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Conference Highlights Successful Schools

When Ricardo Esparza became principal of Granger High School in South Central Washington state nine years ago, he walked into an environment where gangs roamed the halls, fights were common and academic performance was less than impressive.

Authorities arrest 75 students in drug bust at San Diego University

Authorities arrested 96 people, most of them students, as part of an undercover drug investigation at San Diego State University that began after a student’s fatal cocaine overdose last spring, authorities said Tuesday.

Experts Say Suicide, Not Homicide Is a Larger Threat to Nation’s College Campuses

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Northern Illinois University shootings have garnered much media attention, but suicide is a larger threat to the nation’s college students, said a panel at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington.

Former Admissions Official Leads Fight Against Affirmative Action in Missouri

Tim Asher sat calmly and appeared unfazed moments before he was to address a roomful of Hispanic leaders, some of whom were likely to be hostile to his message that Missouri should end affirmative action programs based on race and gender.

Remedying the Black Male “Crisis”

With high dropout, unemployment and incarceration rates, more than 50 organizations convene to develop action plans to address a disturbing trend.

A FUNDRAISING BLUEPRINT

Howard University sets the bar high for its largest ever capital campaign, and now plans to share the secrets of its success with fellow HBCUs.

ON THE LOSING END

From the subprime mortgage crisis to the subsequent credit crunch, minorities are feeling the heat.

Idaho Hispanic Students Scoring Below Classmates

Hispanic students continue to score below their non-Latino counterparts on statewide tests, prompting education initiatives to improve scores and slow a high school dropout rate that is higher than any other ethnic group in Idaho.

When I Grow Up, I Want to … Pay Off Student Loans

Sharde Jennings dreams of being a lawyer, but the $65,000 in student loans she acquired to complete her bachelor’s degree has her contemplating teaching or any job that has a loan-forgiveness program.

Probe Over Whether Students’ Voting Rights Violated Still Ongoing

Some students at a historically Black university are wondering why an investigation by the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into alleged voting rights violations is still not finished.

In Changing Economy, Graduate School Becoming a Necessity

Access to graduate education is an invaluable resource for this generation of Americans. For the “public good” of the nation, the U.S. government must allocate more in the way of financial support and public policy to ensure that students have access to and experience success in some form of graduate studies, a new study reports.

New Report Highlights Schools That Make Minority Student Success a Priority

The causes of poor college graduation rates among low-income, first-generation and minority students have pervaded the pages of academic publication for years, while the instances in which African-American students have outperformed their White counterparts in the same area have gone largely undocumented.

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