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Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates
Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]
December 1, 2004
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New Perkins Bill Gains Favor With Educators, Lawmakers
New Perkins Bill Gains Favor With Educators, LawmakersBy Garry Boulard For the advocates of vocational and technical education, Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., has good news: The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act will not be gutted.“That was one of our primary concerns,” said Kimberly Green, executive director of the National Association of State […]
June 30, 2004
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Tested Practices Buoy University of Phoenix Online
Tested Practices Buoy University of Phoenix Online Black Issues presents in Techtalk the first of occasional question-and-answer sessions with prominent information technology leaders in higher education. In this issue, Brian Mueller, vice president and chief operating officer of the profitable University of Phoenix Online, discusses the for-profit higher education company’s track record at running one […]
February 27, 2002
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Economic Slowdown Bad News for Student Debtors
Economic Slowdown Bad News for Student DebtorsIn his briefing to the Senate Banking Committee last month, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said that while the economy is slowing, economic futures remain bright because productivity continues to be robust. This steady productivity is the result of changes in the way we do business, largely because […]
March 28, 2001
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Neither A Pot of Gold Nor A Highway To Heaven
Neither A Pot of Gold Nor A Highway To Heaven‘All that glitters is not gold,” is a favorite adage of seasoned prospectors. “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions,” is another. The title and thickness of this book suggest that it will yield a glimmering mother lode of promising perspectives, practices and prescriptions […]
July 5, 2000
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The Fumble of A Lifetime
The Fumble of A LifetimeFormer sports- scholar’s troubles turn a spotlight on the higher education community and whether officials should be doing more to groom their athletes for life off the fieldBOULDER, Colo. — In 1992, Rae Carruth was given a football scholarship by officials here at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was […]
April 26, 2000
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