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African-American
Southern Faculty Oppose University’s Higher Admission Standards
The Southern University Faculty Senate voted Thursday to oppose recently approved increases in admission standards.
April 4, 2010
African-American
Georgia NAACP Sues State For Underfunding Public HBCUs
The Georgia NAACP has sued the state, claiming it has systematically underfunded its three public Black colleges and threatened their survival as a result.
April 4, 2010
Opinion
Using Good Customer Service in the Higher Education Marketplace
I have often said that people don’t want to know how much you know until they know how much you care. Students today have more choices than ever before on what to do when they graduate from high school. If their choice is college, then what will they and their parents be looking for before […]
April 1, 2010
African-American
Virginia College To Examine Its Racial History
The College of William and Mary is examining its role as a slave owner and its discrimination against Black people for decades after the Civil War and will look at current race relations.
April 1, 2010
African-American
Minority-focused STEM Funding Plan Raises Equity Concerns
A debate has emerged over science programs at minority-serving institutions and how best to prepare more students of color for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Loss of guaranteed funding and potential increased competition for NSF grants jeopardizes MSI programs, advocates say.
April 1, 2010
Students
Report: For-Profit Schools Better Value for Low-Income Students Than Two-Year Publics
Researchers commissioned by a leading career college company released a report Thursday claiming that private-sector institutions increase access and student success among first-generation, low-income, and non-traditional students better than two-year public colleges.
April 1, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Professors Enlighten Radio Audiences With Philosophy Talk
Two California philosophy professors have mused and opined on the radio airwaves for six years. Their growing audience illustrates the receptiveness among the public to set aside time for quiet reflection
March 31, 2010
STEM
Justice Center Trains Future Lawyers, Seeks Criminal Justice Reform
David A. Singleton believes that taking the long view in advocating for progressive change in the criminal justice system starts with the basics: legal education.
March 31, 2010
Students
Ph.D. Completion Study Documents Best Practices for Student Success
A major study of doctoral students at U.S. and Canadian universities reports that only 57 percent of Ph.D. candidates complete their programs within a decade, according to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) organization.
March 30, 2010
Students
Making it Mandatory
With high-profile digital devices such as the Apple iPad hitting the consumer market, higher education institutions consider the latest wave of mobile computing gadgets for adoption as campuswide tools.
March 30, 2010
Students
Obama Signs Law Sealing Health Care, Student Loan Reforms
Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.
March 30, 2010
Students
Students Should Know Grad School Options Well, McNair Advisers Told
Advisers in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program learned last week they will need to impress upon their students the necessity for increased understanding of graduate school options.
March 29, 2010
African-American
Preserving Black History, With Help From the Smithsonian
Smithsonian Institution officials hope the “Save Our African-American Treasures” tour also will turn up items for a national museum of Black American culture, set to open on the National Mall in Washington by 2015.
March 29, 2010
Students
Bipartisan Effort Vowed on Congressional Review of ‘No Child’ Law
Congressional leaders vow bipartisan cooperation in revising the K-12 law, while associations push changes they consider essential to minority student success.
March 29, 2010
Sports
Breaking Color Barrier Not Unique to Auburn’s First Black Head Basketball Coach
Auburn University’s Tony Barbee has impressive credentials as a Memphis assistant and a four-year head coach at UTEP, where he led the Miners to the Conference USA regular-season title and NCAA tournament appearance this past season.
March 28, 2010
STEM
Post-racialism Threatens Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Legal Scholars Say
Law professors at a Georgetown law school symposium Friday criticized the belief that race no longer matters as a factor in how Americans are treated by the nation’s legal system.
March 28, 2010
Native Americans
Climate Change-Themed STEM Curriculum Developed for Tribal Colleges
An AIHEC partnership helps tribal colleges build capacity to sustain science and technology education and research programs.
March 28, 2010
Faculty & Staff
STEM Careers and 21st Century Academic Racism
This week, I came across a study that found that a significant number of women and AALANAs (African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans) were discouraged from pursuing their STEM careers. In “Facts of Science Education XIV,” the research firm Campos surveyed 1,226 women and AALANA members of the American Chemical Society—particularly chemists and chemical engineers […]
March 25, 2010
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