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Louisiana Educators Turn to Trades to Cut Dropout Rate

A new Louisiana law created a “career diploma” that, in an effort to reduce the dropout rate, will go to students who opt for lower academic standards in math and English, while taking classes such as welding, woodworking and small engine repair.

Chantilly Pyramid Minority Student Achievement Committee Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Fostering academic accomplishment among students of color in a competitive school district, minority student achievement organization in Northern Virginia celebrates landmark anniversary.

Chantilly Pyramid Minority Student Achievement event

Grambling President Makes Abrupt Departure

Citing family member’s illness, Dr. Horace Judson leaves top post at cash-strapped historically Black Louisiana university.

Dr. Horace Judson

Best & Brightest: From Homelessness to Inaugural Fellow

Haiti native Joane Theodule overcame tremendous hardships to finish college and win a graduate school fellowship to Florida A&M University.

Obama Community College Proposal May Not Be Enough

President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020.

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New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), says developing more elementary and secondary school initiatives that help steer under-represented minority students into undergraduate engineering programs will be a high priority during his tenure.

Irving Pressley McPhail

WASHINGTON UPDATE: Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge

Two-year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Hazing Refuses To Go Away

Media influences and brain development cloud studentsâ€™ understanding of hazing, studies say.

Faculty, Students Challenge University of Maryland’s Diversity Plan

A town hall meeting at the University of Maryland on the school’s proposed diversity plan revealed divisions among the invested students, faculty and staff members who critiqued everything in the document from word choice to the exclusion of some groups to the definition of diversity.

Student Body President Steve Glickman

Temple University’s Commitment to Diversity Questioned

When budgetary cuts become necessary at a college, the programs and departments most vulnerable are often the least fundamental to a school’s central mission. But when an institution has been ranked as the most diverse student body in higher education, it can be difficult to explain why an office that caters to multicultural students was downsized dramatically.

Budget cuts to the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Temple University resulted in staffers who mentored and assisted culturally based student organizations being re-assigned to other departments.

Two-Year Colleges Face Student Loan Default Challenge

Rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.

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Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues

During mentoring institute, minority graduate students were told by senior scholars that they will soon inherit responsibility to help lead the push for diversity in American higher education.

Dr. Ansley Abraham

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