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CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE

For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nation’s leading meteorologists, has been among the U.S. scientists that have studied and predicted the long-term impact greenhouse gas emissions.

August 5, 2009

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Census: 15.5% of Virginians without insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 15.5 percent of Virginians don’t have health insurance.  The estimates released Monday also show that the percentage of uninsured is higher in college towns, The Star Exponent reported.    Harrisonburg, home to James Madison University, had the highest rate, 28.5 percent. The rate in Montgomery County, which includes Virginia […]

August 4, 2009

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Perspectives: Wake Up GOP: Sotomayor is This Generation’s Jackie Robinson

Nine years into the new millennium and conservatives and Republicans — with straight faces — insist that it is they that should define the nation’s racial debate and that it is their views that are fair and objective and part of the U.S. mainstream.

July 15, 2009

Leadership & Policy

LASTWORD

From my childhood in Afghanistan to my current role as an American university president, I have been blessed with many opportunities to explore different cultures.

July 8, 2009

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THE OBAMA BOOKS BOOM

As Barack Obama’s rise to power inspires a flood of books, scholars hope the publishing trend will yield serious analysis.

July 8, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Setting a New Standard

Despite the gains minorities have made in student enrollment and higher education leadership, the needle needs to move further and faster in the next 25 years to narrow the widening educational achievement equity gap.

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

Students

Getting Into the Game

Despite the fast-growing and lucrative landscape of video game designing, minority students are finding themselves with limited options in the field.

March 19, 2009

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Women of color emerge as new face of small business

Maya Breuer started her business eight years ago because she says she wanted to make a living doing something personally meaningful.

December 2, 2008

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Leading Higher Education Association Launches Veterans’ Initiative

As U.S. higher education prepares for the expansion of federal benefits for American service members effective Aug. 1, 2009, the Washington, D.C.-based American Council on Education is promoting educational opportunity awareness and helping institutions serve veterans on their campuses.

November 10, 2008

Students

Safeguarding Against Voter Disenfranchisement

Voting rights advocates are examining voting infrastructure and laws in anticipation of high young voter turnout in November.

October 15, 2008

Asian American Pacific Islander

Asian American Voters: An Untapped Political Demographic, Scholars Say

Although their political power is largely untapped, the fast-growing Asian American population could emerge as a major political force, a group of Asian American academics told Congressional staffers this week during a briefing.

October 2, 2008