenes on Your Campus
Community colleges must prize integrity by deliberately developing proactive, innovative and inclusive strategies to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students.
January 19, 2010
Home
Report: More Men Get Economic Boost From Marriage
Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women, but men are increasingly getting the bigger economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data.
January 19, 2010
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