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19 Public University Systems Commit To Closing Achievement Gap

African-American college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate – Hispanic students are nearly worse at less than a third – than white students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of economically more advantaged students. Now, nineteen public higher education systems across the country have banded together to try to reverse these trends.

Faculty & Staff

Study: Minority Faculty Severely Underrepresented in Top 100 STEM Departments

U.S. policymakers need to step in with policies that help boost the number of tenured and tenure-track minority faculty members in science and engineering fields, if the United States is to remain competitive on global scale in these areas, argued a group of minority scholars at a press conference on Capital Hill.

Faculty & Staff

Budget Gives UW Campuses Money to Add Students, Researchers

MADISON Wis. The University of Wisconsin System is about to get bigger.

Mississippi State University to Begin Testing Two-tone Emergency Siren System

STARKVILLE Miss. Mississippi State University will begin testing on Nov. 6 a new siren system that will distinguish between drills and a real emergency.

Faculty & Staff

University of Tennessee Faculty Demands Computer System Improvements

KNOXVILLE Tenn. University of Tennessee professors, frustrated by e-mail outages and Internet security concerns, are demanding improvements in the university’s computer system.

University Fee Policy Set For Revamp, But Not Everyone’s on Board

PORTLAND, Ore. The University of Oregon and Eastern Oregon University have an “energy surcharge.” Portland State’s got a “student services” fee. And every university in the state tacks on a little extra for the privilege of using the school’s computer system.

Prioritizing Education Over the Penal System

Some scholars argue that the United States needs to shift investments to break the cradle-to-prison pipeline for Black males.

Community Colleges

Virginia Community College System Officials Take Issue With College Board Report

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia higher education officials are taking issue with a national report that cites the costs of attending college.

Community Colleges

Virginia Community College System Officials Take Issue With College Board Report

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia higher education officials are taking issue with a national report that cites the costs of attending college.

NJ to Begin Building Stem Cell Research Facility

TRENTON N.J. New Jersey on Tuesday will mark the start of construction on what is being hailed as a world-class stem cell research facility paid for with public money.

Regents Urge Action From Task Force Studying Alert Systems

RAPID CITY S.D. Action is needed sooner rather than later, the Board of Regents has told a task force formed to find ways public universities can improve their emergency alert systems to quickly get information to students.

Regents Urge Action From Task Force Studying Alert Systems

BATON ROUGE La. Six months after 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus were murdered by a gunman, LSU and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are struggling to sign students up for cell phone emergency text messaging systems.

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