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Uncertain Hoop Dreams for Indiana Prep Standout

A poor academic foundation clouds the college picture for Roosevelt Career and Technical High School basketball star Rondell Gardner.

March 1, 2012

Rondell Gardner

Top 25 Women in Higher Education and Beyond

Leading the Way, Women Making a Difference Many of us here at Diverse have been privileged to meet dynamic women in the world of higher education and beyond. They lead some of the most demanding and consequential organizations and programs on the planet. No longer sitting on the decision-making sidelines, they have shattered the glass […]

March 1, 2012

Johns Hopkins Launches Study of Genetic Drivers of Asthma in Blacks

An international team of scientists is undertaking a groundbreaking, $9.5 million study of the genetic coding of Black asthmatics, a group that constitutes a fifth of all Blacks in the United States.

February 29, 2012

Kathleen Barnes

In New Book, Anita Hill Explores Pursuit of American Dream

In Reimagining Equality: Gender, Race, and the American Dream, the law and social policy professor uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze issues of race, gender, class and access to the American dream.

February 29, 2012

NHL, Thurgood Marshall Fund Announce Hockey Scholarships

The National Hockey League and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund have teamed up to offer new scholarships that will put an emphasis on targeting hockey-playing youths heading to public HBCUs.

February 29, 2012

Collaboration among Colleges, Universities Urged as a Minority STEM Strategy

New report details how higher education leaders can implement programs that should increase minority participation in STEM fields without running afoul of the law.

February 28, 2012

African-American

Julianne Malveaux To Step Down as Bennett College President in May

President of Bennett College since 2007, Malveaux announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as the school’s chief executive on May 6.

February 28, 2012

Julianne Malveaux

African-American

Public University Association, NASA Host Minority Male STEM Symposium

Experts on Tuesday say success of higher education STEM programs targeting minority men may depend heavily on enhancing the promise of financial success in STEM employment.

February 28, 2012

How to Excel at Elite Institutions: A Guide for Students of Color

Note: This post was co-authored by Ufuoma Abiola, a graduate student in the Higher Education program at the University of Pennsylvania. Elite research institutions with myriad resources can be wonderful places to gain an education; they also can be daunting for a student unfamiliar with the surroundings. We offer the following strategies for student success. […]

February 27, 2012

African-American

Commentary: Why Diversity Still Matters

If the Supreme Court bars the use of race in college admissions decisions, it threatens years of work by civil rights activists who fought to make campuses more integrated, diverse and just, a think tank analyst writes.

February 27, 2012

Study: Pell Grant Makes Difference for Students of Color

African American and Hispanic students who receive a federal Pell Grant are more likely to finish college and pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors, says a new report that argues for a renewed commitment to the grant program.

February 27, 2012

Dr. Lamont Flowers

Xavier University is First HBCU to Land a Confucius Institute

When officials at Xavier University of Louisiana secured the support they needed to start a Confucius Institute on campus, it helped the university become the first HBCU to land the program meant to promote Chinese language and culture.

February 27, 2012

Confucius Institute

‘The Help’: Let Them Eat Pie

My mother and I swore that we would never watch the “blockbuster” movie sensation “The Help.” My reasoning, quite frankly, had to do with my own rejection of yet another movie that portrays Blacks as a deficit, culturally “capital-less” group that needs to be “empowered,” saved, and are rescued by the “kind,” “smart,” and “important.” […]

February 26, 2012

African-American

FAMU Research Initiative to Focus on Hazing

Florida A&M University, in stepping up its efforts to demonstrate its seriousness about quelling hazing on campus over the long term, has established a $50,000 research fund for FAMU faculty to “study the nature and extent of hazing behaviors among campus organizations and groups.”

February 26, 2012

Commentary: The Fallacy of Race Neutrality in Affirmative Action’s Dialectic

In reviewing the language used in the Texas affirmative action case and really the whole argument over affirmative action’s use over the last decade, there has emerged a false dialectic, pivoting at the axis of the conflict, a history professor contends.

February 26, 2012

Building an Innovation Engine in Detroit

Wayne State University’s TechTown is helping revive Detroit’s hard-hit economy and is relatively new when compared with business incubators dating to the 1980s, such as the ones at Louisiana State University, Ohio University, Rensselaer Polytechnic and the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.

February 26, 2012

Bereft – Whitney Elizabeth Houston, Shared Loss, and Full Circles

I love Whitney Houston. It seems like yesterday when I first heard her spine-tingling rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” I was in Bellevue, Wash., in my little used, red Mazda 626, headed to the old Group Health Credit Union. The year was 1992. As I waited at a stoplight, the song came onto […]

February 25, 2012

The Complex Simplicity of Black Male Success in College

The Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania recently released its inaugural publication. Titled “Black Male Student Success in Higher Education: A Report from the National Black Male College Achievement Study,” researchers, led by the center’s director, Dr. Shaun R. Harper, have attempted to reframe the spirited […]

February 25, 2012