Diverse StaffStudentsUniversity Presidents Seek Restored Funding in New MexicoA council of university presidents from New Mexico is lobbying to have about $745 million put back in the state’s public colleges and universities coffers.April 17, 2017StudentsClerical Oversight Shuts Down Michigan State Upward Bound ProgramA technical error will cost Michigan State University about $480,000 in federal funding but it will be underserved high school students from Lansing, Mich., who will be short-changed.April 13, 2017African-AmericanActivist, Journalist Roger Wilkins DiesCivil rights activist and noted journalist Roger Wilkins, who led the Community Relations Service in the Johnson administration in the 1960s, has died at age 85.March 27, 2017Leadership & PolicyFisk University Names Kevin Rome PresidentFisk University named Kevin Rome as its 16th president, filling the historically Black institution’s executive position on a non-interim basis for the first time since September 2015.March 23, 2017StudentsDonors Solve Talladega College’s Inaugural Parade Funding IssueTalladega College said it needed $75,000 to carry out the controversial decision to have its marching band perform in President-electDonald J. Trump’s inaugural parade Friday. As of Monday, donors have pledged more than $400,000 on the Alabama school’s GoFundMe page and an appearance by the historically Black college’s President Billy C. Hawkins last Friday on […]January 16, 2017Health2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student AffairsThe University of Vermont and the University of West Georgia are among the 2017 Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs, making them the only schools to make the list in each of its four years of existence.January 12, 2017Leadership & PolicyGroundbreaking President Jewel Plummer Cobb DiesJewel Plummer Cobb, one of the first African Americans to lead a major university west of the Mississippi, died on New Year’s Day in Maplewood, N.J., at age 92. Cobb served as the third president of Cal State Fullerton, a position she held from 1981 through her retirement in 1990. During that period, she secured […]January 12, 2017Diverse ChampionsKay McClenney Named as 2017 Diverse Champions Award WinnerDr. Kay McClenney, a veteran leader in education and a community college advocate, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Diverse Champions Award.January 10, 2017StudentsASPiRE Premieres ‘Bama State Style’ Tonight“Bama State Style,” the reality TV show featuring Alabama State University’s Mighty Marching Hornets Band, has been acquired by the nationally syndicated ASPiRE Television Network and premieres tonight.January 9, 2017News RoundupGary Orfield to Receive Marie Fielder MedalLongtime civil rights scholar Dr. Gary Orfield will receive the Marie Fielder Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Social Transformation. Orfield, the Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, will receive the award on Jan. 13 in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Fielding Graduate University’s Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership […]December 21, 2016Previous PagePage 6 of 113Next Page