Shilpa BanerjiStudentsMessage To College Papers: Leave Racial Satire AloneRecent parodies of Blacks and Asians in college newspapers in the name of satire have been met with condemnation, including journalism scholars who say free-thinking future journalists need to “grow up and put on their thinking caps.”January 28, 2007HBCUsHBCU Students More Civic Oriented, Says SurveyA new survey says 79 percent of students attending historically Black colleges and universities highly value civic concerns, and more than half (52.7 percent) say “becoming a community leader” is an “essential” or “very important” goal. By comparison, only 35.2 percent of all students held such a view.January 20, 2007HomeAffirmative Action May Suffer Setback, Says Former Brown CounselJack Greenberg, the Alphonse Fletcher Professor of Law at Columbia University and the former co-counsel with Thurgood Marshall on the Brown v. Board of Education case, said Tuesday that reports of the oral arguments in the recent U.S. Supreme Court cases on school desegregation have made him pessimistic, but hopeful that the one or two justices who have the reputation of being inhospitable to integration will vote to uphold the plans.January 16, 2007Leadership & PolicyReport: Employers Say College Graduates Lack Essential Skills to Succeed in Today’s Global EconomyWASHINGTON, D.C. Two-thirds of employers (63 percent) say college graduates lack essential skills to succeed in today’s global economy, according to a new report by the National Leadership Council for Liberal Education and America’s Promise, or LEAP, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities.January 14, 2007StudentsStudents to Congress: Ease the Financial BurdenWASHINGTON, D.C. As the highlight of College Affordability Day of Action, college students used a Capitol Hill news conference on Thursday to call on the U.S. Congress to make college more affordable by cutting student interest rates in half and increasing the maximum Pell Grant award.January 11, 2007HomeHistorians Question Record of Tuskegee AirmenTwo historians are disputing the claim that America’s first Black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy…January 10, 2007StudentsReport: Low-income Students Misinformed About Costs And Benefits of Private LoansLow-income undergraduate students are among the least informed about the financial aid process…January 10, 2007Faculty & StaffMIT Professor Threatens Hunger Strike Over Tenure DenialA Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has threatened to go on a hunger strike outside the provost’s office on February 5, 2007, if he is not granted tenure.December 21, 2006HomeTuskegee Airmen Record Questioned by HistoriansMONTGOMERY, Ala. Two historians are disputing the claim that America’s first elite Black fighter pilots never lost a bomber to enemy fire during World War II.December 17, 2006StudentsReport: Low-income Students Misinformed About Costs and Benefits of Private LoansWASHINGTON, D.C. As incoming college students continue to borrow from private lenders to combat rising tuition costs, low-income undergraduate students are among the least informed about the financial aid process, according to a new report released today (Friday) by the Institute for Higher Education Policy.December 14, 2006Previous PagePage 5 of 13Next Page