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New Blood Transfusion Center for Man’s Best Friend
The University of California, Davis, recently launched a new communitybased canine blood donor program through its School of Veterinary Medicine.
May 14, 2008
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Taking the Road of Lifelong Learning
The late Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III, renowned Pan- Africanist scholar, is being remembered with a $5,000 scholarship named in his honor by Road Scholar, an initiative of the world’s largest not-for-profit educational travel organization for adults, Elderhostel.
May 14, 2008
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Students
Policymakers Seek to Ensure No Disruptions In Student Loan Availability
Congressional leaders are considering a variety of bills to impede a late summer student loan crisis.
May 14, 2008
Students
False Alarms
Attention-seeking students fabricate crimes to generate the media and community response that real campus tragedies command.
May 14, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Forming a Pipeline To the Presidency
Many efforts have helped increase the number of women and ethnic minorities in college presidencies, but Asian Americans have not kept pace.
May 14, 2008
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Faculty & Staff
POLITICOS TURNED PROFESSORS
Former politicians are turning down lucrative job offers elsewhere to teach students who are interested in, but sometimes cynical about, the political process.
May 14, 2008
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The Early Study Abroad Trend
A growing number of South Korean students are going to English speaking countries as teenagers in hopes of gaining entry into American universities.
May 14, 2008
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Time for a Truth-In-Graduation Disclosure Policy
It’s that time of year again, when hope springs eternal, smiles of pride break out, tears of victory are shed. It’s graduation time. Already our mailboxes are finding relief from the steady stream of junk mail and monthly bills. Mixed in are graduation announcements from neighbors, young and old, and relatives near and far. Milestones reached, at last.
May 14, 2008
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Students
Research Points the Way to Building Blocks Of Student Success
A high school diploma still marks a critical education milestone in people’s lives. However, in today’s economy, it has lost its edge in providing individual workplace advantage and economic self-sufficiency.
May 14, 2008
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Professional Appointments
Dr. Edna Mora Szymanski has been appointed president of Minnesota State University, Moorhead, effective in July. She currently serves as senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine. Szymanski holds a bachelor’s from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a master’s from the University of Scranton and a doctorate from the University of […]
May 14, 2008
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Grants & Gifts
The CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has received a $10 MILLION gift from writer Michael “Mickey” Ross to establish a Jewish studies center at the college. KALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE has received a $331,692 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its life-science center. A LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY chemist, Barry Dellinger, […]
May 14, 2008
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Diverse Calendar
June 2-6 African-American Leadership Institute UCLA Anderson School of Management University of California, Los Angeles Web: www.anderson.ucla.edu/EEPaali.xml June 10-14 National Association of Black Accountants Inc. 37th Annual National Convention and Expo Hilton Hotel AtlantaAtlanta Web: www.nabainc.org June 11-15 2008 International Assessment and Retention Conference “Assessment Reconsidered: Improving Learning, Student Success and Transparency” West Klerland Resort […]
May 14, 2008
Students
Asian Evasion: A Recipe for Flawed Resolutions
Asians are arguably one of the most misunderstood groups in higher education. Even categorizing “Asian” students can be quite confusing. For example, should data be disaggregated by different Asian subgroups?
May 14, 2008
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Opinion
Love and responsibility are keys to the Covenant
Tavis Smiley’s “The Covenant With Black America” has been out a couple of years and it, along with the the companion book entitled “The Covenant in Action,” is a must read if you are interested in grass roots change.  As many of you will recall, Tavis Smiley had a talk show with Black Entertainment Television some years […]
May 13, 2008
Community Colleges
10-year-old Scholar Takes Calif. College By Storm
With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music.
May 13, 2008
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U. of Okla. Freshman, 19, Elected Mayor of Muskogee
A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state.
May 13, 2008
Students
NC System Reverses Itself, Won’t Admit Undocumented
North Carolina community colleges will have to wait longer for a resolution to a controversy over admitting undocumented students that has been brewing since the system issued a directive last December to do so as part of the prevailing open-admissions policy
May 13, 2008
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Southern California Districts Facing ‘No Child Left Behind’ Sanctions
At Las Palmitas Elementary School, nestled between rundown homes and fields of grapes, peppers and dates in Southern California, 99 percent of students live in poverty and fewer than 20 percent speak English fluently.
May 13, 2008
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