Jamaal Abdul-AlimAfrican-AmericanOnly Half of U.S. Students Taking ‘College-Ready’ CoursesOnly about half of all U.S. high school students actually take the sequence of courses they need to be considered ready for college and careers, according to a new report being released today by the Education Trust.April 4, 2016StudentsInitiative Aims to Eliminate Gaps Between Rich and Poor StudentsLeaders from a group of public urban universities recently launched a new collaborative initiative to improve completion rates and eliminate the gaps between rich and poor students.April 3, 2016SportsFinal Four of Urban Design Gives Students Real Life ExperienceFinal Four competition gives graduate students the opportunity to form their own multidisciplinary teams and come up with a “comprehensive design and development program for a real, large-scale site full of challenges and opportunities.”April 3, 2016StudentsExpert: Higher Ed Needs to Embrace Assessments of Student LearningColleges and universities should embrace assessments of student learning in order to prove their worth as college costs rise and the job market remains tough.March 31, 2016African-AmericanObama’s 2017 Budget Freezes Funding for Most Low-income Student Aid ProgramsPresident Barack Obama’s proposed fiscal 2017 budget freezes funding for most higher education and student aid programs that serve low-income and minority students, according to a budget analysis released Thursday on Capitol Hill.March 31, 2016StudentsMore Students Seeing the World Without Getting CreditsA survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.March 30, 2016African-AmericanAfter Protest, ‘The Bell Curve’ Author Sails Through LectureBut for all the things the protesters at Virginia Tech had to say about Murray and his writings, when the time came to say something directly to Murray during the Q&A, the protesters offered not a peep.March 27, 2016African-AmericanED Secretary: U.S. Higher Ed Becoming ‘Caste System’John King warned that the U.S. is becoming a “caste system of colleges and universities” in which more affluent students have advantages while poorer students “get shortchanged.”March 24, 2016WomenNelson Uses Critical Race to go Above and Beyond the LawWhen Camille Nelson takes on the position of dean of the American University Washington College of Law in July, she will be one of few critical race theorists who’ve risen to the position of law dean.March 21, 2016African-AmericanProfessor Says Only Law Can Cure Bias, Racism in Health CareDayna Matthew says that, when it comes to eliminating the racial disparities that plague America’s health care system, the cure is to be found in the law.March 18, 2016Previous PagePage 30 of 80Next Page
