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Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color

If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.

Strayhorn Appointed to Leadership Post at LeMoyne-Owen College

Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, a prominent education researcher and author, has been named interim vice president for academic and student affairs at LeMoyne-Owen College, a private historically Black college in Memphis.

TCUs: Saving Native American Education

Native Americans have the lowest educational attainment of any race. One of the ways in which mainstream institutions are failing them is by simply not addressing the values of Native American students.

Part II: Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Students in Their Journey to Academic Success

Every instructor, teacher and professor was once a student in a classroom. Yes, times have changed significantly, yet the fundamentals of the college experience and the goals for your teaching and student learning remain universal.

Sisters, Other-Mothers and Aunties: The Importance of Informal Mentors for Black Women Graduate Students at Predominantly White Institutions

Mentoring is paramount to the success of Black women pursuing graduate degrees. Unfortunately, mentors at predominantly White institutions who provide formal mentoring for Black women graduate students are few and far between.

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Survey Explores College Students’ Beliefs, Activism

Nearly six in 10 college students would protest publicly for a cause they care about, according to a survey conducted over the last three weeks that highlighted college students’ beliefs surrounding political, social and environmental issues.

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New Book Examines How Scholar-Practitioner Advanced Equity in Student Affairs

When some of the nation’s top scholars decided to pen a book examining the life of Dr. Melvin C. Terrell and his contributions to the field of student affairs, Terrell knew that was something special. But then again, the retiree’s life has been nothing short of extraordinary.

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Realizing My Potential Through the Higher Education Opportunity Program

When done correctly, opportunity programs foster a sense of community on campus where students feel safe to struggle and know that they have the support necessary to overcome the obstacles that come along with being underprepared for college – not by choice, but by circumstance.

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Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Faculty in Student Success

As college professors, we hear it all the time, especially during the end of the semester, when it seems that’s the only time students decide to pay you an office visit. “Can you tell me how I’m doing in your class?”

A Seat at the Table for KIPP Alumni

WASHINGTON – The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) centered students who are alumni of the charter school network at the forefront of a conversation this week about what it takes to get to and through college during a panel on Capitol Hill.

Study: Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree and Latino adults are only half as likely – with both groups attaining degrees at a lower rate in 2016 than White adults did back in 1990, according to a new report by The Education Trust.

Napolitano Discusses First-Gen Students and College Affordability at Convening

DENVER – Colleges and universities across the nation should implement a wide range of wrap-around services for first-generation students, said Janet Napolitano, who leads the University of California, one of the largest public university systems in the country.

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