Tag: Minority Serving Institutions: Page 7

Students

Learning From Minority-Serving Institutions

The success of all students needs to be anchored in a shared understanding among all stakeholders that it is long past time to abandon the “one-size-fits-all” view of students.

September 30, 2014

Disabilties

In Case You Missed It …

Kurt Schmoke Looks to Raise University of Baltimore’s Profile Diverse Conversations: Three Ways HBCUs Can Avoid Dying Out NYU’s Initiative for Women With Disabilities Provides Holistic Wellness Services Wilberforce University Moving Closer to Naming President

September 18, 2014

Students

Special Focus: Persons with Disabilities

This edition profiles Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, president of Talladega College and a critic of misclassifying students as learning disabled.

September 11, 2014

Students

Study: Minority-Serving Schools Serve Students of Color as Well as Predominantly White Institutions

A new study challenges the notion that Black and Latino students are less likely to earn a college degree if they attend minority-serving institutions, such as a historically Black college.

August 26, 2014

MSIs

Department of Defense to Oversee Plagiarism Probe

The Department of Defense has taken the unusual step of overseeing a plagiarism investigation being conducted by the U.S. Army War College against Sen. John Walsh of Montana, the college’s provost said Tuesday.

July 29, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Iowa State AIDS Research Team Loses $1.38M Grant

An AIDS research team at Iowa State University will not get a final payment of $1.38 million it had been awarded from the National Institutes of Health after a team member admitted last year to faking research results.

July 8, 2014

African-American

HistoryMakers Collection Finds Home at Library of Congress

Kenneth E. Reeves, facing front, discusses his trailblazing role as a student at Harvard College and later as the first African-American mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo Courtesy of The HistoryMakers Collection at the Library of Congress)

July 8, 2014

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

Leadership & Policy

Randolph-Macon College’s Less Heralded Congressional Candidate Puts Education Atop Agenda

Democratic nominee Jack Trammell will take on fellow Randolph-Macon professor David Brat, who barreled into the political spotlight with an upset of incumbent Eric Cantor, in Virginia’s seventh district race.

June 17, 2014

MSIs

Senate Republicans Block Student Loan Bill

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation aimed at letting people refinance their student loans at lower rates, a pre-ordained outcome that gave Democrats a fresh election-year talking point against the GOP.

June 11, 2014

Students

UC Santa Barbara Students Targeted By Gunman

Elliot Rodger identified as suspect in killing spree that claimed lives of seven, including his own.

May 26, 2014

African-American

Dream Catcher

In this issue, Diverse salutes Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton, the influential former president of Cuyahoga Community College.

May 22, 2014