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Blacks Will Be Undercounted Under New Proposal, Civil Rights Groups Say

Civil rights groups are opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to change the way colleges and K-12 schools…

October 18, 2006

Students

Perspectives: Harvard, Princeton Drop “Early Admissions” — Should Others Follow?

Through early admissions programs, students are under pressure to commit to a university before the financial aid application is even due. That knocks many high-achieving poor and minority students out of the running. Elite schools should follow up the elimination of early admissions with a policy to provide poor students with full financial aid. Those two necessary first steps in reframing admission and financial aid policies may improve diversity at America’s elite institutions.

September 20, 2006

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Education Department Plans to Move On Higher Ed Commission Advice

The National Commission on the Future of Higher Education has yet to issue a final report

September 20, 2006

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Education Department Plans To Move On Higher Ed Commission Advice

The National Commission on the Future of Higher Education has yet to issue a final report, but that hasn’t stopped the U.S. Department of Education from making plans to debate and implement its recommendations later this year.

September 15, 2006

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Black College Students Gather at First-Ever Leadership Caucus

About 200 students from eight Kentucky colleges gathered at Georgetown College for the first-ever statewide Black Student Leadership Caucus…

March 28, 2006

Students

Diversity, Visibility and Invisibility in Higher Education

The article “Class Matters” by Patricia Valdata on the research of Skidmore College professor Dr. Janet Galligani Casey…

March 8, 2006

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More Blacks, Hispanics Applying at University of Georgia

For the second straight year, the University of Georgia is seeing more Black applicants for the fall freshman class, university officials say…

February 26, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Larger Black Enrollment an Elusive Dream for University of Washington

Nearly four decades after Larry Gossett led a successful push to recruit more Black students to the University of Washington…

January 18, 2006

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Undocumented Students Face Financial Hurdle to College Education

When Fabiola Guevara graduated from South Dade Senior High School in June, 11 years after her mother fled…

January 2, 2006

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Un)Rankings and Degrees

(Un)Rankings and Degrees Degrees of Choice: Social Class, Race and Gender in Higher EducationBy Diane Reay, Miriam E. David and Stephen BallTrentham Books distributed in the U.S. by Stylus Publishing, 2005192 pp., $29.95 paper, ISBN: 1-85856-330-5 Degrees of Choice provides an account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process […]

November 2, 2005

African-American

Desperately Seeking Students

Desperately Seeking StudentsSeveral public flagships attempt to reverse disturbing declines in Black student college enrollment By Lydia LumAs high-school seniors begin to choose colleges in the coming months, officials at many public flagships nervously hope that their renewed outreach to Black students reverses steep and disappointing enrollment drops. Those declines, some of them by double-digit […]

March 23, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Finding The Right Prescription

Finding The Right PrescriptionIn stiff competition with the private sector for pharmacy faculty, academia often finds itself on the losing side By Tracie PowellAn aging population, the changing role of pharmacists as health systems rely more heavily on newer, sophisticated drug therapies to cure ills, and a proliferation of corner drug stores is driving a […]

November 17, 2004