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Community Colleges
New Funding Urged for New Jersey Higher Education Reform
Despite the economic downturn, advocates say higher education reform in New Jersey should require that the state provide schools more support and financial autonomy.
January 4, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Universities Forced to Adapt as Demographics Shift
“Majority minority” college classes appearing earlier than expected.
January 3, 2011
Leadership & Policy
University of Arkansas-Little Rock Chancellor Establishing Racial Institute To Heal Old Wounds
Joel Anderson is following through on the diversity promise he made when he assumed the chancellorship six years ago.
January 3, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Theory in Practice
Rutgers University-Newark is a testing ground for demonstrating specific educational advantages of diversity.
January 3, 2011
Sports
Rising Star Coach Dismissed After Arrest
Mike Haywood, hired less than three weeks ago by Pitt, faces felony domestic violence charge.
January 2, 2011
African-American
Black Harvard Doctor Pens Memoir of Jim Crow South
Trailblazer now focuses on improving minority health care disparities.
January 2, 2011
HBCUs
South Carolina Program’s Success Highlights Minority Access Debate
Centers for Economic Excellence Program has drawn cheers from higher education and political officials as some point to the lack of women and minorities in its research programs.
January 2, 2011
Students
Historians Expose Error-Filled Virginia Textbooks
Controversial claim of Black Confederate soldiers just one of dozens of inaccurate or incorrect assertions in two textbooks.
January 2, 2011
Students
Educational Testing Service Provides a Facelift for the GRE
Updated exam, along with the new Personal Potential Index assessment, is expected to help close the achievement gap for minority graduate school applicants.
December 23, 2010
Students
Learning Life Lessons from Kemba
In sharing her story of redemption, Kemba Smith Pradia helps the vulnerable stay on track, one college student at a time.
December 23, 2010
African-American
NSF Grant Supports STEM Partnership Between Jackson State and a Mississippi Community College
An innovative collaboration between Jackson State University and a rural community college campus in Mississippi has resulted in a five-year, $1.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
December 23, 2010
Opinion
Has Technology Replaced Common Decency and Manners?
I was answering an email recently and thought about how far technology has taken us. In today’s need-it-right-now culture, a lot of things get done by simply pushing the send button on our computers. When did all of this actually start? Well, the age of technology is here and we are sitting right in the […]
December 22, 2010
STEM
Alabama Prisons Big Beneficiary of Education Stimulus Money
The biggest recipient of Alabama’s federal stimulus dollars for education isn’t a school system or college. It’s the state prison system.
December 22, 2010
LGBTQ+
Blacks, Women, Now Gays: Military To Adjust Again
The military has a new social challenge: Allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the ranks.
December 22, 2010
African-American
FAMU Law Students Transform Theory Into Potential Legislation
If all goes well during an upcoming presentation to Florida House members, three third-year students at the Florida A&M University College of Law may see their legislative proposal eventually enacted by the state legislature.
December 22, 2010
Opinion
TPFKARLH: The Professor Formerly Known as R.L. Hughes
I am protesting. I am not wearing a T-shirt. I am not adding an X to my name. I am not writing my name in all small letters or wearing a black arm band (but I wish that I had thought of all those brilliant forms of protest!). Instead, while recently listening to “Purple Rain,” […]
December 21, 2010
Students
‘Freedom Riders’: The Fight To End Segregation
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.
December 21, 2010
African-American
Kaplan Higher Education Sued Over Alleged Job Discrimination
Kaplan’s use of job applicants’ credit history discriminates because of race, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charges.
December 21, 2010
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