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Bay Area Digital News Project Promises Diverse Coverage

Innovative Web site news outlets, such as the Bay Area News Project, promise coverage of diversity in U.S. communities, but some observers are skeptical of such claims.

October 14, 2009

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Streamlined State Regulation Key to Distance Education Success, Advocates Say

Distance education coalition meets to develop strategy on advocating state regulation reform of online study programs.

October 13, 2009

Community Colleges

HARVESTING ‘GREEN-COLLAR’ JOBS

Scholars and academic institutions help local communities grow new employment sector.

September 30, 2009

Latinx

WASHINGTON UPDATE: An Ally and Partner

White House Hispanic education leader seeks to build links to educators, improve visibility of HSIs with federal agencies.

September 30, 2009

Students

SPECTRUM: FROM DESPAIR TO DISCOVERY

Dr. Raul Cuero was one of 10 children born in abject poverty in Buenaventura, Colombia, to parents who could not read and write. Lacking books, he indulged his curiosity by investigating the creatures around him.

September 30, 2009

Community Colleges

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Mission Accepted: Opening Laboratory Doors to Urban Minority Communities

The Baltimore City Community College Life Sciences Institute helps place minority students and displaced workers into high-demand bioscience careers.

September 2, 2009

Sports

Women of Color Who Work in College Athletics Convening This Week at Rutgers

It’s one of the busiest weeks of the year in college athletics—with classes starting or about to start and training and practice for fall sports in full swing. Yet approximately 40 women of color who work in college athletics will convene at Rutgers University on Wednesday for a mini-forum designed to explore and overcome the barriers facing minority female administrators and coaches.

August 23, 2009

Leadership & Policy

ASSIGNMENTS GETTING TOUGHER FOR TRUSTEES

When Miami Attorney Larry R. Handfield joined the board of trustees of Bethune-Cookman University, the oversight drill for the trustees of the small, historically Black liberal arts institution in Florida was routine as it was for most schools around the country: ensure the president was not running amok with the schools money or mission, help put out occasional “fires,” and secure or deliver a favor to and from the school on occasion.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Building the Bridge to Obama

White House Initiative leader Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. seeks to forge relationships between HBCUs and the Obama administration.

August 19, 2009

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MCC fundraiser resigns, eight months after taking job

Muskegon Community College’s top fundraiser has resigned after just eight months on the job.  According to mlive.com, MCC Foundation Director Diane Szewczyk-Smith submitted her resignation during the foundation’s board meeting Aug. 4. Szewczyk-Smith, whose resignation took effect immediately, could not be reached for comment. © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com

August 11, 2009

Students

THE EXPERIMENT

In an age in which free Craigslist online classifieds, self-reported news blogs and a plethora of Web news sources are sapping advertising revenue from print media, many news organizations are searching for new, more viable business models.

August 5, 2009

African-American

CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE

For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nation’s leading meteorologists, has been among the U.S. scientists that have studied and predicted the long-term impact greenhouse gas emissions.

August 5, 2009