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Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

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Minority Enrollment Low at Pennsylvania Universities, Report Says

Minority Enrollment Low at Pennsylvania Universities, Report Says HARRISBURG, Pa.The student population of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities is overwhelmingly White, and minority enrollment has stayed essentially flat over a five-year period, according to statistics presented to the system’s governing board last month. The five-year diversity report said that the number of minority students enrolled in […]

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic Achievement

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic AchievementBy Charles Dervarics To increase Hispanic student achievement, the nation should support new efforts on student retention and career programs that lead to college graduation, a presidential commission says. Noting one of every three Hispanics fail to complete high school and just 10 percent graduate from four-year colleges, the President’s Advisory […]

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Higher Education’s Tough Economic Times Affect Recruitment, Studies Say

Higher Education’s Tough Economic Times Affect Recruitment, Studies Say RESTON, Va.The past year’s sagging economy has caused many schools to retool their recruiting tactics, according to findings in a new national survey released last month. A separate report, also released last month, predicts that the current financial problems facing higher education could last as long […]

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Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions Policies

Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions PoliciesAre percentage plans the wave of the future? By Kendra Hamilton When President George W. Bush denounced the University of Michigan for maintaining a “quota” system for undergraduate and law admissions that was “divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution,” he clearly signaled his desire that the U.S. Supreme Court […]

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College, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web Site

College, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web SiteBy Ronald RoachBETHLEHEM, Pa.A coalition of college career center directors and corporate human resource executives have unveiled a Web-based, national college recruiting system intended to link colleges, students and employers. The project, NACElink, a joint venture of the Direct Employers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers […]

Survey Shows College Web Sites Emphasize Online Admissions

Survey Shows College Web Sites Emphasize Online Admissions IOWA CITY, IowaWhile the majority of colleges and universities provide admissions applications along with detailed admission and cost information on their Web sites, far fewer provide online financial aid and scholarship forms, specific information for parents, or online orientation programs, according to the 2002 National Enrollment Management […]

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Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks

Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks ASHEVILLE, N.C.The lowest enrollment of Blacks in five years at the University of North Carolina at Asheville has forced changes in how the school recruits minorities. Chancellor James Mullen issued the demand after just 10 Blacks enrolled with the 438 freshmen who started at the college […]

Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money

Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money ATLANTAMorris Brown College’s financial crisis appears to be growing as recent newspapers report in addition to being $23 million in debt, things are so bad that the cafeteria sometimes runs out of food, computer labs carefully ration paper and laptop computers that cost […]

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Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsLinda Burgess is the new head women’s basketball coach at Stillman College in Alabama. Burgess previously served as assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of West Alabama. She has a 13-year professional playing career including overseas and the WNBA, most recently with the Sacramento Monarchs. Burgess earned a bachelor’s from the University of […]

Mentoring: The Forgotten Retention Tool

Mentoring: The Forgotten Retention ToolI recently had the opportunity to converse with some colleagues about an important issue in higher education, minority student retention. This conversation prompted a period of personal reflection on my academic life as a student and educator on both historically White and historically Black campuses. After much retrospection on my experiences […]

Momentum Gathers as Posse

Momentum Gathers as Posse Moves WestwardBy Cheryl D. FieldsFourteen years ago, when Dr. Shirley Collado was still a senior in high school, her college dreams were modest. The Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of Dominican Republic immigrants aspired to be a first-generation college graduate. But with her modest SAT scores, unspectacular grades and working-class financial profile, the […]

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