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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 […]

UNC Initiative to Make College More Accessible for Low-Income Students

UNC Initiative to Make College More Accessible for Low-Income Students CHAPEL HILL, N.C.The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a groundbreaking initiative earlier this month to give the children of low-income families an opportunity to attend college — without borrowing a penny.The initiative, “The Carolina Covenant,” will enable low-income students to come to […]

Commitment at the Highest Levels

Commitment at the Highest Levels”Bringing more than skin color to the party” pretty much sums up our cover story on recruiting faculty of color. One new faculty hire from Rochester Institute of Technology says minority faculty have to do just that and must “bring ways to contribute to the strategic direction of the university and […]

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

Grants & Awards

Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules QUINCY, Calif.California community colleges and their faculty are not responsible for injuries to students who are engaged in off-campus assignments, a state appellate court has unanimously held.The decision bars a suit by a Feather River Community College student who suffered crippling injuries when she was thrown […]

Duke Students Hold Rally to Denounce Racism

Duke Students Hold Rally to Denounce Racism DURHAM, N.C.Students, professors and administrators at Duke University held a rally against racism last month after a fraternity sponsored a party that Latino students say demeaned their heritage.Fraternity members from Sigma Chi designed fliers that looked like expired green cards, on the chapter’s Web site and built the […]

When Academia Meets Activism

When Academia Meets ActivismHarvard’s Color Lines conference draws nearly 1,000 participants to share new insights, data on the nation’s agenda on raceBy Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Labor Day weekend is not the time of year one would expect hundreds of professors, graduate students and other education professionals to be encamped under a white tent at the Harvard […]

Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow

Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]

Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama

Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala.A Black student at the University of Alabama accepted a bid to a traditionally White sorority last month, a rare case in which the longstanding racial exclusivity of the campus Greek social system has been broken.Carla Ferguson, a freshman from Tuscaloosa, was the […]

‘Acting White’ Does Not Affect Minority Student Achievement, Study Finds

‘Acting White’ Does Not Affect Minority Student Achievement, Study Finds COLUMBIA, Mo.Whether listening to heavy metal music or wearing khakis, many minority students in schools throughout the United States are accused of “acting White.” If these accusations lead students to avoid “acting White” by shunning academic achievement, educators see a major problem. A researcher at […]

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