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Dear Educators/Administrators: EVERY Student is a Scholar

I am urging my fellow academicians from this day forth to address all learners in your classrooms, institutions, churches, non-profit organizations, mentor programs in Pre-K-12, undergraduate and graduate studies as “scholars”.

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Century Foundation Releases First Report on Community Colleges

A new report released late last week examines the critical role that community colleges play in social mobility and highlights why adequate and equitable funding are essential.

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Study: A Quarter of College Students Stressed Over 2016 Presidential Election

A new study from San Francisco State University (SFSU) revealed that 25 percent of college students have experienced a significant amount of stress over the 2016 presidential election and related events. Researchers from SFSU distributed a questionnaire to 769 college students taking an introductory psychology course two to three months after the election, according to […]

Celebrations for First-Gen Students Expand in Year Two

The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), in partnership with the Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA and The Suder Foundation, has announced the second annual First-Generation College Celebration.

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UNCF and Nissan North America Create new Program for Fisk & Tennessee State Universities

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has continued its partnership with Nissan North America and announced the creation of a new scholarship program for sophomore and junior students enrolled at Fisk University and Tennessee State University, two historically Black colleges and universities. The new scholarship program, called the Nissan Scholars Program, will donate four $5,000 […]

New UVA President Promises Free Tuition for Students Whose Parents Make Under $80K

James E. Ryan, the new president of The University of Virginia (UVA) pledged to waive tuition for students in families whose combined income is less than $80,000 a year during his inauguration. Currently, in-state tuition at UVA is around $13,700 a year. President Ryan did not say when the promise will be in effect, but […]

USC Center Helps Advance Racial Equity

Five months after a group of students at DePauw University angrily confronted their college president following a string of racially charged incidents on campus, Dr. D. Mark McCoy was sitting in front of his office computer actively processing the incident with Dr. Charles H. F. Davis, who was some 2,000 miles away.

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Coalition Urges Loan Debt Cancellation for Former Corinthian Students

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Rep. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts, Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey, the Debt Collective organization and others on Monday joined the Project on Predatory Student Lending to launch a public awareness campaign urging eligible students of former Corinthian Colleges to apply to have the Department of Education cancel their […]

Prioritizing Diversity in Graduate Education

Issues in diversity and inclusion have swept the nation with many high-profile cases publicly playing out in colleges and universities across the country. While all agree that something must be done to enhance the diversity and equality of our nation’s schools, barriers persist when it comes to deciding on effective tactics and taking concrete actions — talk dominates while action stagnates.

California Community Colleges Declares Undocumented Students Week of Action

The California Community Colleges Board of Governors has announced that Oct. 15-19 will be Undocumented Student Week of Action, encouraging its campuses and surrounding communities to participate in events that support undocumented students and asking Congress to establish a way for the group to obtain citizenship. “It is imperative that the California Community Colleges, the […]

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A Call for Multiculturalism in Higher Education

Higher education is at a crucial juncture. With the advent of a social climate that questions the validity of facts, scientific evidence and critical thinking, higher education has come under attack from a myriad of stakeholders.

California Program Cultivates Minority Physics and Astronomy Ph.D. Students

M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is well into her Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California at Irvine, and she gives credit to participation in Cal-Bridge, a program that helps underrepresented minority students earn doctoral degrees in physics and astronomy.

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