Diverse StaffAfrican-AmericanBlack male university enrollment still lagsMore than a year after the Mississippi College Board launched a fact-finding mission to bolster the number of black males attending and graduating college, no specific recommendations are in hand. According to clarionledger.com, a statewide task force has met a few times since its creation in June 2008, but officials say it could be at […]August 9, 2009HomeU-Detroit Mercy gets $552,000 for fed IT researchThe University of Detroit Mercy says it’s received a $552,000 contract to perform cyber security research on behalf of the U.S. government. According to The Detroit News, the university says the project seeks to develop and disseminate knowledge to ensure the safety and security of U.S. business software. © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comAugust 9, 2009HomeColleges noted for commitment to environmental issues’The Princeton Review released its second annual “green ratings” – a measure of the environmental friendliness of colleges and universities. According to The Olympian, the college-prep company ranked 697 schools on a scale from 60 to 99 based on data provided by the schools, according to a press release. A school’s rankings are based on […]August 9, 2009Community CollegesMany Dallas-Fort Worth graduates struggle in collegeThey passed their TAKS exit exams and collected their high school diplomas – yet a troubling number of Texas students struggle their first year in college. According to the Dallas Morning News, at some North Texas high schools, half or more of graduates who go to college earn less than a C average their first […]August 9, 2009HBCUsWoman with no known relatives donates large sum to universityA homeless woman who lived out of a shopping cart in Manhattan had secretly amassed a small fortune and stunned a university when she left it $100,000 upon her death. According to NBC New York, the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor — who appeared destitute and had no known relatives — bequeathed the large sum to Hebrew […]August 9, 2009HomePanel: Leaders failed U. of I.After an eight-week investigation found that the state’s culture of political dealmaking seeped into the admissions process at the University of Illinois, a state panel called Thursday for resignations and reforms to move the school past the embarrassing scandal. According to the Chicago Tribune, to start, the Illinois Admissions Review Commission urged the university’s trustees […]August 6, 2009HomeIllinois Humanities Council Application Deadline for Free College Course ExtendedThe Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) and The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities is pleased to announce that it has extended the application deadline for The Odyssey Project, a free, eight-month college humanities course for 18 and over adults living at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level. According to the Chicago […]August 6, 2009SportsFerrum College volleyball team earns national academic honorFerrum College’s volleyball team is one of 77 NCAA Division III squads which has received a team academic award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) for 2008-09. According to the Franklin News-Post, this marks the first time that Ferrum has earned the AVCA’s top team academic accolade. © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comAugust 6, 2009HomeInvestigators: University trustees should resignA panel investigating the role that clout played in University of Illinois admissions recommended in its final report released Thursday that all trustees voluntarily submit their resignations and let Gov. Pat Quinn decide which ones to accept. In a scathing 45-page report, the Illinois Admissions Review Commission found unqualified students were admitted because of political […]August 6, 2009Leadership & PolicyUniversity of Iowa cracks down on smokersThe University of Iowa is ticketing smokers who light up on campus. According to the The Des Moines Register, university President Sally Mason told the Iowa Board of Regents on Wednesday in Cedar Falls that officials are cracking down on smokers following complaints about smoking near university hospitals. © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comAugust 6, 2009Previous PagePage 48 of 115Next Page
