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Latinx

U.S. News & World Report Sells Magazines, Higher Ed Goes into Despair

Not No.1 or No. 2? Forget About the Rankings Nonsense

September 13, 2015

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Relevancy? A Glance at U.S. Demographics Provides Answer

Not a week goes by where those of us in the HBCU community are confronted with the question of the continued relevancy of HBCUs.

September 9, 2015

Students

JOAN T.A. GABEL

JOAN T.A. GABEL has been named executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina. She was Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. Dean at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. Gabel earned a bachelor’s from Haverford College and a juris doctor from the University of Georgia.

September 9, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Some Purdue Students Oppose Name Change for Tech College

Purdue University senior Austin Haberly doesn’t want Purdue Polytechnic Institute on his degree.

September 7, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Venus Williams Earns B.S. Degree

Tennis superstar Venus Williams, currently focusing on her game this week at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows, New York, recently added another achievement to her resume: a Bachelor of Science degree.

September 2, 2015

Students

10 Years After Katrina

Ten years ago, the outside world watched television screens in horror as Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and ravaged the Gulf Coast and other areas in the final days of August 2005. Numerous books have been written on various aspects of the disaster and its consequences. Diversebooks.net has a number of books for teaching, counseling and general reading topics related to the disaster and recovery.

September 2, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Otis Readily Attests to HBCUs’ Roles as Career Launching Pads

Success didn’t come easy, but Otis doesn’t hesitate to give credit to getting the foundation he needed at Tennessee State University.

August 31, 2015

Community Colleges

In Case You Missed It…

GOP Still Needs Lesson in Diversity Decreasing Leaks in the Postsecondary Pipeline Expanding Postsecondary Opportunities for Incarcerated Americans Expert: ED Grants for AP Exams ‘More Pyrite Than Gold’

August 14, 2015

African-American

Expanding Postsecondary Opportunities for Incarcerated Americans

In the past three decades the United States’ incarceration rate has exploded, with seven million people currently behind bars, on probation, or parole.

August 12, 2015

Students

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University SENIOR STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICER: Stony Brook, N.Y. Dr. Peter M. Baigent Founded in 1957 Vice President for Student Affairs Office of Student Services http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/stu/ Stony Brook University is one of America’s most dynamic public universities, a center of academic excellence and an essential part of the region’s economy. A member of the […]

August 12, 2015

Students

Florida State University

Florida State University SENIOR STUDENT AFFAIRS OFFICER: Tallahassee, FL Dr. Mary B. Coburn Founded in 1851 Vice President of Student Affairs Division of Student Affairs https://studentaffairs.fsu.edu/ Florida State University is dedicated to teaching students a wide range of subjects including science, technology and the humanities while maintaining a learning philosophy based in liberal arts. The […]

August 12, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Toldson in Charge at White House HBCU Office

Dr. Ivory Toldson has been officially named acting executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges.

August 12, 2015