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Education, Treasury Secretaries Highlight College Tax Credit in D.C. Student Meeting

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan teamed up with U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to host a lunchtime town hall-style meeting on Thursday with seniors from the Washington, D.C.-based Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.

January 20, 2011

Adrift but Not Entirely Off Course

The New Year has seen an urgent call for accountability in higher education with the much anticipated release of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning in Higher Education, written by sociologists Richard Arum of New York University and the Social Science Research Council and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia. The book, released Tuesday and drawing […]

January 19, 2011

North Carolina A&T Fires Official Over Sickle Cell Death

North Carolina A&T State University fired an athletics official and suspended a second after learning coaches were urged against testing potential athletes for the sickle cell trait two days before one died during a tryout.

January 19, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Psychologist Champions Cultural Competence in Mental Health Field, Academic Administration

As Dr. Stanley Sue planned for retirement from the University of California, Davis, this past summer, he realized he still wanted to work on projects of passion.

January 19, 2011

During Howard University Visit, Michelle Obama Urges Students To Study Abroad

With Chinese leader Hu Jintao visiting Washington this week, First Lady Michelle Obama dropped by Howard University where she urged students to study abroad and help strengthen the U.S. presence in the global community.

January 19, 2011

African-American

Court Upholds UT-Austin Admissions Standards

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the University of Texas at Austin can consider race and ethnicity in its admissions standards.

January 18, 2011

Two UNC Schools Help Their Bands Meet Rose Parade Costs

The two public universities whose marching bands performed in the Tournament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day relied on alternative resources to take care of what donations couldn’t cover.

January 18, 2011

Leadership & Policy

S.C. Governor Haley Says College Funding Needs Revamping

Gov. Nikki Haley said Tuesday that South Carolina’s public colleges should be judged on their graduation rates, how many of their students come from outside the state, and their contributions to the economy.

January 18, 2011

African-American

Scholar Deciphers Census Data, Political Climate After Reapportionment

As the Census Bureau cranks out more official results this winter from the 2010 decennial census, political scientist Robert A. Holmes will be poring over the data to see what it portends for Blacks and other minorities and how they can use it to sustain political momentum in this decade.

January 18, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Victims of Alabama-Huntsville Faculty Shooting Sue Over Killings

Relatives of two professors shot and killed during a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville last year filed a lawsuit Friday claiming school administrators’ failure to follow safety rules contributed to the mass slaying.

January 17, 2011

Dr. Adriel Johnson (far left) was one of three professors who died in a Feb. 12 shooting at a University of Alabama Huntsville biology department faculty meeting

Study: Workplace Diversity Must Include Buy-In From Whites

Organizational efforts to create and maintain an inclusive multicultural environment often face resistance by Whites, says a University of Michigan researcher.

January 17, 2011

Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks

Lack of Emphasis On Reading, Writing Impedes College Student Learning, Study Says

New report from the Social Science Research Council says colleges are failing to enforce the fundamentals.

January 17, 2011

Michelle Asha Cooper

Stanford Names David Shaw as Jim Harbaugh’s Successor

Stanford University has announced that offensive coordinator David Shaw has been promoted to lead the ascendant football program.

January 16, 2011

Martin Luther King Jr. and Love

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.” — Martin Luther King Jr. We often remember Martin Luther King Jr. as someone who urged peace, even gave his life for it. We remember him as someone who marched with others to make vast and unparalleled […]

January 15, 2011

Mississippi Governor: Time To Build Civil Rights Museum

Possible presidential contender Gov. Haley Barbour—under fire recently for comments that critics claim minimized the problems of Mississippi’s civil rights era—said Tuesday night that his state should build a museum dedicated to the movement.

January 13, 2011

Researcher Finds Easy Solution for Test Anxiety

A simple writing exercise can relieve students of test anxiety and may help them get better scores than their less anxious classmates, a new study has found.

January 13, 2011

The Unfinished Race

In a new memoir, Dolores Cross describes how she labored to fix Morris Brown College but acknowledges the failings that led to the regrettable end of an otherwise stellar academic career.

January 13, 2011

African-American

Scholars Take Exception to Palin’s ‘Blood Libel’ Charge

When Sarah Palin accused journalists and pundits of ‘blood libel’ in the wake of the deadly Arizona shootings, she reached deep into one of medieval history’s most sordid chapters to make her point.

January 12, 2011