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African-American
College Survey: Finance Worries Up, Politics Shift
Each year since 1966, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute has conducted a massive survey of incoming freshmen at four-year colleges, asking questions about their motivations, their plans and their political views.
January 24, 2013
Community Colleges
PSU Names College Official as Integrity Officer
Penn State has named an eastern Pennsylvania college administrator to be its first athletics integrity officer.
January 24, 2013
Students
North Carolina HBCUs Hold Hazing Summit
Five North Carolina HBCUs joined together in an effort to increase hazing awareness and attempt to combat it.
January 24, 2013
Students
Report: Prospective College Students are “Super Investigators”
Today’s college-minded high school student utilizes a wide array of information sources, ranging from traditional print literature to mobile websites accessible by smartphones to research likely school choices, a research report finds.
January 24, 2013
Home
Report Discusses Top Trends in Student Enrollment
Trends “have created a marketplace situation where higher education administrators must think differently and evolve in a manner that responds to the needs of individuals, families and our society.”
January 24, 2013
Students
It’s Tough to Trailblaze: Challenges of First-Generation College Students
College attendance has become less of a privilege and more of a necessity in the contemporary workforce.
January 23, 2013
Leadership & Policy
Bankrupt Lon Morris College Campus Sold at Auction
The oldest junior college in Texas has been sold at auction with much of the property going to the local school district and an office supply company.
January 23, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Latest NCAA Scandal Comes from Headquarters
In an embarrassing blow to its watchdog image, the NCAA said Wednesday its enforcement staff had botched the high-profile investigation of the University of Miami by improperly conducting at least two depositions while working with an attorney for disgraced booster Nevin Shapiro.
January 23, 2013
African-American
With Focus on Diversity, Jackson State to Open Satellite Campus
In a move that’s expected to increase its student diversity, Jackson State University, a historically Black institution, will open a satellite campus in a predominantly White city.
January 23, 2013
Home
Financial Concerns Push Institutions to Consider Their Conference Affiliations
A series of studies was released last fall raising concerns that intercollegiate athletics was draining schools and pushing them toward their own fiscal cliff. As collegiate basketball season heats up, the conference affiliation scramble continues.
January 23, 2013
Native Americans
Idle No More Brings Native Voices, Tribal Education to the Forefront
Like many Natives and our allies across our Grandmother Earth, Unci Maka, I have joined the Idle No More movement, attending round dance gatherings, praying for Chief Theresa Spence and her supporters, sharing the stories I hear and read and perusing news and opinion pieces.
January 23, 2013
Students
Incoming Freshmen Consider Cost and Value of Degree When Choosing School
The desires to get a good job and earn more money are playing historically high roles in incoming freshmen’s reasons for going to college.
January 23, 2013
Opinion
4 False Racial Ideas for President Obama’s First 4 Years
I think I can speak for many Africana Studies professors when I say President Barack Obama has been ever on the lips of my students the last four years.
January 22, 2013
Sports
NCAA Division II Delegates Deny Mexico Pilot Program Membership
In a narrow vote of 138 for and 141 against, the NCAA Division II delegates opted not to extend to Mexican colleges the same invitation to begin the application for membership process that had been given to Canada in 2008.
January 22, 2013
Students
Tribal Colleges in NM Seek Scholarship Eligibility
Tribal colleges in New Mexico want their students to have the same eligibility for the state’s lottery scholarships as students attending state colleges and universities.
January 22, 2013
Students
HBCUs Increase International Presence by Hosting 1,000 Brazilian Students
Historically Black institutions are preparing to accommodate Brazilian students in support of the U.S.’s Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination.
January 22, 2013
African-American
Despite Great Strides, HBCUs and NCAA-Recognized Athletic Conferences Face Challenges
In 1912, nine college administrators gathered on the campus of Hampton Institute to discuss collegiate athletics at Black institutions of higher learning. The result of this meeting was the formation of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first athletic conference designated for Black collegiate sports.
January 22, 2013
Home
Group Finds Texas Admissions Policy Does Not Lead to Increased Diversity
The Texas law that guarantees admission into a public university for students who graduate in the top ten percent of their high school class “lives up to some of the expectations of its proponents,” but there is little evidence that the law leads to notable increases in diversity.
January 22, 2013
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