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Students
‘Tough Love’ Urged in Higher Education Reform Plan
An Education Trust study urges federal action on four-year institutions falling within the bottom 5 percent of colleges on access, graduation rates, and student loan repayment performance.
June 18, 2014
Students
Fayetteville State University Alumnus Gives $1M
An alumnus of Fayetteville State University is giving a $1 million gift to his alma mater’s fundraising campaign.
June 17, 2014
HBCUs
University of Alabama Birmingham Launching Human Rights Institute
University of Alabama Birmingham officials say the school has been approved to move forward with creating a new human rights institute.
June 17, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Randolph-Macon College’s Less Heralded Congressional Candidate Puts Education Atop Agenda
Democratic nominee Jack Trammell will take on fellow Randolph-Macon professor David Brat, who barreled into the political spotlight with an upset of incumbent Eric Cantor, in Virginia’s seventh district race.
June 17, 2014
Students
NCAA Begins Making Its Case for Amateurism
The women’s athletic director at the University of Texas testified Tuesday that paying basketball and football players would tear apart the very foundation the school’s athletics are based upon.
June 17, 2014
Home
Review: 80% of Teacher Prep Programs in U.S. Get Mediocre or Failing Grade
In an effort to drive the ongoing discussion on the quality of educator preparation programs in the United States—or lack thereof—the National Council on Teacher Quality on Tuesday released a bigger and bolder version of its controversial Teacher Prep Review.
June 17, 2014
African-American
Higher Ed Advocate, Philanthropist Jim Rogers Dies
Jim Rogers, a philanthropist and education advocate who served as chancellor of Nevada’s higher education system from 2005 to 2009 without pay, died Saturday evening at his Las Vegas home after a bout with cancer.
June 16, 2014
Home
Chicago, New York, Hawaii Bid for Obama Library
At least six locations in three different states entered official bids by Monday’s deadline in an effort to house Barack Obama’s presidential library.
June 16, 2014
Opinion
Searching for Meaning and Justice
What do you say to someone who has already made the ultimate graduation? Good luck? A posthumous ceremony for a young man is really for the living.
June 16, 2014
Asian American Pacific Islander
Intervention Programs Having Positive Impact on AAPI Educational Achievement
AAPI community college students who participate in federally funded intervention programs are likelier than nonparticipating peers to earn associate’s degrees.
June 16, 2014
HBCUs
Plan to House Immigrant Children at St. Paul’s University on Hold
Hundreds of Central American children and teenagers are to be housed on the campus of the closed college in rural Virginia amid complaints by local officials.
June 16, 2014
Students
Why Refuse Koch Brothers’ Gift ― A Practical Perspective
With all the debate about the recent $25 million gift to UNCF, there have been few, if any, opinions from those of us in the fundraising trenches.
June 16, 2014
Community Colleges
Starbucks Offers Its Employees an Educational Break
In collaboration with Arizona State University, the company will pay employees’ college tuition during their junior and senior years.
June 16, 2014
Faculty & Staff
William Peace University Offers Faculty Buyout
William Peace University in Raleigh is offering buyouts to many of its tenured faculty members.
June 15, 2014
Home
University of New Orleans: Layoffs Likely Will Follow Elimination of Fields
The University of New Orleans has announced that a working group will determine which of the university’s 84 degree programs will be eliminated in the coming months.
June 15, 2014
Home
New Jersey Study Underscores Importance of State-level College Research
What New Jersey residents had to say and how the research will be utilized in education advocacy at the state level has national implications.
June 15, 2014
Sports
NCAA Athletes Could Make Big Money Under Plan
University of San Francisco economist Daniel Rascher based his testimony at the NCAA antitrust trial on the 55 percent of broadcast revenue the NFL shares with its players.
June 15, 2014
Faculty & Staff
HBCU Education Deans Hope Brainstorming Proves Fruitful
Education deans from HBCUs from across the nation gathered at Rutgers University to strategize on how best to strengthen teacher education programs at their respective institutions.
June 15, 2014
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