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Of a Black President, White Children, and Maintaining the Status Quo

Last week proved quite revealing. It began with the conservative hysteria surrounding President Obama’s education speech to the children of America, and it culminated with the extreme right wing 9/12 Tea Party March on Washington this weekend, billed as a gathering of “freedom loving patriots.” And just when you thought things couldn’t get any more outrageous, […]

September 13, 2009

Enrolling vs. Serving Latino Students

The Obama administration has articulated a goal to return to the top of the international rankings for degree completion by 2020. Due to Latinos’ youth and projected growth, the U.S. cannot reach its goals for international rankings without a tactical plan that includes Latino students. To reach this goal, higher education will have to do […]

September 13, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Survey Shows More Diversity and Higher Graduation Rates at Public HBCUs

Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities have grown and expanded in the last 20 years, making their students and faculty among the most intellectually and racially diverse in higher education, according to a survey released Monday.

September 13, 2009

Faculty & Staff

School Book Ban Raises Censorship Concerns in Puerto Rico

Several university professors in Puerto Rico are protesting a decision to ban five books from the curriculum at public high schools in the U.S. territory because of coarse language.

September 13, 2009

Community Colleges

Students Burn Midnight Oil at Boston Community College

Community college professor Kathleen O’Neill was setting the ground rules for her psychology students when she came to an issue she didn’t normally have to address.

September 13, 2009

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Faculty & Staff

Michigan Profs Back in Class after Tentative Deal

Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.

September 10, 2009

Howard President Responds to Students’ Demands

In an effort to address the student demands raised during the Sept. 4 protest , President Sidney A. Ribeau and Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer Alvin Thornton sat down with The Hilltop to go through each presented demand.

September 10, 2009

Pupils don’t aim high enough for college

Four years ago, two of the most influential researchers in higher education dove into a huge pool of data hoping to answer a bedeviling question: Why do so many students who start college fail to graduate?

September 10, 2009

Survey: Americans say Muslims face ‘a lot’ of bias

Americans are learning more about Islam, and familiarity with the faith makes people more likely to view Muslims favorably and less likely to believe Islam encourages violence, according to a new study.

September 9, 2009

The Coca-Cola Company Gives $7.2 Million to Atlanta University Center

Spelman College, Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University will receive millions from the Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola made the announcement Tuesday. According to Reuters, Spelman will receive $1.2 million, Morehouse and Clark Atlanta will receive $6 million. This support will assist students at these Atlanta-based historically black colleges and universities with scholarship funds where economic hardship […]

September 8, 2009

Washington Ranked Fourth-Best Area for Attending College in New Report

Washington, D.C. was ranked as the country’s fourth-best metropolitan area for attending college according to the new 2009-10 College Destinations Index released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research. According to The Washington Post, The report groups cities by size. The D.C. region, ranked among metropolitan areas with at least 2.5 million residents, tops […]

September 8, 2009

UGA Student Abducted, Assaulted

University officials at the University of Georgia are encouraging students to be safe after a student was abducted and assaulted. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Police say the 20-year-old Athens, Ga., woman was kidnapped at about 1:30 a.m. Friday after taking a ride from a man she believed was a taxi driver, according to […]

September 8, 2009

Obama Back to School Speech Reveals Racial Fears

Sesame Street and President Barack Obama have two things in common when it comes to managing public discourse.

September 8, 2009

Best & Brightest: The War Vet, Financial Aid Activist and Ivy League Student

For John Around Him, the idea of attending Dartmouth College was more than impossible.

September 8, 2009

What Educators Can Learn from President Obama’s Back to School Speech

We now know that President Obama’s recent speech to America’s youngest citizens was not, as some feared, a 4-page/18-minute ideological conversion into “socialism.” In the words of comedian Steve Harvey, “Now that we done got that out the way,” we can turn to a bit more productive and realistic dialogue including what educators at all […]

September 7, 2009

Howard, Va. Tech Join U.S. Intelligence Program

Howard University and Virginia Tech have joined 19 other colleges and universities in developing national security studies that support critical skills needed by intelligence agencies. According to The Washington Post, the $2.5 million academic program, which is funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is designed to teach undergraduates skills that the […]

September 7, 2009

Faculty & Staff

OU Cancels Classes Today; Will Ask Court to Order Professors to Work

Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., will cancel classes again today. The university plans to head to court to ask a judge to order professors back to work. According to the Detroit Free Press, the faculty and the university disagree over several points, including increasing medical insurance rates, pay raises, hiring more instructors on contract and […]

September 7, 2009

Students Borrow More Than Ever for College

Nowadays students are borrowing more to pay for college. According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, this is becoming an increasing trend. The total amount borrowed by students and received by schools in the 2008-09 academic year grew about 25 percent over the previous year to $75.1 billion. A growing body of research suggests […]

September 7, 2009