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Washington Update

Clinton Signs Higher Education Act Reauthorization

July 14, 2007

Students

Loan debt: a new view

Student loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.

July 12, 2007

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Congress, Clinton may force education to pay highway toll – President Bill Clinton

When is $200 billion a major problem? When it begins to crowd out spending on education, advocates say.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills

Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?

July 12, 2007

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny

As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the implications of the treaty which ended the war, and its political relevance and meaning to modern Mexico-U.S. relations.

July 12, 2007

Students

Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track

Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.

July 12, 2007

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Motivating faculty gets results – recruitment for minority graduate students

When Dr. Ted Greenwood talks about boosting the number of it under-rep presented minority doctoral holders in the sciences, there is a no-nonsense resolute quality to his voice.

July 12, 2007

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Harvard Civil Rights Project Gets $500,000 Grant

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Harvard Civil Rights Project — headed by Christopher Edley Jr., former advisor to President Bill Clinton and current law professor, and Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy — announced earlier this month that it had received a $500,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

July 12, 2007

Students

Washington UPDATE

ED Backs Continued Default-Rate Exemption for HBCUs

July 12, 2007

Students

The new faces of Vassar – minority undergraduate transfer students – includes related article

With only a few thousand African American and Latino high school students scoring 1310 and above on SAT tests, selective colleges often find themselves — scholarship money in hand — colliding into one another as they attempt to lure these highly-sought-after students to their campuses.

July 11, 2007

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1998 Ad

Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color.

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground

For hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poor adults, community colleges have long delivered their best chance for gaining sufficient education and training to land a job that could break their dependence on welfare.

July 11, 2007