Jamaal Abdul-AlimSTEMForum: Boeing Executive Advocates Real World Experiences To Inspire Innovation Among American StudentsDespite the increased time and attention being spent on raising standards in education, the nation’s workforce still faces a critical skills shortage—particularly in the STEM fields.July 18, 2011Community CollegesThe Middle College School Comes to MarylandThe Academy of Health Sciences — located on the campus of Prince George’s Community College — is part of a network of schools established under the auspices of the Middle College National Consortium and is the first such academy to be established in Maryland.July 11, 2011InternationalInternational Education Conference Aims to Help K-12 Teachers Rethink College Preparation in Global AgeOrganizers say a distinct purpose of the Asia Society: Partnership for Global Learning conference was to get K-12 educators better prepared to produce students who can exhibit the kind of global thinking that is desirable in higher education.July 10, 2011LatinxKellogg Foundation Pursues College Access AgendaTribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions are among beneficiaries of the foundation’s diversity-related efforts in U.S. higher education.June 29, 2011LatinxObama Administration Officials Take High Profile at Senate Hearing on DREAM ActA congressional hearing on Tuesday breathed new life into the decade-old and oft-thwarted effort to pass the proposed federal DREAM Act, but Democratic leaders concede there is no clear path to enactment and that one of the main obstacles is lack of Republican support.June 28, 2011StudentsScholarship Fund Group Seeks Increased Support for Asian American-focused Minority-Serving SchoolsForthcoming report urges that resources should be targeted to Minority-Serving Institutions with high concentration of low-income students from the often “overlooked and underserved” groups of Asian and Pacific Islander students.June 27, 2011African-AmericanHBCU Leaders Say They Should Share Their Campus Success StoriesGetting the message out on historically Black campuses was one of the major themes that emerged Thursday during a gathering of half a dozen HBCU presidents in Atlanta.June 23, 2011African-AmericanNew College Board Research on Young Men of Color Stirs Demand for ActionWhile a panel discussion held by The College Board on Capitol Hill this week was meant to highlight a new report on the lagging rates of educational attainment among non-White men, some of the panelists questioned the need for more research on the subject.June 22, 2011African-AmericanUNCF Green Building Institute Focuses on Helping Schools Find Funds, Save on CostsObama administration officials and environmental and finance experts advised at the UNCF Building Green Learning Institute on how UNCF campuses can enhance sustainability measures within buildings while saving on costs.June 19, 2011African-AmericanSymposium: National Intervention Urged for African-American BoysA symposium titled “A Strong Start: Positioning Young Black Boys for Educational Success” focused on the critical nature of the first nine years of life and was sponsored by the Educational Testing Service and the Children’s Defense Fund.June 14, 2011Previous PagePage 73 of 80Next Page
