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Students Are Shunning Technology’s Fast Track

WASHINGTON Forget starting salaries above $40,000 and a choice of companies come graduation day. Freshmen may be toting laptops and chatting by e-mail, but they’re shunning majors that would put them on a fast track for computer jobs.

July 14, 2007

A United Way

Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation

July 14, 2007

Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment

JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.

July 12, 2007

Trouble Along The Science Pipeline

Perhaps the most commonly cited barrier to African American students being chosen by the most competitive colleges and universities for admission into science and engineering programs is their performance on standardized college entrance exams, namely the SAT and ACT.

July 12, 2007

March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access

Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.

July 11, 2007

A measurement of what?; although “reliably constant,” experts say standardized test scores are often misunderstood and misused – related articles on college tests – Cover Story

Earlier this year at a gathering with members of the press, the presidents of a handful of top research universities were discussing their commitment to diversity. As if with one voice they said standardized test scores play only a small part in their admissions process. Their institutions, they pronounced, are virtually disinterested in SAT and ACT scores.

July 11, 2007

SAT, ACT scores increase: higher scores attributed to more rigorous coursework

Students who take more academic courses do significantly better on the SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement tests.

June 22, 2007

Merger no longer a threat for Mississippi Valley State

Over the years as the fate of a small, Black, rural institution unfolded in and out of the court, business was as usual as it could have been at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 17, 2007

Pushing The Debate Over the Usefulness of ACT and SAT

In a report released this week, the National Association for College Admission Counseling tries to promote public dialogue about the real purpose and usefulness of ACT and SAT college entrance exams. The report urges colleges to do research that shows whether test scores — and other admission criteria — predict student performance.

February 21, 2007

Wisconsin Regents Consider Rewriting Admissions Policy To Include Race, Income

MADISON, Wis. A proposed rewrite of the freshmen admissions policy for the University of Wisconsin System would de-emphasize class rank and give greater weight to nonacademic factors such as race and income.

December 4, 2006

Drawn Out of the Game

The way today’s legislators draw political boundary lines reminds Deralyn Davis of the kinds of obstacles that kept Blacks from voting back…

October 11, 2006

Drawn Out of the Game

The way today’s legislators draw political boundary lines reminds Deralyn Davis of the kinds of obstacles…

October 4, 2006

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