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California State University Expected to Turn Away Up to 15,000 Students Next Year

California State University Expected to Turn Away Up to 15,000 Students Next YearLONG BEACH, Calif.California State University expects to turn away up to 15,000 new students next year as it faces record enrollment growth and a statewide budget deficit, the chancellor said last month.Chancellor Charles B. Reed told trustees the 23-campus system would follow a […]

Report, Educators Call for More Study Abroad Programs

Report, Educators Call for More Study Abroad Programs Lack of global knowledge threatens the nation’s security, future, experts sayWASHINGTONAmericans don’t know enough about the world in which they live, according to a new report by an international-education task force, which calls for a “national effort” to reverse the trend. The report says higher education is […]

ETS Identifies Factors Affecting Student Achievement

ETS Identifies Factors Affecting Student AchievementThe Educational Testing Service (ETS) released a report last month detailing more than a dozen factors related to student achievement. “The gaps in student achievement mirror inequalities in those aspects of school, early life and home circumstances that research has linked to achievement,” says Paul Barton, author of the study, […]

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant Program

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant ProgramHouse Republicans introduced a bill last month to reduce fraud in the Pell Grant program, a move they say could free up as much as $340 million for the higher education program.The lawmakers say they would use the additional funds to provide the grants to more […]

Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student press

Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student pressBy Lydia LumHAMPTON, Va.Hampton University’s confiscation of student newspapers earlier this semester is a reminder of the long-standing problems of maintaining a free press at Black colleges and building strong journalism programs there. In fact, some media professionals have grown so skeptical of the integrity of […]

From Political Speak to Free Speech

Editor’s NoteFrom Political Speak to Free SpeechWith the presidential primaries around the corner, we’re taking a look at what the nine Democratic candidates as well as the Republican Party are doing to connect with Black voters. Similar to visits to Black churches on Sunday mornings, some of the Democratic candidates have taken to visiting a […]

Another Legacy to Overcome

Another Legacy to Overcome: Achieving a Diverse Administrative BodyDr. Deneese L. JonesToday, with race-conscious scholarships under scrutiny, affirmative action being tested, and efforts to achieve student and faculty diversity in higher education under siege, yet another theme of urgency emerges: Faculty of color are still not evenly distributed or represented across institutional types, disciplines and […]

Demystifying the Ph.D. Process

Demystifying the Ph.D. ProcessJourney to the Ph.D.: How to Navigate the Process as African Americans By Dr. Anna L. Green and Dr. LeKita V. Scott, eds. Stylus Publishing, October 2003, 240 pp.$45.00 cloth, ISBN 1-57922-078-9; $18.95 paper, ISBN 1-57922-079-7 As increasing numbers of African Americans enroll in and complete doctoral programs, the need for accurate, […]

Hewlett Packard Gift Boosts Black Public Colleges

Hewlett Packard Gift Boosts Black Public CollegesNEW YORKIn an effort to boost information technology resources at historically Black public colleges, the Hewlett Packard (HP) company has awarded the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and its 45-member schools equipment and services valued at more than $2.1 million. The donation of HP ProLiant servers, notebook PCs, and other […]

Gates Foundation Releases Study of Higher Education Scholarship Program

Gates Foundation Releases Study of Higher Education Scholarship ProgramWASHINGTONThe Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) program since 1999 has offered more than 7,000 minority students “last dollar” scholarship awards for undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. programs. The program recently released a study that profiled current and past participants’ success as a result of the scholarships.The attitudes and expectations […]

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach Efforts

Federal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsAs Mark Spencer sees it, students at the University of California-Berkeley have had too little guidance and resources to help them join community organizations in the San Francisco Bay area that are involved in environmental education and restoration projects. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Ecology at Berkeley’s College […]

Reports: Importance of Federal Student Aid Continues to Grow

Reports: Importance of Federal Student Aid Continues to GrowWASHINGTONTwo newly released reports from the American Council on Education (ACE) illustrate rapid growth in the federal student loan programs and the critical importance of the Pell Grant program, the nation’s largest single source of need-based grant assistance. The “2003 Status Report on the Federal Education Loan […]

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