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African-American
‘12 Years a Slave’ Shows Real Value of Ethnic History
This isn’t a movie that beats around the bush with style or euphemism.
January 19, 2014
African-American
Diverse Conversations: Learning to Lead
When a faculty member is promoted to an administrative position, it can be quite a challenge to master the art of leading.
January 19, 2014
Home
New Study Quantifies Impact of College Ratings
The findings demonstrate the influence of these rankings, which many higher education officials complain are unscientific, overly general, and misleading.
January 19, 2014
Faculty & Staff
HBCUs Need to Seek Leaders from Nontraditional Sources
In this environment of limited educational funds, stable leadership is the key to ensuring the health of any university. However, unsteady leadership acutely impacts historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With the recent departure of Alcorn State University’s former president, M. Christopher Brown, another HBCU has seen a change in leadership. Unfortunately, some of these […]
January 19, 2014
Students
Some Schools Working Through MLK Holiday
While most public colleges and universities will be closed today to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a number will be open for business.
January 19, 2014
Faculty & Staff
In Case You Missed It…
UPenn Professor Overcomes Odds, Uses Community Research to Study HIV Vernon Jordan Tapped to Lead Howard Presidential Search Baraka’s Legacy: Let’s Not Forget Inaugural Black Studies Professor ‘Invisible’ Burmese, Bhutanese Americans Face ‘Alarming’ Dropout Rates
January 16, 2014
HBCUs
Fla. College Graduation Rates Called ‘Unacceptable’
FORT MYERS, Fla.—Graduation rates at some Florida universities are being called unacceptable
January 16, 2014
Students
NC Endowment Offers $10M to Improve College Access
RALEIGH, N.C.—A North Carolina endowment is giving $10 million to improve access to higher education for low-income students in rural North Carolina high schools.
January 16, 2014
African-American
Scholar Works to Combat ‘Academic Fraud’ for Black Males
University of Oklahoma professor and 2014 Emerging Scholar Dr. T. Elon Dancy II focuses on African-American males in educational settings, finding inspiration in his own life journey.
January 16, 2014
Home
Obama Seeks to End “Undermatching”
Hundreds of higher education stakeholders gather for White House College Opportunity Summit to examine the issue of undermatching.
January 16, 2014
Students
New Reports Help Answer Expanding College Opportunity Challenge
The Education Trust organization released a pair of reports highlighting measures institutions can take to boost enrollment and graduation rates of underrepresented minorities and low-income students.
January 16, 2014
Sports
Special Issue: NCAA Convention
In this NCAA sports-focused edition, Diverse tackles head injuries in collegiate sports, specifically football, and how it will it affect the demographics of college football in the next decade or two.
January 15, 2014
Students
LSU’s Graduation Rate at All-Time High
BATON ROUGE, La.—For the third year in a row LSU has notched an all-time high graduation rate, with 69.1 percent of students walking away from the university with a degree in hand—the highest graduation rate out of all public universities in the state.
January 15, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Miss. Universities Seek $20M to Fund Aid Formula
JACKSON, Miss.—The board that oversees state-run universities in Mississippi says it needs more money to complete the transition to a new formula for dispensing funds to the state’s eight public universities.
January 15, 2014
Community Colleges
Obama Announces Manufacturing Institute at North Carolina State
President Obama revealed Wednesday that North Carolina State University will be the first university to have a manufacturing hub that will help create jobs.
January 15, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Former ASU Doctoral Student Sexual Harassment Case Moves Forward
Former doctoral student Tasha Kunzi’s sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation case against Arizona State University can move forward, a federal judge has ruled.
January 15, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Scholar Poised to Introduce Intersection Between Race, Modern English
2014 Emerging Scholar Dr. Dennis Austin Britton is bringing the “theological account of race and racialization in early modern England” to a wider audience.
January 15, 2014
HBCUs
Alabama State Bans President from Campus Cohabitation
An Alabama university has barred its incoming president from living in her required campus home with any romantic interest as long as she remains unmarried.
January 15, 2014
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