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Perspectives: The Role of Privilege in Diversity Education

I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office. I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office. My presence as a person who retains several privileged cultural identities working in a diversity education office at an institution of higher education is a fact that seems counter-intuitive to many.

Temple U. Establishes Center to Study, Promote Diversity-Related Issues

The discussion about race and the Philadelphia public school system had already lasted 20 minutes and Temple University students couldn’t stop talking. A forum on the country’s changing demographics hosted by the Philadelphia-based university’s new diversity research center left the students with more to say.

Former Philadelphia Mayor John Street

LASTWORD: The Role of Privilege in Diversity Education

My presence as a person who retains several privileged cultural identities working in a diversity education office at an institution of higher education is a fact that seems counterintuitive to many.

U. of Arkansas Suspends Fraternity Activities

The University of Arkansas has suspended fraternities’ social activities for the rest of the fall semester after a student attending a party at Phi Delta Theta was hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.

HBCUs Get On Board With Direct Lending

Direct Loan-only system won’t pose expensive administrative burdens for private and small public historically Black schools, HBCU association leaders say.

Lezli Baskerville

Study Abroad? College Students Drop, Rethink Plans

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students’ interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

Study Abroad Programs Seek More Diversity

Study Identifies Factors Behind Successful Community College Transfers

Researchers focused on six Texas community colleges with large proportions of socioeconomically disadvantaged students explain in newly released report why higher-than-predicted transfer rates were accomplished.

Dr. Chandra Taylor Smith

Revisiting Higher Ed Accountability in the Obama Era

Panelists at a Washington think tank conference on higher education accountability questioned standards in financial management, accreditation, and the professoriate while addressing fundamental questions about the role and responsibility of U.S. higher education.

As N.C. Families Struggle, College Aid Panel Meets

After N.C. lawmakers shuffled around financial aid programs around to help balance the state budget this year, a legislative commission meets this week to recommend reforms to the state’s financial aid system

N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue (right)

College Students Find Support in Campus ‘Posses’

The Posse Foundation, founded by Deborah Bial, targets students in disadvantaged urban school districts who have strong leadership skills and helps keeps them in college by supporting their psychological and academic needs.

Study Abroad Participation Up, Except Among Minority Students

Despite targeted outreach and the availability of financial aid, minority-student study abroad participation declined for several groups, according to the new Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Removing Boundaries and Increasing Student Engagement through Virtual World Platforms

IS THE BURGEONING USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION TO BE FEARED, GUARDED, OR embraced?

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