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Students

Mexican Drug Conflict Threatens U.S. College Study Abroad Programs

U.S. State Department’s travel advisory compels some institutions to withdraw their students from the country for safety concerns.

International

Middle Tennessee Universities Court Foreign Students

Universities in Middle Tennessee are working harder to attract first-year students from overseas setting enrollment goals, adding positions and hiring recruiting companies.

African-American

Association Creates Plan for ‘1890’ HBCUs To Meet Modern Challenges

Dr. Lorenzo Esters has spoken resolutely about the “bold, futuristic and intentional” plan launched last month for 18 historically Black land-grant colleges and universities, but he could have easily been summing up his first year as the person tapped by the nation’s oldest higher education association to advance access and diversity among its member institutions.

Students

Best & Brightest: ‘I Had to Succeed’

No one would fault Jemima Pierre-Jacques if she decided to put off her studies this past spring semester at Prince George’s Community College. The native Haitian was mourning the loss of her father, Jude Pierre-Jacques, and eight other relatives in Port-au-Prince, casualties along with thousands of the 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti in January.

International

University of Iowa Broadens Its Global Reach

The University of Iowa aggressively recruits out-of-state and international students despite criticism that the institution’s budget shortfalls have compelled it to adopt the strategy.

Latinx

UC Campuses Report Record Low Admission Rates

Admission to the University of California was more competitive than ever this year as a record number of applicants competed for undergraduate slots, according to University of California officials.

African-American

The Black College and Globalization

America’s Black colleges want to internationalize their campuses and send their students abroad, but inadequate access to resources keeps many of these institutions restricted to U.S. shores, according to a 2005 study by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) organization. On Thursday, NAFEO sponsored an International Day during its annual national conference in Washington to match international organizations and their programs with Black colleges and universities.

HBCUs

World Bank Seeks Diverse U.S. Employees

This past fall the World Bank launched a new chapter in its long-running diversity and inclusion efforts by inaugurating the US Minorities Working Group.

Students

Foreign students excluded from university union

International students won’t be allowed to join a union for research assistants at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under a new policy that labor activists believe is the first of its kind in the U.S.

Students

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES : The Internationalist

Count Dr. Michael K. Dorsey as a scholar whose experience as an advocate on behalf of poor and marginalized peoples is as formidable as the expertise he demonstrates while teaching and conducting research in his capacity as an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

Students

NEW STATE OF LEADERSHIP:MINORITIES BREAK COLOR BARRIERS IN TOP ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AT PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONS.

Pennsylvania, the state with the sixth-largest population in the country with more than 12 million people, reportedly has more than 450 public and private colleges, universities and career and technical training schools.

International

STUDYING ABROAD – IN INDIAN COUNTRY

\n The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., have partnered to create Study Abroad in the Cherokee Nation, a program that allows UNC students to explore contemporary

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