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Leadership & Policy
Green Named New University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor
LINCOLN, Neb. ― The new chancellor of the University of Nebraska’s Lincoln campus has been selected from the university system’s ranks. Ronnie Green, 54, was named Wednesday as UNL’s new chancellor by NU President Hank Bounds. Green previously served as vice president for agriculture and natural resources of the NU system and is UNL’s Harlan […]
April 6, 2016
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Arkansas Program for Economically Disadvantaged Passes Test
In a new study, College Count$ found that 52 percent of the 27,517 CPI participants enrolled in the program between 2006 and 2013 obtained a certificate or degree.
April 6, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Report: 19 UC Berkeley Employees Violated Harassment Policy
BERKELEY, Calif. ― Documents released by the University of California, Berkeley show 19 employees, including six faculty members, were found to have sexually harassed students, employees or both since 2011. The records obtained Tuesday by the East Bay Times after a Public Records Act request reveal 11 new cases that had not been disclosed during […]
April 6, 2016
Students
Diverse Docket: Title IX Suit Against Stony Brook Moves Forward
Stony Brook University must defend a Title IX suit accusing it of deliberate indifference to the alleged sexual assault of a student, a federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., has ruled.
April 6, 2016
African-American
Colleges, Universities Traveling Different Paths to Diversity
Colleges and universities are taking different measures to make their campuses not only diverse, but inclusive.
April 6, 2016
Latinx
Puerto Rico Debt Crisis More Than Just an Economic Issue
Puerto Rico’s debt crisis is a humanitarian crisis impacting the most vulnerable groups on the island, human rights activists and lawyers said at a briefing on Capitol Hill recently.
April 5, 2016
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Charter High School Grads Persist in College, Earn Higher Salaries
Charter high school graduates persist in college at higher rates and earn higher salaries in their mid-20s than students who graduated from traditional public high schools, according to a new study.
April 5, 2016
African-American
Professor Tackles Turbulent History of Latinos and the LAPD
Scholars present research in the growing area of Chicana/o and Latina/o geography, specifically comparative racialization at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
April 5, 2016
Students
17-Year-Old Girl Gets Accepted to All Eight Ivy League Schools
While many 17-year-olds are deciding which Snapchat filter to use, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna has an even more difficult decision to make: Which Ivy League school should she attend? After all, she got accepted to all eight, plus MIT and NYU. The high-school senior, who is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, says that it was her parents […]
April 5, 2016
Students
Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
April 5, 2016
Students
Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion
Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.
April 5, 2016
African-American
Hundreds Talk Networking and Community Building at SAAB Conference
Hundreds of Black men gathered this weekend at the annual SAAB conference to decompress and reunite with others who are committed to advancing the success of other young Black men.
April 4, 2016
African-American
Only Half of U.S. Students Taking ‘College-Ready’ Courses
Only about half of all U.S. high school students actually take the sequence of courses they need to be considered ready for college and careers, according to a new report being released today by the Education Trust.
April 4, 2016
Students
Duke Students Persist in Demands for Asian American Studies Major
For several months, determined groups of Duke University students have called for the establishment of an Asian American studies major in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
April 4, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Thought Leader
Diverse salutes community college pioneer Terry O’Banion, the 2016 recipient of the Diverse Champion Award.
April 4, 2016
African-American
Princeton Decides to Keep Wilson Name on Campus
Princeton University will keep Woodrow Wilson’s name on its public policy school, despite calls to remove it because of his racist views. The Ivy League university’s board of trustees announced the decision Monday. It comes after a black student group demanded it be removed and for changes to the social and academic climate on campus. […]
April 4, 2016
Faculty & Staff
MICHELLE A. WILLIAMS
MICHELLE A. WILLIAMS has been appointed dean of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University, effective July 1. She is the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard. Williams earned a bachelor’s from Princeton University, a master’s from Tufts University, and a master’s and a doctorate from Harvard University.
April 4, 2016
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RAJ ACHARYA
RAJ ACHARYA has been appointed dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University Bloomington, effective July 1. He is director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science atPennsylvania State University. Acharya earned a bachelor’s from Bangalore University in India, a master’s from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota.
April 4, 2016
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