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Michigan Universities Asked To Help Foster Youth With Financial Aid

This June, when foster youth in Michigan graduate from high school and apply for federal higher education funds, they’ll find that money is painfully tight.

Study: Hazing Still a Problem on Campus

Virtually every college bans hazing, but more than half of college students belonging to campus organizations say they have experienced it in places from the glee club to the fraternity house, according to a new study.

NASPA Session Tackles Hazing Problem Among Black Greeks

Black Greek fraternity members feel hazing solidifies their loyalty to their organization and builds “character and discipline,” according to study results presented to a packed session at the 90th annual NASPA, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education conference.

A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum

Spelman President Beverly Daniel Tatum recently spoke with Diverse about Spelman’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the relevance of HBCUs and more.

Tragedy Strikes Two Campuses, Threatens One

An Auburn University student was found shot to death on a highway and the University of North Carolina student body president was found fatally shot on a Chapel Hill, N.C. street. Meanwhile, eight dorms at the University of California, Davis were evacuated Wednesday night and a student was arrested after explosives were found in a dorm room.

UW Professors See Problems With How Math Is Taught

Sixty University of Washington professors have signed a letter to the Legislature saying that many college freshmen can’t solve math problems, even at a middle-school level.

Emergency Notification in an instant

Following the recent campus shootings, universities are seeking the most effective and multifaceted electronic alert systems from a host of IT companies.

Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’

With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.

Expanding the Cultural Reach Of Environmentalism Through Diversity

In the fall of 2005, Yale graduate student Emily Enderle was asking some uncomfortable questions about faculty diversity at the university’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges

Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]

University of Rochester Students Demand More Faculty Diversity

Students at the University of Rochester are demanding that university officials hire more faculty members from underrepresented groups, insisting that the administrators spend less time strategizing about diversity and make it a reality.

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