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Financing College Diversity: Is it a Case Of ‘Robbing Peter to Pay Paul’?

Many readers may be shocked to learn that some of this nation’s colleges and universities practice price…

December 13, 2006

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Report: College Enrollment Gender Gap Widens for White, Hispanic Students

The gap between White and Hispanic undergraduates has widened, according to a new gender equity study released Tuesday by the American Council on Education.

July 11, 2006

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Study: Multiracial Youth More Likely to Engage in Violence, Substance Abuse

Multiracial adolescents in middle school are significantly more likely to engage in problem behaviors such as violence and substance abuse than single-race young people, according to a new study.

May 9, 2006

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University to Study Tenure Bias Against Female, Minority Professors

The Faculty Council at Oklahoma State University will study faculty promotion…

January 23, 2006

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Tobacco Use Among HBCU Students Not as Prevalent, Shows Preliminary Study

Findings from a survey conducted by North Carolina Central University and the Historically Minority Colleges and Universities Consortium show tobacco use is not as prevalent Story:

August 24, 2005

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Report: Rising College Costs Outstripping Student Aid

Report: Rising College Costs Outstripping Student AidBy M.H. MillerTo pay for community college these days, the average student still has to cobble together funds — through Pell Grants and other government, institutional and possibly family support, while often holding down one or more jobs, according to new reports by the College Board on college costs […]

November 17, 2004

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FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation

FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The American Bar Association has granted provisional accreditation to the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law. The College of Law will have an enrollment of 300 students this fall. The ABA’s announcement means that FAMU students will now be able to sit for Florida’s state […]

September 8, 2004

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Knowledge Is Power

Knowledge Is PowerDouble the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented YouthEdited by Richard Kazis, Joel Vargas and Nancy HoffmanHarvard Education Press, 2004, 280 pp., $54.95 library, ISBN 1-891792-23-7; $28.95 paperback ISBN 1-891792-22-9Only 25 percent of U.S. high school students complete any college degree. Among African American youth, only 18 percent earn a baccalaureate by age […]

July 28, 2004

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Where the Boys Aren’t

Where the Boys Aren’t The decline of Black males in colleges and universities has sociologists and educators concerned about the future of the African American communityBy David HefnerWhen sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote these words more than 100 years ago, life in America was infinitely different for Blacks. For all its evils, segregation offered the […]

June 16, 2004

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Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional Excellence

Placing Diversity at the Core Of Institutional ExcellenceIn its Oct. 23, 2003, publication, Black Issues In Higher Education identified the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as one of a group of universities that have made progress in recruiting and retaining ethnically diverse faculty. As gratifying as that recognition is, it speaks to only part of […]

February 25, 2004

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Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow

Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]

September 24, 2003

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The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing

The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]

June 19, 2002