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Students At Small ND Campus Complain About Diversity Overload

Dickinson State has boosted its international enrollment from 20 students in 2000 to 396 students last fall. Some Dickinson State students say the record hasn’t come easy, and complain about diversity overload. Though none of the international students have reported violence, some say they have experienced insensitivity.

Students At Small ND Campus Complain About Diversity Overload

The snack bar at Dickinson State University, in one of the least diverse states in the country, is a melting pot. International students from Armenia to Zimbabwe speak their native languages as they contemplate such American fare as fried chicken warmed under a heat lamp.

Faculty & Staff

Improving the Communities Scholars Study

The research taking place in Africa on educational equity most often benefits the scholars who publish studies and has little direct impact on the lives of those being studied, a researcher said during a presentation Monday at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Comparative & International Education Society.

UNCF Partners with Public Policy Organization to Recruit HBCU Students for Fellowship Program

The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation is helping the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program recruit more students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Asian American Pacific Islander

Penn Program Seeks to Widen Students’ International Perspectives

Officials at the University of Pennsylvania hope that two community-oriented projects will help increase awareness among students and teachers about the diversity of the Asian culture.

Community Colleges

Chat Transcripts: International Talks – Community Colleges and Global Recruiting

Read transcripts of the Diverse web chat event on community colleges and global recruiting. Chat was held on Tuesday, January 22nd.

Leadership & Policy

15 Schools Scrutinized in Study-abroad Program Probe

NEW YORK Study-abroad programs at 15 colleges and universities including Harvard and Columbia are being scrutinized by the New York attorney general’s office to ensure cozy deals between schools and companies that provide the programs are not cheating students, a top investigator said Monday.

Two Bowling Green State Students Died In Crash

ORLAND, Ind. — A van full of international students from Bowling Green State University in Ohio overturned on a snow-covered highway early Wednesday, killing two. The rental van, with six people inside, rolled several times and landed on its roof in the median of the Indiana Toll Road in northeastern Indiana, state police Cpl. Derek […]

Report: Minority Doctoral Recipients Gaining Momentum

Twenty percent of the U.S. citizens awarded research doctorates from American universities in 2006 were ethnic minorities, according to a recent report released by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with the National Opinion Research Center and an assortment of government agencies.

Two Students Found Dead At LSU

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana Police increased patrols at Louisiana State University while they investigate the killings of two doctoral students from India, but the campus remained open Saturday, the last day of final exams. The decision to keep the campus open was in contrast to the responses at other colleges to reports of gunfire since the […]

Community Colleges

Competing Interests

With California community colleges experiencing severe budget woes, residents take issue with one district’s international student recruitment efforts.

School Bans Students Without Mumps Shots

The University of Southern Maine began notifying more than 400 students Thursday that they’re being banned from campus for failing to meet the latest vaccination requirements for mumps. Campus officials provided student lists to professors and were trying to reach about 50 on-campus residents to make sure they have another place to go. The 426 […]

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