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College Financial Aid System Facing Stiff Test

Finding financial aid for college this year promises to be tougher than any final exam.

January 25, 2009

NEA Reports Rise in Reading, Not All Voluntary

“Reading on the rise” declares a new government study, which reports a surprising and welcome increase in the number of adults who recently read a novel, short story, play or other work of literature.

January 25, 2009

Native Americans

Course Gets Teachers Ready for Reservations

The University of Wyoming has developed a new graduate course designed to help educators who are teaching on American Indian reservations.

January 25, 2009

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Juggle Record Enrollments, Budget Cuts

Sociology professor Lorraine Cohen worries more and more students will get shut out of New York City’s LaGuardia Community College if the governor’s proposed budget cut of 10 percent goes through.

January 22, 2009

Study: Obama Mystique Improves Test Scores Among Blacks

During the election season, President Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, sparked a “Yes We Can” frenzy, reassuring African American students that they could make greater academic strides.

January 22, 2009

Inauguration Is Lesson Plan at Obama Elementary

Some schoolchildren stood and recited the oath along with the new president. Others shouted “Amen” at the end of the invocation.

January 22, 2009

Let’s Talk about Race … in the Classroom

I am fortunate to work in a school of education that cares enough to examine itself in terms of its treatment of students of color. That said, I recently sat through a school-wide faculty meeting in which the results of a survey of our students of color were discussed. For anyone who knows the research in […]

January 21, 2009

Leadership & Policy

TSU, Smiley Strike Deal Amid Questions About His $1 Million Pledge

In February 2005, the Tavis Smiley School of Communication officially opened at Texas Southern University in Houston, garnering national fanfare, especially because the ceremony and naming of the school came with a $1 million pledge from its namesake.

January 21, 2009

A Day After He Takes Oath, Immigration Activists Send Message to Obama

Margarito Esquino and his wife, María, lit a small clay pot of medicinal herbs – sage, mira and copal – and, with a handful of eagle feathers, swept the smoke toward the gleaming office building at 500 SW 12th Street.

January 21, 2009

Families Await Sharpest Tuition Increases in Years

Most high school seniors and their families have not made final college plans for next fall. But they know this: It’s probably going to cost more than they had planned.

January 21, 2009

Ivy League ‘Discomfort’ Leads to Black Cuba

In 2002, Robin Hayes was a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University in African American studies and political science. Yet, she wasn’t feeling so Ivy League.

January 21, 2009

Much Work To Be Done

As the country this month celebrates the commencement of the Obama era and annual observance of Martin Luther King’s birthday and legacy, many events conspire to remind us much remains to be done. Nowhere are such reminders more pressing and consequential than in the higher education community.

January 21, 2009

Jefferson, Not Hemings, Inspiration for Top Book Award

It would be easy to assume that a desire to document an enslaved woman’s rightful place in history started Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed down the path that led to her recent triumph as the winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction.

January 21, 2009

Not Your Parents’ Dorm

Students at the University of Chicago now have the option of living in coed dorm rooms without permission from their parents, a policy that marks a sharp departure from the institution’s more traditional campus culture.

January 21, 2009

Diversity Report Card: A+ for UC San Francisco

Nearly one-third of students in last fall’s entering medical school class at the University of California, San Francisco are from an underrepresented minority group, a figure that won the school the title “most improved” in a Greenling Institute report.

January 21, 2009

Community Colleges

Job Training Issues To Get Greater Visibility

Community colleges seek funding and policy changes to job training law to better meet evolving needs of the American work force.

January 21, 2009

BATTLE OF THE WILLS

In Georgia, the budget crunch has prompted one state senator to propose closing some public colleges, but not the ones you think.

January 21, 2009

Leadership & Policy

The New Era of Diversity

Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, weighs in on the prospects for diversity in the Obama years.

January 21, 2009