Ronald RoachStudentsHigher Education Associations Launch National Student Voting CampaignIn an effort that builds upon the enthusiastic participation of young voters during the recent presidential primary season, a coalition of higher education associations have launched the National Campus Voter Registration Project (NCVP), a nationwide nonpartisan campaign to register, educate and motivate college students to vote in the national election this November.June 18, 2008HomeGetting to Know Jamie MerisotisAmong the nation’s most influential foundations, the Indianapolis- based Lumina Foundation for Education has established itself as a leading supporter of higher education access programs and research. Seeking to make the foundation more active in shaping public policy, Lumina officials last year turned to Jamie Merisotis, a veteran policy and research organization leader, to lead […]June 11, 2008STEMAdvocate of Business Education for Minorities Extends Reach to EngineeringOne of the nation’s best known minority-focused business education outreach programs is leveraging nearly three decades of experience to launch two summer institutes to lure talented high school students into engineering careers.June 1, 2008STEMLouis Stokes Institute To Focus on STEM EducationThe legacy of former U.S. Congressman Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, to help disadvantaged and minority students gain academic opportunities lives on in numerous federal government-funded science and engineering education activities and programs.May 21, 2008African-AmericanBaker’s HeatMoving beyond the scope of the literary scholarship for which he is known, Dr. Houston A. Baker Jr., in his latest book, takes a fierce stand as a social critic and assesses several Black scholars and the writings that have won them recognition as public intellectuals.May 14, 2008HomeLiterary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow WorksIn his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, Dr. Houston A. Baker Jr., a leading scholar in African-American and American literature, takes a number of well-known Black intellectuals to task for published works that he deems as either lacking in substance or ideologically detrimental to Black American interests.May 13, 2008African-AmericanLiterary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow WorksDiverse: What led you as a literary scholar to write Betrayal? HB: The motivation was, as interesting as it may seem now more than 20 years down the line, the culture wars that were launched by neoconservatives and the think tanks that support their point of view in the United States back in the late […]May 13, 2008StudentsVa. Expands Program to Improve Diversity Among Community College FacultyThe 23-school Virginia community college system has announced an expansion of its Chancellor’s Graduate Student Fellowship program to enhance the initiative’s capacity to increase faculty diversity.May 12, 2008Community CollegesThe BABY BOOM ECHOCollege demographics shift will test readiness for diversity, institutional savvy.April 30, 2008Leadership & PolicyChallenged D.C. Schools Chief Bringing Reform Story to Academia, National MediaOne of the biggest education stories in the United States in 2007 was the unexpected appointment of education reform leader Michelle Rhee as the chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.April 28, 2008Previous PagePage 31 of 55Next Page
