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Dr. Wendell Logan: Musical Mentor Remembered

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine was fortunate to profile jazz studies scholar Dr. Wendell Logan weeks before his untimely death on June 15.

Amid Criticism, Tennessee HBCU President Announces Retirement

Citing family and personal reasons, Dr. Melvin N. Johnson announced that he would be stepping down as president of Tennessee State University at the end of the year.

Dr. Melvin N. Johnson announced that he would step down as president of Tennessee State University at the end of the year.

Arizona May End Scholarships for High Achievers

The Arizona Board of Regents is considering ending a popular college scholarship program for high achievers. The AIMS scholarships pay tuition and fees at the state’s three public universities for high school students who perform well on the standardized Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards test.

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Students May See Some Gains Through New Textbook Rules

Rules provide greater transparency on pricing and restrict publishers from bundling books with supplemental materials.

Rules provide greater transparency on pricing and restrict publishers from bundling books with supplemental materials.

SREB Honors 500th Ph.D. Recipient from Doctoral Program

The SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program honored Dr. Betina Cutaia Wilkinson as its 500th doctoral scholar at the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) annual meeting in West Virginia.

Microsoft’s Philly High School Overcame Challenges

Although the School of the Future’s creative ambitions have been frustrated by high principal turnover, curriculum tensions and a student body unfamiliar with laptop computer culture, the Microsoft-designed Philadelphia public high school graduated its first senior class Tuesday with each student having been accepted to an institution of higher learning.

School of the Future students

Study: Majority of Institutions Receive Applications from Undocumented Students

In a survey released today, the National Association of College Admission Counseling reports that 60 percent of surveyed schools indicated that they had received college applications from undocumented students.

Harvard Student Says He Faces Deportation From U.S.

An undocumented Harvard University student is facing deportation to Mexico after being detained by immigration authorities at a Texas airport, the student said last week.

Community College Champion

In an exclusive interview with Diverse, Miami Dade College President Eduardo Padrón discusses community colleges’ pivotal role in revitalizing the U.S. economy.

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Best & Brightest: ‘I Had to Succeed’

No one would fault Jemima Pierre-Jacques if she decided to put off her studies this past spring semester at Prince George’s Community College. The native Haitian was mourning the loss of her father, Jude Pierre-Jacques, and eight other relatives in Port-au-Prince, casualties along with thousands of the 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti in January.

Jemima Pierre-Jacques

College “Student Group” Aided by For-profit Industry

Career College Association, a lobbying group for for-profit schools, provided the organizational muscle to launch the grassroots-sounding Students for Academic Choice at a time when for-profit colleges are under fire.

An Everest College counselor advises a student on career options. Everest College is a system of for-profit colleges in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. (photo courtesy of Everest College)

Why We Need Diverse Books

Many fine examples of general-interest, academic, literary books from the university and small presses are overlooked when it comes time to hand out accolades. Most are never reviewed, which contributes to their invisibility. Writing about them can be a lonely enterprise. It helps if you have eclectic reading habits, a taste for the esoteric and […]

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