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Community Colleges

On the Road to Reauthorization

On the Road to ReauthorizationWith the Higher Education Act up for reauthorization, the fate of student aid and the future of colleges’ regulatory independence is uncertainAs Congress returns to work this month, it has plenty on its plate, but all eyes and hopes in higher education will be pinned on the reauthorization of the legislative […]

September 24, 2003

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More Money Spent on Prisons Than on College, Group Says

More Money Spent on Prisons Than on College, Group Says MESA, Ariz.An education advocacy group says Arizona spends too much money operating prisons and too little money helping minorities earn college diplomas. “Arizona now spends more money to incarcerate its Latino population than it does to educate them,” says Joel Foster, a member of the […]

April 23, 2003

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Raising the Spotlight on Affordable Housing Despite research

Raising the Spotlight on Affordable Housing Despite research illustrating the presence of an acute affordable housing crisis, the issue remains below the national radar, experts sayBy Ronald RoachTo Dr. Victoria M. Basolo, a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Irvine, the desire to play a part in making sure all Americans have adequate […]

December 18, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic Hope

Virginia Technology Center Seen as Economic HopeBy Ronald Roach Danville, Va.In Virginia, the decline of the tobacco and the textile industries has led to hard economic times in the state’s southernmost counties known as southside Virginia. In addition to high unemployment, the largely rural region struggles with low educational attainment among its residents. Just 5 […]

November 20, 2002

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Nominee for Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights May Face Opposition from Affirmative Action Advocates

Nominee for Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights May Face Opposition from Affirmative Action Advocates  President Bush’s new choice to head the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is an African American who has conservatives’ support but who may face opposition from groups that favor affirmative action.Bush in late June nominated Gerald Reynolds, […]

July 18, 2001

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FAMU President Recommended to Head Black College Advocacy Group

FAMU President Recommended to Head Black College Advocacy GroupBy David HefnerSILVER SPRING, Md.Less than a month after his resignation as president of Florida A&M University, Dr. Frederick Humphries has been recommended to lead the nation’s foremost advocacy group for Black colleges and universities.Humphries has been recommended to become president of the National Association for Equal […]

April 11, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

March 1, 2000