Margaret KamaraDisabiltiesBest and Brightest: No Age-limit On Achieving One’s Dream, Conquering FearsPatricia Doty is far from the traditional college student. At 55, when most her age are discussing retirement plans, she still has dreams, and one of them she recently accomplished when she graduated with a master’s degree in vocational rehabilitation from Winston-Salem State University, in North Carolina.July 21, 2007HomeIs Environmental Racism a Myth?A new environmental inequality study suggests that racial disparities in housing and income may not be why heavily minority areas tend to be more polluted.July 16, 2007HomeBest and Brightest’ Scholar’s Promising Future Ends TragicallyDevin Gaines, who became one of the University of Connecticut’s most noteworthy 2007 alumni when he graduated with five degrees in five years, died early Tuesday morning.July 11, 2007HomeIHEP Report Urges Support for Working Poor Trying to Earn DegreesWASHINGTON, D.C. When Rachel Mayo decided to attend Northeastern University in Boston, she wasn’t deterred by the $31,500 tuition the private research institution charges.July 10, 2007StudentsBET Founder Johnson Pitches Minority-friendly Student Loan ProductWASHINGTON, D.C. Urban Ed Express, the loan company launched last year by BET founder Robert Johnson, promises to not only help students prevented from pursuing a college education because of financial barriers, but to encourage financial literacy in the Black community as a whole, Johnson told an audience at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators conference on Monday.July 8, 2007Community CollegesBishop State Gets Transition Team to Help Fix Financial ProblemsMOBILE, Ala. Alabama College System chancellor Bradley Byrne has created for Bishop State Community College a transition team, lead by the administrator to replace outgoing president Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, to help the college recover from the financial scandal that has threatened the predominately Black institution’s accreditation.July 8, 2007Leadership & PolicyAntioch College Alumni Fight to Keep the College OpenAntioch College alumni have come up with a plan to keep the college open by having it sever ties with the Antioch University system and stand on its own.July 5, 2007HBCUsAre U.S. News’ Rankings Inherently Biased Against Black Colleges?The U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings have long had their share of critics, and Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of historically Black Philander Smith College, is trying to enlist his HBCU counterparts in boycotting the rankings.June 27, 2007HomeAffirmative Action Debate: Clegg vs. ShawWASHINGTON, D.C. The debate over whether racial diversity can be a “compelling interest” to justify the use of race in public school admissions will come to an end this week when the U.S. Supreme Court rules in two cases on voluntary desegregation.June 26, 2007HomeBlack College Enrollment in the South Equals Population for First TimeA 52 percent increase in Black enrollment in Southern colleges between 1995 and 2005 means that, for the first time, Black representation in college is equal to their population in the South, according to the Southern Regional Education Board’s annual fact book.June 25, 2007Previous PagePage 3 of 5Next Page