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Students

Student Loan Interest Rates Increasing

Interest rates go up today for students taking out new federal loans. This hike is relatively minimal but could foreshadow more increases to come.

June 30, 2014

African-American

The Redskins Fight and the Legacy of Richard Oakes

It’s amazing how even some young people at the school, and even some regular folks in the city I asked at random, had no idea who Oakes was.

June 23, 2014

African-American

Generation X: The Distinguished Generation

A recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center earlier this spring focused on Generation X. This is the group of Americans born between 1965 and 1979.

June 22, 2014

Home

Migration Policy Institute Details Impact of Funding Cuts on Immigrant Youth in California

New report shows how immigrant youth were impacted by state budget cuts to the school system and how their educational outcomes can be improved.

June 18, 2014

Community Colleges

Starbucks Offers Its Employees an Educational Break

In collaboration with Arizona State University, the company will pay employees’ college tuition during their junior and senior years.

June 16, 2014

Students

Ruby Dee’s Legacy of Activism, Acting Mourned

For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined.

June 12, 2014

Sports

Former TV Exec: Paying College Athletes Could Harm Sports

Neal Pilson testified that fans enjoy the concept of young people playing college sports for the love of the game.

June 12, 2014

Students

Takeover Triggers Debate Over Georgia State University Radio Station

The staff at Georgia State University’s student-run radio station has a go-to April Fool’s joke. They dream up a buyer for the university’s FCC license—a New Age station or maybe talk radio.

June 1, 2014

Students

Today’s Students Marching to Their Beat for Successful Living

We forgot to ask if our kids were ready for college. I was a college administrator and I should have known better.

May 20, 2014

Opinion

Slain Legal Immigrant to Receive Posthumous Degree

San Francisco State University confers Stephen Guillermo, a student shot and killed this month, with a posthumous degree in International Relations.

May 18, 2014

LGBTQ+

When a Young Life Ends Tragically

Why San Francisco State University senior Stephen Guillermo won’t graduate this year.

May 5, 2014

Students

Dr. Victoria Defrancesco Soto

Dr. Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto is a fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School of Public Aff airs at the University of Texas. Her research on political behavior has been widely published in scholarly journals and cited in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Time, and POLITICO. […]

May 1, 2014