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Latinx

Obama Administration Releases Latino Education Report

Changing demographics mean challenges facing Latino students are of importance to the entire nation, a senior U.S. Department of Education official presenting a report in Miami said Wednesday.

April 28, 2011

Latinx

New Census Milestone: Hispanics Reach 50 Million

Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans.

March 27, 2011

African-American

Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs

African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.

March 20, 2011

Students

K-12 Science Proficiency Bottoms Out Among Nation’s High School Seniors; Blacks, Latinos at Lowest Levels

Only about one-fifth of America’s high school seniors are proficient in science, and the rates of proficiency are even lower among minority students, according to the results of a national science assessment released Tuesday.

January 25, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Universities Forced to Adapt as Demographics Shift

“Majority minority” college classes appearing earlier than expected.

January 3, 2011

African-American

Black Segregation in U.S. Drops to Lowest in Century

America’s neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as Blacks and Whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century.

December 15, 2010

African-American

Latino Men See Dramatic Jump as First-year Medical School Students

While the number of first-year enrollees to U.S. medical schools has gradually risen in recent years, the demographic with the most dramatic jump was among Hispanic males whose medical school enrollment increased by 17.1 percent over last year.

October 13, 2010

African-American

Policy Summit Tackles Changing U.S. Demographics

During a National Journal policy summit on demographics and the workforce of the future, it was pointed out that 65 percent of the population is White, compared to 70 percent in 2000 and 80 percent in 1980. Generation Y, aged 30 and under, is two-fifths non-White.

June 17, 2010

African-American

Taking Diversity to the Next Level

With expanded management and planning responsibilities, high-ranking chief diversity officers are heading their institutions’ comprehensive approach to inclusiveness.

June 8, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholars Discuss How U.S. Higher Education Can Avoid Decline

Higher education is widely viewed as an American success story during the twentieth century, but now it’s facing a series of challenges that threaten that preeminence, said one expert at an American Enterprise Institute forum on reinventing the American university last week.

June 6, 2010

African-American

Interracial Marriage Still Rising But at Slower Pace Than 1990s

The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has risen 20 percent since 2000 to about 4.5 million, according to the latest census figures. While still growing, that number is a marked drop-off from the 65 percent increase between 1990 and 2000.

May 27, 2010

Home

Opinion: Reimagining Diversity in Our Institutions

In these times of staggering economic and demographic change, mission-driven investments in diversity are essential to institutional sustainability.

May 17, 2010