Diverse Issues in Higher Education

A High Court decision striking down race in K-12 admissions could jeopardize race-conscious policies in higher education.The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in two K-12 school assignment cases in its next term has raised serious...

University says it has hired 10 additional Black professors.DURHAM, N.C.Three months after she was chosen to head the committee on race in response to the university's lacrosse scandal, Duke University Professor Karla Holloway threatened to quit, citing...

Calling for more Black students, faculty and programs, Black Student Unions fundamentally changed American college campuses, but did they change themselves in the process?ARMED WITH WELL-HONED LEADERSHIP SKILLS, established organizational techniques...

President of faculty union concerned about the role race may have played in vote.By an overwhelming margin, the Clark College faculty union has passed a no-confidence measure against the two-year school's president, Dr. R. Wayne Branch. Of the 239 full-...

First increase in years is possible because of House support.For years, education advocates looked to a more moderate US. Senate to push for funding increases. But by beating the Senate to the punch by proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant...

Not since students protested South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s has the divestment movement gained such momentum, but can one against Sudan really work?Bowing to student demands to "stop supporting genocide," the University of California regents...

JULY July 15-20 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 97th National Convention "Valuing Our Votes, Voting Our Values" Washington, D.C., Convention Center Contact: Ana Aponte Phone: (410) 580-5780 ...

NEW YORK CITY Five female scientists considered to be leading researchers in the early phase of their careers have received L'Oreal USA 2006 Fellowships for Women in Science. At an awards ceremony earlier this month at the American Museum of Natural...

HAMPTON UNIVERSITY STEPPED HARD ON A CULTURAL NERVE WHEN NEWS OF THE no-braids, no-dreads policy for males in the five-year M.B.A. program leaked out earlier this year. Officials at the university appear to have been blindsided by the negative reactions....

JACKSON, MISS Days after the current hurricane season began, a consortium of academics and community organizers gathered in Jackson, Miss., to confront the likely possibility that Katrina was not their last deadly storm. The need for clear, well-researched...

Some interest rates may increase by 2 percentage points.For Carmen Berkley, an AfricanAmerican student leader with five college loans and some knowledge of the financial aid system, the large increase in student loan interest rates on July 1 is still...

DR. QUINTON BULLOCK has been appointed provost of Tidewater Community College's Virginia Beach campus. He was most recently provost of TCCs Norfolk campus. Bullock earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Prairie View A&M University and a...

TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT OF DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION, hundreds, if not thousands, of students descended upon the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1, 2003, the day the Justices were to hear the University of Michigan's cases on the use of race in college...

LOS ANGELESBlack applicants are being systematically blocked from the University of California system partly because of a flawed admission scheme, according to a new University of California, Los Angeles reportThe admissions process is overly reliant...

WHEN ANY ACADEMIC EMBARKS ON A TEACHING CAREER, HE MUST CONFRONT three challenges--tenure, promotion and recognition. He must be continually evaluated on his ability to teach, conduct research, publish and perform other duties within and around the...

PETERSBURG, VA.Beginning this fall, academically gifted, low-income Virginia State University students will get enough financial aid to cover 100 percent of their college costs.Officials at the historically Black university tout the new program, called...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.Among a group of eighth-graders asked in 1988 what careers they wanted as adults, those reporting a science-related career were two to three times more likely to earn science and engineering degrees than those who didn't indicate...