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UMass-Amherst Journalism Professor Teaches Students To Be Culturally Sensitive

Journalism professors say it’s imperative to sensitize future journalists to racial issues so that they can adequately report on hot-button topics such as this summer’s arrest of Harvard University professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a White police officer.

Innovative Retention Policies Highlighted in New York Meeting

More than 500 college and university officials learn winning student retention strategies at national symposium last week in Buffalo, N.Y.

Monica Michalski

COMMITTED TO CONSERVATION

Despite budget constraints and a backlog of maintenance projects, HBCUs strive to implement green principles on their campuses.

SPECTRUM: FROM DESPAIR TO DISCOVERY

Dr. Raul Cuero was one of 10 children born in abject poverty in Buenaventura, Colombia, to parents who could not read and write. Lacking books, he indulged his curiosity by investigating the creatures around him.

Black College Advocate Questions Funding Formula for Southern University Campuses

While serving as an appointee on a panel examining ways to overhaul Louisiana public college systems, the president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education questioned whether state funding practices are fair to the historically Black schools

Lezli Baskerville

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Developmental Education – An Investment We Cannot Afford NOT To Make

Despite the escalating numbers of students who need developmental work, many critics of developmental education blame the K-12 school system for not preparing students for college-level work.

NOTEWORTHYNEWS: WHEN PERCEPTION BECOMES REALITY

Survey reveals what Mexican-American students expect to achieve does not coincide with their goals.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Will They Come?

Colleges are anxious to see if new recruiting and retention efforts can stem rising tide of â€˜economic dropouts.â€™

AWARDING EXCELLENCE

The Examples of Excelencia, sponsored by Excelencia in Education, is the only national program to identify programs with evidence of effectiveness in accelerating Latino student success at the associate, baccalaureate and graduate levels.

SPECTRUM : A BRIDGE TO THE COMMUNITY

Carolina A. Hernandez arrived at Lehigh University eight years ago to help connect the school with the surrounding neighborhoods, mainly lowincome Spanish-speaking residents.

College Students are Health Care’s Invisible Minority

Close to 5 million students don’t have health insurance, report says.

Developmental Education: An Investment We Cannot Afford NOT To Make

The Kiss of Death? An Alternative View of College Remediation, by Cliff Adelman; No One to Waste, by Bob Mc- Cabe; and Salvage, Redirection, or Custody: Remedial Education in the Community Junior College, by John Roueche — look no further than these titles to sense the commitment and controversy surrounding developmental education.

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