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Census Says Women Equal to Men in Advanced Degree Attainment

Women are now just as likely as men to have completed college and to hold an advanced degree, part of an accelerating trend of educational gains that have shielded women from recent job losses.

April 20, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Cal State Unveils Plan to Increase Graduation Rates for Students of Color

An initiative aimed at increasing the graduation rates of under-represented students at the nation’s largest university system has critics concerned some provisions will dilute quality education and exacerbate existing gaps.

January 27, 2010

Students

Changing the Measures of Success for HBCUs

Public HBCUs want institutional graduation rates to reflect social and economic obstacles borne by their disadvantaged students.

December 14, 2009

International

U.S. May Not be Lagging Behind Internationally, Report Says

The headlines are emblazoned with the gloomy tales of America’s academic decline as drop-out rates skyrocket and adult educational attainment sags behind international competitors, but one educational statistician, in a newly released report, said it’s nothing more than propaganda.

November 3, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Survey Shows More Diversity and Higher Graduation Rates at Public HBCUs

Public Historically Black Colleges and Universities have grown and expanded in the last 20 years, making their students and faculty among the most intellectually and racially diverse in higher education, according to a survey released Monday.

September 13, 2009

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Top 100 – Graduate Degree Producers

The Top 100 degree tables published in this edition of Diverse, and the many more detailed tables included on the Diverse Web site, delineate the institutions that have conferred the most master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees to students of color in academic year 2007-2008.

July 22, 2009

Students

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Tenured Faculty at Two-year Schools Impact Student Transfers

State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to fouryear institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps.

July 8, 2009

Students

Tenured Faculty at Community College Favorably Impact Student Transfer Decisions

State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to four-year institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps, according to a recent study conducted by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington.

July 8, 2009

Community Colleges

Top 100 – Undergraduate Degree Producers

We are coming to the end of an era! For many years we have been stating that the categories of race/ethnicity used in representing degree attainment will soon be changed.

June 24, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Sounding Off About a Silver Celebration

William E. Cox and Frank Matthews discuss the vision they had when they started Black Issues/Diverse 25 years ago and the magazine’s contributions to the higher education community.

June 10, 2009

STEM

The Browning of U.S. Higher Education

Changing student demographics may prove the most formidable ever for American colleges and universities as well as for public K-12 school systems, scholars say.

June 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

A Deceiving Label?

There’s growing debate among educators on whether the umbrella Asian Pacific Islander label conceals disparities among Asian American students or provides political power in numbers.

June 10, 2009