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Latinx
Alliance of 17 States Seeks To Boost College Completion Rates
More than a dozen states have formed an alliance to battle dismal college completion rates and figure out how to get more students to follow through and earn their diplomas.
March 2, 2010
Community Colleges
Locked Out of Higher Education
State budget cuts are crippling support for prison education programs throughout the U.S.
March 2, 2010
Disabilties
Road to the Battle
Despite financial difficulties, the Virginia State University Trojan Explosion Marching Band cranks it up as they prepare for their trip to the ultimate HBCU showcase, the Honda Battle of the Bands. Take a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be the best musical ensemble in the country–heart, dedication, and lots of practice.
March 1, 2010
Opinion
From Minority to AALANA, What’s in a Name?
About three years ago, I stopped referring to people of African, Latino, Asian, and Native American descent as minorities. I dropped the word “minority” from my spoken vocabulary for some of the same reasons many African-Americans buried Negro in the 1960s and instead started calling themselves Black or Afro-American. (Ironically, more than 50,000 people wrote […]
March 1, 2010
HBCUs
Virginia State University Drumline Performs at the White House
Less than a month after they performed with fellow band members in the Honda Battle of the Bands showcase, an eight-person drumline from the Virginia State University’s Trojan Explosion marching band entertained guests at the Feb. 26 executive order signing for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities by President Barack Obama.
March 1, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Louisiana’s Historically Black University System Nearing Selection of New Leader
Aiming to choose a new leader by mid-April, the Southern University system presidential search committee co-chairmen said they plan to narrow a field of 13 candidates this week and begin interviews this month
March 1, 2010
Students
Online Debate Rages Over White Team’s Step Competition Win
A white Arkansas sorority team’s win in an Atlanta step competition has stirred a fiery debate over the African-inspired tradition and whether the integration of a once-ethnically-exclusive activity constitutes a form of cultural theft.
March 1, 2010
Opinion
Misunderstanding History in the Age of Obama
On Feb. 26, President Barack Obama signed an executive order recognizing the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In honor of the event, the president said of HBCUs, “They are the campuses where a people were educated, where a middle class was built, where a dream took hold.”  As someone interested in […]
February 28, 2010
African-American
Obama Signs Black College Executive Order
President Barack Obama has signed an executive order strengthening the long-standing White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
February 28, 2010
Students
Angry UC-San Diego Students Protest Over Noose Found In Library
Anger boiled over on the University of California-San Diego campus Friday, where students took over the chancellor’s office for several hours to protest the hanging of a noose in a campus library.
February 28, 2010
Community Colleges
Debaters Find Common Ground on Need for College Accountability
Veteran higher education leaders, sparring over whether the U.S. workforce will need to increase its production of college graduates to remain a “world class” economic power, found common ground at a Washington higher education policy forum in urging that universities be held more accountable for providing a high-quality education that prepares students for the labor market.
February 28, 2010
Latinx
UT-Austin Professor Works To Close Latino Gender Gap in Higher Ed
Dr. Victor Saenz, an assistant professor of higher education administration at The University of Texas at Austin, has been at the forefront of the Latino male student achievement issue and on a crusade to move policymakers to action before it’s too late.
February 28, 2010
Students
Perspectives: Adapting to Achieve
Tailoring higher education to meet the needs of diverse learners will help the U.S. become globally competitive.
February 25, 2010
Students
Ex-Obama Adviser Will Become Princeton Fellow
President Barack Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser will teach at Princeton University.
February 25, 2010
Students
Obama Initiative May Cut Loan Burdens
Income-based student loan programs get a boost, to benefit struggling borrowers during this economic downturn.
February 25, 2010
Opinion
The Cos’ Effect
Nearly 20 years after its final episode, The Cosby Show continues to be a powerful teaching tool and an intense source of discussion. As someone who grew up watching the Huxtables, I often mistook the sitcom for reality. The Huxtables were not characters, but real people whose experiences I could relate to. Moreover, my connection […]
February 24, 2010
African-American
Black History Month Special: Oberlin’s Celebrated, But Difficult History
In his new book, the Oberlin emeritus archivist and professor of history talks about how his book painstakingly unravels clues of how the college faced the challenges of establishing a racially and culturally diverse institution from 1835 up to 2007.
February 24, 2010
Latinx
Caribbeans Urged to Write in Ancestry on U.S. Census
Identify yourself as being of “Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin” on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry. But check the box for “Black, African-American or Negro” and there will be no place to mark your identity.
February 24, 2010
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