Tag: Degree Attainment: Page 12

Students

National Academies Committee Recommends Measures To Boost Minority STEM Participation

Citing the relatively low levels of minority representation in science and engineering, leaders of a group working to increase diversity in those fields released a report Thursday that shows the extent of the problem and makes recommendations on how to solve it.

September 30, 2010

Students

Latino College Completion Campaign Moves Forward With Collaboration Strategy

Excelencia in Education spearheads collaboration among advocacy groups to improve Hispanic college attendance and graduation rates.

September 27, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Scrutiny of U.S. Higher Education Increasing, College Forum Panelists Say

As the Obama Administration continues its push to make the United States the most-college educated nation in the world by 2020, institutions of higher learning should expect increased media and governmental scrutiny around issues of quality and accountability, experts said Tuesday at a Washington forum on college completion.

September 21, 2010

African-American

Obama Urges College Completion Agenda As Economic Imperative

Avoiding pronouncements on affirmative action and immigration reform, President Barack Obama touts college completion agenda during visit to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday.

August 9, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Indiana Launches Western Governors University Program

Partnership between Western Governors University and Indiana likely to improve college-degree attainment among the state’s minority students.

August 8, 2010

Latinx

Poll: Despite Low Degree Attainment, Latinos Value Higher Education

Despite strong belief in the value of a college diploma, Hispanics more often than not fall short of that goal.

July 29, 2010

Home

College Board Releases ‘Scorecard’ Report on U.S. Degree Completion Progress

Building on the movement to boost college completion rates in the United States, the College Board on Thursday released a new report meant to be the first “scorecard” in a series of assessments on how well the nation is doing at getting more of its citizens to earn college degrees.

July 22, 2010

Home

Leader of Governors Group Targets College Attainment Rates

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin launched a project as incoming National Governors Association chairman that he believes can improve the higher education degree attainment rate in each state by at least 4 percent annually.

July 12, 2010

African-American

Association Creates Plan for ‘1890’ HBCUs To Meet Modern Challenges

Dr. Lorenzo Esters has spoken resolutely about the “bold, futuristic and intentional” plan launched last month for 18 historically Black land-grant colleges and universities, but he could have easily been summing up his first year as the person tapped by the nation’s oldest higher education association to advance access and diversity among its member institutions.

July 12, 2010

Community Colleges

Report: States Can Improve College Readiness

States can improve college degree attainment by utilizing college readiness standards that link high school curricula to postsecondary education, according to a new report released by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and the Southern Regional Education Board.

July 8, 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

Home

Report: Low-Income Students Reaching College; Too Few Earn Degrees

The report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy entitled “A Portrait of Low-Income Young Adults in Education” is the first in a series of reports that examines impoverished young adults and their role in the nation’s college completion push.

June 8, 2010