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Most Colleges Not Ready To Ask About LGBT Status

Advocates say that, besides being a recruiting tool to help diversify campuses, openly assessing a school’s LGBT population would make colleges more aware of needs such as finding tolerant roommates.

Commentary: Derrick Bell’s ‘Working Faith’ for Academic Justice

When Derrick Bell passed away last week, the academy and the world did not merely lose a prodigious scholar, an exquisite legal mind and a magnetic personality.

NY Police Department Infiltration of Colleges Raises Privacy Fears

Investigators have been infiltrating Muslim student groups at Brooklyn College and other schools in the city, monitoring their Internet activity and placing undercover agents in their ranks, police documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

Texas University Breaking Ties With Community College

University of Texas at Brownsville to part ways with Texas Southmost College, ending unusual 20-year partnership.

‘New Orleans in the Hamptons’ Raises College Scholarship Funds

Foundation fundraiser hosted by Soledad O’Brien and husband Brad Raymond brought movers and shakers together to lend a hand to college students.

U.S.-Mexico Border Journalism Project Continues To Train Hispanics in Writing and Reporting

Borderzine is approaching its fifth anniversary with much to celebrate about its efforts to train aspiring Hispanic journalists using the populations on both sides of the nation’s 2,000-mile border with Mexico as its practical classroom.

Pioneering Law Professor Derrick Bell Dies

Derrick Bell, the first Black professor at Harvard Law School and an uncompromising advocate for social justice, has died at age 80.

Boston Students Protest Spiraling Education Costs

About 200 Northeastern University students gathered on Wednesday to condemn what they called corporate control of government and the spiraling costs of their education.

Keeping Day-to-Day Problems from Derailing College Students

Ugandan immigrant Job Asiimwe was on the verge of becoming one of the surprisingly large number of American college and university students who fail to earn two-year associate degrees within even three years, or four-year bachelor’s degrees within six.

Vermont Law, Long a Holdout, Lifting Military Ban

The policy barring military recruiters dated from the mid-1980s, years before the Clinton administration adopted the policy that became known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 1993.

Arkansas Scholar’s Learning Project Helps Boost Academic Performance of Elementary, Middle School Students

Hendrix College historian and education professor James Jennings launched achievement gap initiative in elementary schools and middle schools in Arkansas’ Mississippi river delta region to narrow learning gap for children living in the state’s poorest counties.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan Unveils Proposal Giving Responsibility to States to Identify Weak Teacher-Preparation Programs

The proposal also calls for using a $185 million state teacher preparation grant to reform the $110 million TEACH grant program.

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