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Students

Arguments Heat Up Over New Undergraduate Degree Program at University of Delhi

The new four-year undergraduate degree program at the University of Delhi will align India’s undergraduate education with a U.S. education.

May 29, 2013

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Deans of Education Rethinking How to Make Teaching a Major Attraction

The workshop was part of the AERA conference that attracted 14,000 scholars and thought leaders, who examined topics such as rural education, queer studies, indigenous peoples of the Americas and charter school research and evaluation.

April 29, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Diverse Docket: Judge Rules Miami U. Did Not Discriminate in Tenure Case

Dr. Marvin Thrash claimed his department chair worked against his eligibility for tenure and refused to consider outside evaluators from HBCUs.

April 23, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Tech Venture Initiative Launched on HBCU Campuses

Representatives of the HBCU community launched an effort to stream a tech-based entrepreneurship initiative at Black institutions.

March 7, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Former Internee Who Funded Endowed Chair at UCLA Dies

Perhaps the most notable of the many UCLA gifts from Aratani and his wife, Sakaye, was one that endowed the nation’s first academic chair devoted specifically to the study of the internment and the decades-long, post-war efforts by Japanese Americans for redress.

March 1, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Diversity Initiative Seeks to Boost Liberal Arts College, Research University Cooperation

Three renowned liberal arts colleges have announced the launch of a faculty diversity initiative that seeks a new paradigm for how liberal arts institutions interact with research universities on faculty development and recruitment.

December 20, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Rutgers Study: For College Students with Disabilities, Success Linked to Mentoring, Self-Advocacy and Perseverance

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A Rutgers study of recent New Jersey college graduates with disabilities has found that students attributed their academic success to a combination of possessing strong personality traits as perseverance and their relationship with a faculty or staff mentor.

October 23, 2012

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Week Conference: Black College Leaders Counseled on Federal Contracting, Grant Opportunities

Experts told HBCU leaders that to win federal grants and contracts means administrators must have a realistic sense of their school’s capabilities, hire faculty with a vision to conduct research, and be willing to remedy shortcomings in their proposals.

September 26, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Empowering First-Generation College Students: The Role of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)

A Walmart-funded report led by the Institute of Higher Education Policy involved 30 minority-serving institutions, including 12 historically black colleges and universities, 12 Hispanic-serving institutions and six tribal colleges and universities.

September 17, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Playing to Win

Fayetteville State University aims to attract major grant dollars through its Center for Defense and Homeland Security, that was established by the North Carolina -based historically Black university.

September 10, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Ivy League Trailblazer Ruth Simmons Looks Back at Brown Presidency

Brown University president Ruth Simmons reflects on tenure, marking milestones of a second campus, faculty growth and need-blind admissions.

November 21, 2011

Students

APLU Panel Addresses Challenges of Minorities Enrolled in STEM Fields

Despite growing public awareness and collective efforts to increase the ranks of U.S. minority college students seeking degrees in STEM fields, their supporters and advocates still struggle with many of the same issues today as they did several decades ago, a panel of educators says.

November 14, 2011