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North Carolina Community Colleges Urged To Restrict Undocumented Student Access
North Carolina’s community colleges should drop a lenient admissions policy for undocumented immigrants and return to more restrictive rules that follow federal law more closely, the state Attorney General’s Office said.
May 7, 2008
Students
New Jersey Lawmakers Question Plan to Reduce Community College Scholarship Awards
Vanessa Frost is thankful she’s not a year younger.
May 7, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Bowling Green State President Named Next Leader of Howard University
Bowling Green State University President Sidney A. Ribeau has been named president of Howard University, its Board of Trustees announced Wednesday.
May 7, 2008
Students
Report Measures Levels of Campus Inclusivity at Three Colleges and Universities
Intolerance, threats and verbal insults pervaded the campuses of three predominately White institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University, and Columbia College, according to a student survey in the recently released report, “If I’d Only Known.”
May 7, 2008
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HP Labs Director Seeks More Help From Academia
Trying to boost the output of its research labs, Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to get more help from scientists in universities.
May 7, 2008
Faculty & Staff
CSU Fresno Professor Suspended Over Alleged Threats To Students
California State University, Fresno has suspended a tenured professor after two students charged that he threatened to bring a gun to class and start shooting. Other students say Parks didn’t threaten the class, the Fresno Bee reported, but the incident has sparked a police investigation by Fresno State officials.   Jose Francisco Escutia, the first […]
May 6, 2008
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Life Without Interpreter Not Easy For UNK Student
Mark Dallman is like every other freshman at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
May 6, 2008
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Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation
A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.
May 6, 2008
Students
Conference Highlights Successful Schools
When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.
May 6, 2008
African-American
Survey: Nearly 60 Percent of Hispanic and Black Children Can’t Swim
Nearly 60 percent of Hispanic and African-American children cannot swim, almost twice the figure for White children, according to a first-of-its-kind survey that USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more minority children into the sport.
May 6, 2008
Sports
NCAA Academic Report: Some College Teams May Be Hit Hard
College teams that consistently underperform in the classroom are getting hit harder by the NCAA.
May 6, 2008
Students
Authorities arrest 75 students in drug bust at San Diego University
Authorities arrested 96 people, most of them students, as part of an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student’s fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday.
May 6, 2008
Opinion
African American teacher numbers need improvement
How do you become what you want to be?  When you ask children what they want their life’s work to be, you will hear a variety of answers.  They gain their perspectives obviously from a lot of sources.  Parents, grandparents, other love providers, coaches and teachers are just a few of the resources that kids […]
May 5, 2008
Recruitment & Retention
Task Force Presents Report on Iowa Universities and Minorities
Officials at Iowa’s public universities want to close the graduation and retention gap between white and minority students.
May 5, 2008
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Metal Detectors Installed in Jackson State Dorms
Students residing in Dixon and Alexander Residence Halls at Jackson State University must now walk through metal detectors upon entry into the buildings.
May 5, 2008
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Students
Experts Say Suicide, Not Homicide Is a Larger Threat to Nation’s College Campuses
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Northern Illinois University shootings have garnered much media attention, but suicide is a larger threat to the nation’s college students, said a panel at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington.
May 5, 2008
Students
Former Admissions Official Leads Fight Against Affirmative Action in Missouri
Tim Asher sat calmly and appeared unfazed moments before he was to address a roomful of Hispanic leaders, some of whom were likely to be hostile to his message that Missouri should end affirmative action programs based on race and gender.
May 5, 2008
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Controversies Crop Up Around Commencement Speaker Selections
NAACP chairman Julian Bond and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are the subjects of much scrutiny as they prepare to deliver commencement speeches this month at two East Coast universities.
May 4, 2008
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