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Illegal Immigrants Find Aid for College in N.M.
FORT COLLINS Colo. At least 10 undocumented students from Colorado will get to attend classes at the University of New Mexico this fall, with many not having to pay for tuition or books.
July 15, 2007
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Soldier in Iraq Uses Computer, Friends to Stay in College
MIAMI Juan Ramos hunkers down in Army barracks just outside Saddam Hussein’s hometown, hoping insurgent fire doesn’t interrupt his online biology class.
July 15, 2007
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Journalism Scholarship Established in Memory of Mississippi Publisher Tisdale
JACKSON Miss. The Charles Tisdale Memorial Scholarship is being established by the Jackson Association of Black Journalists, the president of the organization announced Friday.
July 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Gordon Gee to be Highest Paid College President in Ohio
AKRON Ohio Incoming Ohio State University president Gordon Gee will take a pay cut when he leaves Vanderbilt University to assume the helm of the nation’s largest university, but his $775,000 salary easily will make him the highest paid college president in the state.
July 15, 2007
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Arkansas Historians Fear State History Will Be Removed From K-12 Curriculum
LITTLE ROCK Many historians, upset with what they expected Saturday would be a watering down of the teaching of Arkansas history in the public schools, will seek a one-year moratorium on new teaching guidelines that are to go into effect this fall.
July 15, 2007
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Remote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and Minds
DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.
July 15, 2007
Disabilties
Grant Prompts Future Special Ed Teachers to Enroll in UNH Training Program
DURHAM N.H. Thanks to several federal grants, New Hampshire soon may be seeing more special education teachers.
July 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Former North Dakota Higher Ed Administrators Remain On Payroll
FARGO N.D. Two North Dakota higher education administrators who resigned last year under fire remained on the payroll through June 30, doing little work but costing taxpayers more than $450,000.
July 15, 2007
HBCUs
IU Vice President Headed to NCCU
BLOOMINGTON Ind. Outgoing Indiana University vice president Charlie Nelms has been appointed chancellor of North Carolina Central University, the nation’s first state-supported liberal arts institution for black students.
July 15, 2007
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Dig Gives Anthropologists, Students a Look Into 1870s Nicodemus
NICODEMUS Kan. Bit by bit sometimes literally a 16-day dig gave amateur anthropologists a look into the 1870s and life in the first post-Civil War settlement founded by and for blacks
July 15, 2007
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The Edge of Heaven – Review
The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden, Doubleday, $22.95,288 pages.
July 15, 2007
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High-Tech Cheating
With dozens of online term paper mills appearing on the Internet, professors and institutions are imposing new strategies to deter students from using them
July 15, 2007
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Blue Light – Review
Blue Light by Walter Mosely, Little, Brown Company, $24.00, 288 pages.
July 15, 2007
HBCUs
The Shape Of 1998
“You’ve got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night.” So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen’s new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.
July 15, 2007
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Parable of the Talents – Review
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler, Group West, $24.95, 400 pages.
July 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Roger Williams Trustee Allegedly Forced Out After Making Slur Against Blacks
BRISTOL R.I. A former trustee at Roger Williams University said the longtime chairman of the board was forced to resign this week after he uttered a racist slur at a May meeting.
July 14, 2007
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Perspectives: Ohio Gov. Focuses on Graduating Black Males, When Will Parents and Mentors Make Similar Commitment?
We must work together to change the “anti-academic” attitude among some of our young men as well as the perceptions within the education community about Black boys’ academic abilities that have kept them mired at the bottom of the education spectrum for too long now.
July 14, 2007
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Black Enterprise-Listed – listing of top 50 colleges for African American students
A new college ranking, designed to help students and their parents evaluate an institution’s academic and social appeal for African Americans, hits newsstands.
July 14, 2007
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