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HBCU Sexual Assault Study Released
Often precipitated by the consumption of alcohol, attempted or completed sexual assaults directly affect about 14 percent of all female students on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities, but the attacks often go unreported due to shame, guilt or fear.
March 20, 2011
African-American
Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs
African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.
March 20, 2011
Sports
George Mason University Marches to the Peppy Musical Mix of ‘Doc Nix’
Since coming to George Mason in 2006, pep band director Michael Nickens has been putting his unique style which blends Hip-Hop, Rock, R&B and Jazz on display to pump up the fans of the basketball team.
March 17, 2011
Sports
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Improve Division I Basketball Graduation Rates
As March Madness action was tipping off, Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined sports scholar Richard Lapchick and the NAACP president Ben Jealous to urge greater action on student-athlete graduation rates.
March 17, 2011
Students
IHEP Study: Graduation Makes a Difference in Avoidance of Delinquency on Student Loans
Specifically, the Institute for Higher Education Policy study found that only 22 percent of borrowers who graduated became delinquent without default, whereas 33 percent of those who left school without a credential became delinquent without default.
March 17, 2011
African-American
CIA Chief Leon Panetta Talks Diversity at Morehouse College
CIA Director Leon Panetta told students at the nation’s only all-male historically Black college that the agency needs a more diverse workforce that represents the world it engages.
March 16, 2011
Leadership & Policy
UMES President Thelma Thompson Announces Retirement
Her decision ends a nine-year tenure at the state’s lone 1890 land-grant university.
March 16, 2011
Home
For Music Education Professor Kay Roberts, Strings are Instrumental
University of Massachusetts Lowell music professor Kay George Roberts embarked upon a decade-long crusade to bring high-quality, low-cost music education to the children of Lowell, Mass.
March 16, 2011
Students
Two UCLA Professors Seek Campus Diversity Requirement
In the aftermath of a racially offensive Internet video, two University of Ca lifornia, Los Angeles professors are urging the administration to require diversity training for students in hopes of discouraging such incidents.
March 16, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Louisiana Regents Backs Consolidation of SUNO/UNO Management
Louisiana’s top higher education board has voted to back a consolidation of Southern University at New Orleans and the University of New Orleans under a new management structure.
March 15, 2011
Latinx
Maryland Immigrant In-state Tuition Bill Advances
A measure allowing some undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates in Maryland has passed the Maryland Senate.
March 15, 2011
Home
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste — Except in Ohio?
Ohio mother’s jailing and felony conviction calls attention to resegregation of public schools and lack of parental choice.
March 15, 2011
African-American
Academics Hail Public Online Posting of Historic Black Newspaper’s Archives
The posting online this winter of some 1 million newspaper articles published over the past century in the historic AFRO-American newspaper is being hailed by academics as a major development in expanding the general public’s grasp of African-American life.
March 15, 2011
Leadership & Policy
News Analysis: Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Regents Short on Diversity
By pushing out a 14-year-member of the Board of Regents to make room for a minority appointee, Gov. Bobby Jindal is acknowledging it doesn’t look good to pack the state’s top higher education board with White members.
March 14, 2011
African-American
La. Regents’ Consultant Suggests Options in SUNO/UNO Study
A consultant studying a controversial proposal to merge of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans suggested two options Monday to rework an educational system deemed to be failing the city’s students.
March 14, 2011
Sports
Graduation Rates Increasing Among 2011 March Madness Schools
Graduation rates among male basketball players at the 2011 March Madness tournament schools are on the rise, according to a report released from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, but gaps still persist among White and Black athletes.
March 14, 2011
Students
Hundreds Mark Institute for Recruitment of Teachers’ 20th Anniversary Milestone
Getting first-hand accounts of recruitment program’s success was easy as dozens of alumni gathered in Andover, Mass., to celebrate the IRT’s 20-year anniversary.
March 14, 2011
Sports
Charles Barkley Plans to Get Academic as NCAA Analyst
The brash Hall of Famer plans to lobby for better graduation rates in his new job as a college basketball commentator.
March 13, 2011
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