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Students

Fellowship Program Opens Doors for Minority Researchers

The Keystone Symposia works to ensure more minority scientists can access career-advancing life sciences research and networking opportunities.

July 15, 2010

Home

Opinion: Historic Challenges Demand Trained Leadership

Higher education must help the nation meet multiple challenges, but more must be done to develop leaders who are enlightened, focused and tough.

June 23, 2010

Faculty & Staff

New Initiative To Examine Equity of College-access Programs

A new Kresge Foundation-funded research effort launching this summer will better equip teachers and administrators at two Boston high schools in getting their students prepared for college.

June 20, 2010

Students

College Success Foundation Celebrates 10 Years of Helping Students

The College Success Foundation, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, released a report highlighting its success in preparing socially disadvantaged middle and high school students to enter college and graduate.

June 9, 2010

Students

Community College Conference Urges Focus on Student Success

The theme of improving student success in community colleges took center stage Monday at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Thirty-Second Annual International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence.

May 31, 2010

African-American

Kellogg Foundation Commits $75M To Combat Racial Inequality

The Kellogg Foundation has inaugurated an ambitious nationwide campaign to combat racial and ethnic inequality with a five-year, $75 million commitment to award grants to support organizations working to fight racism.

May 11, 2010

Students

High Remedial Education Rate Complicates U.S. College Completion Goal Push

Nationwide, about a third of first-year students in 2007-08 had taken at least one remedial course, according to the U.S. Department of Education. At public two-year colleges, that number rises to about 42 percent.

May 11, 2010

African-American

House Panel Votes To Block NSF Funding Shift

A House of Representatives panel on Wednesday dealt a blow to the Obama administration’s plan to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving institutions into a single entity with broader competition.

April 29, 2010

Tenure

New Academic Home Expected To Help Maryland Update Journalism Education

With the National Association of Black Journalists on board as a tenant, the University of Maryland’s new state-of-the-art journalism building is said to embody the innovation of a changing media landscape.

April 25, 2010

African-American

Incoming IRA President Aims to Prepare Literacy Teachers to Instruct Diverse Classrooms

As a teenager in Albany, Ga., Patricia A. Edwards took the lead in teaching the younger kids in her community to read. When boys came to her father’s barbershop for haircuts she told them, “If you don’t let me teach you the alphabet, I’ll tell my daddy to give you a baldy.”

April 21, 2010

Latinx

Opinion: The Proposed NSF Broadening Participation Budget—A Lingering Odor

In congressional testimony, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Arden Bement voiced support for the Obama administration’s 8-percent increase in the NSF FY 2011 budget to $7.42 billion. The words were earnest, but, for communities supported by the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Directorate, the increase smells of a skunk.

March 17, 2010

African-American

Obama Proposal Seeks to Consolidate Minority Undergraduate STEM Programs

Weighing a new approach for assisting minority college students in the sciences, the Obama administration has proposed the National Science Foundation consolidate major initiatives that target specific racial and ethnic groups for participation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines into a single program.

March 10, 2010