Cassie M. ChewHomeAcademic Leaders Debate Whether U.S. Higher Education Is BrokenIn a televised debate, two prominent public university leaders on Tuesday disagreed sharply with two private institution leaders on whether the business model of U.S. higher education is broken.April 28, 2010StudentsStudents Should Know Grad School Options Well, McNair Advisers ToldAdvisers in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program learned last week they will need to impress upon their students the necessity for increased understanding of graduate school options.March 29, 2010Community CollegesAdult Learners Key To U.S. Reclaiming College Completion Lead, Education Dept. Official SaysPresident Barack Obama’s goal to increase the number of two- or four-year degree holding Americans by 2020 will require significant investments in educating nontraditional-aged college students, a U.S. Education Department assistant secretary told TRIO program administrators Wednesday at the Council for Opportunity in Education’s annual seminar with Education Department officials.March 24, 2010African-AmericanHBCU Leaders Consider Partnerships Key to Remaining Competitive in Online EraCreating partnerships to link students across campuses and offering online academic programs to students were two of the solutions presidents of some of the country’s historically Black colleges and universities say will help keep their institution competitive as more options for higher education emerge.March 21, 2010African-AmericanBlack College Leaders Briefed on Historic Health Care, Education LegislationHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other congressional leaders addressed representatives from the nation’s Black colleges and universities just hours before Democratic leaders released a bill that combined highly sought education funding and student loan reform with historic legislation that aims to revamp U.S. health care.March 18, 2010Community CollegesDebaters Find Common Ground on Need for College AccountabilityVeteran higher education leaders, sparring over whether the U.S. workforce will need to increase its production of college graduates to remain a “world class” economic power, found common ground at a Washington higher education policy forum in urging that universities be held more accountable for providing a high-quality education that prepares students for the labor market.February 28, 2010HomeDeconstructing the Politics of RaceSet up as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diversity initiative, its Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society is analyzing important issues in race relations.April 16, 2008HomeUniversity of Illinois Center Works to Deconstruct the Politics of RaceSet up as part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s diversity initiative, its Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society is analyzing important issues in race relations.April 14, 2008African-AmericanDyson: Black History Month “Living, Significant and Important”Minister and civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned in today’s dollars nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year in the early 1960’s and gave nearly all of it to the civil rights movement, Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson said Thursday during a speech dissecting the roots of a celebration we now call Black History month.February 28, 2008StudentsBest & Brightest: Starting a Business Before Graduation, Not AfterWith his e-newsletter, the Networking Loop, Christopher Pollock, a third-year business student at Bowie State University, is taking the oft-repeated saying “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” to the Internet and becoming the essential link that helps small business owners connect.December 10, 2007Page 1 of 2Next Page
