Michelle J. NealyHomeThe Crucial Youth VotePolitical pundits expect young voters, including college students, to figure prominently in today’s presidential primary vote in New Hampshire as they did, turning out in record numbers, in last week’s Iowa caucuses.January 7, 2008Leadership & PolicyMichigan’s Only HBCU Struggling to Stay AfloatSenior faculty members at Lewis College of Business in Detroit emerged from a recent meeting nervously optimistic. With the school on the brink of closure, that was all they could be, explains Deolis Allen, dean and chief academic officer of the school.January 6, 2008StudentsBlack Student Leaders Get Re-energized at D.C. ConferenceWASHINGTON, D.C. To say the recently concluded National Black Student Leadership Development Conference was helpful to Shawna Murray, a junior at the University of Maryland, College Park, is an understatement.January 6, 2008StudentsGrowth in Minority Student Enrollment Gives Rise to More MSIsMore minority undergraduate students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities than ever, and more of them are choosing minority-serving institutions such as historically Black colleges and universities, Asian-serving institutions and Hispanic-serving institutions.December 26, 2007InternationalReport: Minority Doctoral Recipients Gaining MomentumTwenty percent of the U.S. citizens awarded research doctorates from American universities in 2006 were ethnic minorities, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center and an assortment of government agencies.December 26, 2007HomeStudy: Workplace and Community Engagement Key to Interracial FriendshipWhile the number of Americans reporting someone of another race among their “very close friends” has risen 6 percent over the last 20 years, interracial, close friendships are still rare in the lives of most Americans.December 20, 2007HomeCollege Students Are Becoming Increasingly SpiritualWhen 18-year-old Alexandria Queen first stepped foot on the campus of Howard University, she came with a shallow pool of religious experiences. Four years later, the graduating senior insists that her spiritual growth since freshman year has been “tremendous” and continues to surge.December 19, 2007StudentsAsian American Studies: A Harvard AspirationDuring the 1980s, Asian American students at Harvard University staged a noisy protest petitioning the university to hire an Asian American studies professor. Hundreds of student signatures were collected. No professors were hired.December 19, 2007HomeAnalysts Forecast Boom In Minority College EnrollmentMinority enrollment at postsecondary institutions is slated to see some significant increases over the next 10 years, analysts say. It is projected to increase 140 percent between 2005, the last year of actual data, and 2016, according to moderate projections by researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics.December 18, 2007HomeSister Mentors Allows Women Doctoral Students To Help Each OtherWhen Dr. Shireen Lewis in 1997 founded Sister Mentors, a dissertation writing support group, her goal was simple: to empower more women of color to get doctoral degrees, a seemingly impossible task in the realm of graduate education dominated by White men and women.December 16, 2007Previous PagePage 21 of 25Next Page
