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Students

‘Federalizing Accreditation’

Standards may include student outcomes, but should the government or accrediting agencies implement the change?

June 30, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Pa. state universities’ chancellor says she’ll step down in 2008

HARRISBURG Pa. The chief executive of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities gave notice Monday that she plans to resign more than a year from now.

June 24, 2007

Students

If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews

Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.

June 22, 2007

Sports

Holding on to what they’ve got – analysis of programs implemented by six institutions to keep college students in school

A generation ago, when there were more college-age students than there were desks in America’s public and private colleges and universities, making sure that students stayed in school was hardly a priority. Even less exclusive institutions could be selective about which students they admitted and cavalier about those they lost.

June 16, 2007

Latinx

A degree of success – Black students raise Scholastic Assessment Test scores, overcoming ‘stereotype vulnerability’ – Recruitment & Retention

`Stereotype Vulnerability’ Being Overcome As Black Students Raise Their SAT Scores And Collect More Degrees.

June 15, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Prairie View Boosters Petition For University To Leave Texas A&M System

A group of Prairie View A&M University alumni and university donors are petitioning the Texas A&M University System to either address concerns that its regents don’t represent the university’s interests, or let the university secede from the university system.

April 22, 2007

Students

Morehouse Focuses On Character, Retention Through Admissions Interviews

Morehouse is expanding its admissions process to include interviews of all serious candidates. The school says it won’t make a decision on anyone until the prospective student has had a conversation — either in person or over the phone — with a school official or an alumnus who has been through recruitment training.

March 22, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Focusing on the Flight, Not the Plight Of Black Men

The retention of Black men at the collegiate level, within the general context of the “plight” of Black males…

March 21, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

Central State University Makes Pitch for $33 Million Aid Plan

COLUMBUS, Ohio Financially struggling Central State University needs an extra $33 million in state funding to preserve its role as Ohio’s only public historically Black college, its president said this week.

January 18, 2007

African-American

The Evolution of Black Culture Centers

One of the latest projects by the African American Cultural Center at North Carolina State University…

January 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Plan Seeks to Grow Enrollment at Struggling Central State University

Central State University, the only historically Black public institution in Ohio and one of the state’s smallest universities…

December 27, 2006

Community Colleges

Plan Seeks to Grow Enrollment at Struggling Central State University

Central State University, the only historically Black public institution in Ohio and one of the state’s smallest universities, may be hitting a growth spurt if state regents adopt what local papers call a “rescue proposal” for the school.

December 5, 2006