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Tuskegee University Launching Ambitious Capital Campaign
Tuskegee University, a historically Black private university in Tuskegee, Alabama, has announced that it is launching the largest capital campaigns in its 130-year history.
November 8, 2011
Home
Poet-Professor Files Federal Charge Against Cleveland State University
With her employment discrimination case against Cleveland State University heading to trial to begin in a Columbus, Ohio, courtroom this week, Nuala M. Archer has opened a federal legal front, according to documents obtained exclusively by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
November 8, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Report: Leadership of Football Bowl Subdivision Programs Showing Slow Progress on Diversity
The latest TIDES report shows that head coaches of color are at an all-time high since the start of the 2011 college football season, but other leadership positions lag far behind.
November 8, 2011
African-American
Black Classic Deal Is Off
Black Classic Press, one of DiverseBooks.net’s member publishers, said it has cancelled plans to acquire the Howard University Press backlist.
November 7, 2011
Community Colleges
College Professors Host Classes in Occupy Seattle
In Seattle, the teacher’s union for the city’s community colleges supports Occupy protesters and quickly organized classes at Seattle Central Community College.
November 7, 2011
Students
Lumina Foundation Launches Latino College Completion Initiative
The Lumina Foundation is giving organizations and colleges that are building a pipeline of Latino students and promoting college completion a boost with a four-year, $600,000 grant for each institution.
November 7, 2011
African-American
Rev. Jesse Jackson Honored at Georgetown University
Activists, scholars and supporters who paid tribute to the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Monday applauded the idea that the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and Jackson’s run for the presidency in 1984 paved the way for President Barack Obama’s historic candidacies in 2004 and 2008.
November 7, 2011
Opinion
The ‘Big Game’ on Saturday That Universities Overlook
There’s a “Big Game” this Saturday that won’t take place on a football field or be televised on national media. This Big Game involves universities nationwide, but it deals not with athletics but academics—teacher licensure to be precise. On Saturday, thousands of students across the country who want to become teachers will sit to take […]
November 6, 2011
Students
Analysis: Is Student-loan-driven Education Bubble Next?
Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can never go bad?
November 6, 2011
Latinx
Professor Honored for His Work in Unearthing Treasures From Spain’s Golden Age
Dr. Ralph DiFranco excavates libraries and literary collections in the U.S. and abroad, digging for forgotten poetry and ballads from Spain’s Golden Age.
November 6, 2011
Home
ETS Conference on Achievement Focuses on School Funding
The Educational Testing Service conference “Advancing Equity: Removing Roadblocks to Achieving High Academic Standards” brought together 140 officials to discuss ways “to achieve educational excellence for all students.”
November 6, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Study: Proposed University of Wyoming Admission Standards Tough on Minorities
Minority students would have a tougher time being automatically accepted to the University of Wyoming than White students under proposed admission standards, a university study says.
November 3, 2011
Students
Student Debt on the Rise Again
Two of every three college seniors graduated with loan debt in 2010, with the typical borrower owing $25,250 and students at some historically Black institutions facing higher repayments, new research shows.
November 3, 2011
Faculty & Staff
College Prep Summer Programs Target Talented, Low-Income Students
Elite colleges team up to give talented yet impoverished youths the skills necessary to apply, gain admission and thrive at the nation’s most selective higher education institutions.
November 3, 2011
Opinion
Transgender Identity and Higher Education Discrimination
This summer, Domaine Javier received an abruptly disheartening expulsion notice from California Baptist University (CBU).  The private “Christian” university in Riverside informed the transgender 24-year-old woman from the Philippines that she was expelled for “committing or attempting to engage in fraud, or concealing identity” in university judicial processes, according to The Riverside Press-Enterprise.  She never […]
November 2, 2011
Disabilties
Tennessee Educators Seek to Improve College Completion
Tennessee’s higher education leaders are strategizing about how to help more students finish college.
November 2, 2011
Students
Congressman Bobby Rush Compares NCAA to Mafia
The Democratic congressman from Chicago compared the NCAA to the Mafia over how it controls the lives of student athletes.
November 2, 2011
Leadership & Policy
An Appreciation: Arthur Johnson
Community and higher education leaders in Detroit credit Arthur Johnson with helping them see their community – Motor City – in broader, positive ways.
November 2, 2011
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