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$100 Million Program to Aid Low-Income Students and Schools

$100 Million Program to Aid Low-Income Students and SchoolsSeattleThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is creating the biggest private scholarship program in Washington state with a $100 million gift to help low-income students go to college. The Washington State Achievers Program will give 500 four-year scholarships a year for colleges and universities in Washington, the […]

Women’s Colleges Receive High Marks for Learning Effectiveness But recruiting minority students still a challenge

Women’s Colleges Receive High Marks for Learning Effectiveness But recruiting minority students still a challengeBY Eleanor Lee YatesAmherst, Va.Good news for women’s colleges: A recent national survey of 276 colleges and universities has found that students attending women’s colleges give their schools high marks for learning effectiveness, as well as for providing enriching educational experiences […]

Maryland Awards First Math Doctorates to Black Women

Maryland Awards First Math Doctorates to Black WomenCollege park, Md. For the first time, the University of Maryland awarded doctorate degrees in mathematics to three Black women at its December commencement ceremonies. Tasha Inniss received a degree in applied mathematics, Sherry Scott was awarded one in pure mathematics and Kimberly Weems received one in statistics.“We’ve […]

White House Names Humanities Honorees

White House Names Humanities Honorees Washington President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the 2000 National Humanities Medalists, an award administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. An award ceremony was held last month in Washington and the winners were honored at a White House dinner.“The 2000 National Humanities Medalists are distinguished individuals […]

Six Universities Selected for National High School Journalism Project

Six Universities Selected for National High School Journalism ProjectCollege Park, Md.Six journalism schools have been selected to create and host an intensive two-week high school program designed to increase diversity within the nation’s newsrooms. Diversifying the nation’s newsrooms has been a long-time goal of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Studies show that the number […]

Fraternity Accused of Taping Swastika on Black Student’s Car

Fraternity Accused of Taping Swastika on Black Student’s Car ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A University of New Mexico fraternity accused of duct-taping a swastika on a Black student’s car has been placed on emergency suspension. University administrators say they placed the Sigma Chi chapter on suspension and that the rights, privileges, charter and affiliation with UNM are […]

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of Desegregation

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of DesegregationAthens, Ga.‘Two-four-six-eight! We don’t want to integrate!” were the chants from the crowd that greeted Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes — the first two African American students to integrate the University of Georgia 40 years ago Jan. 9. To mark the 40 years since UGA was desegregated, the […]

Explaining the Achievement Gap

Explaining the Achievement GapResearchers offer theories on Black underachievment — especially Black malesNew York The warm reception accorded Dr. Claude Steele at a New York University School of Education policy breakfast earlier this month signaled the extent to which his social psychology research is finding acceptance among education experts and officials on the Black-White student […]

Michigan State University Takes Initiative

Michigan State University Takes Initiative In Addressing Racial Profiling On CampusEast Lansing, Mich.Bruce Benson, chief of police at Michigan State University, had heard about it on CNN. He read about it in scholarly police journals. And while attending national police conferences he heard the issue constantly analyzed and dissected. Racial profiling, he noticed over the […]

State Policies Greatly Impact Minority Access To Higher Education

State Policies Greatly Impact Minority Access To Higher EducationWashingtonThe state you live in can make an unexpectedly large difference in determining whether you’ll be able to attend college — especially if you’re a minority student in a lower income bracket, according to the the National Center for Public Policy in Higher Education’s Measuring Up 2000 […]

Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning

NSF Gives Grant to Boost Minority Graduate Degree Production

NSF Gives Grant to Boost Minority Graduate Degree ProductionALBUQUERQUE, N.M.A New Mexico alliance is getting a $2.5 million federal grant to increase the number of minority students pursuing advanced degrees in the next five years. The National Science Foundation grant went to the New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, which wants to […]

Iowa Wesleyan Uses Personal Touch to Attract Minority Students

Iowa Wesleyan Uses Personal Touch to Attract Minority Students MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa Iowa Wesleyan College, a private institution in the southeastern part of the state, has attracted a record number of minority students. Despite the college’s location in a small, predominantly White community, nearly 21 percent of the school’s 482 full-time students are minorities this […]

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