Ya-Marie SesayStudentsAmbar Sees Her Achievements as Paths to Empowering OthersDr. Carmen Ambar, named last week as the first African American president in Oberlin College’s 184 years of existence, said that making history is affirming to African American children that they can do anything.June 6, 2017Students63 Years after Brown, Segregated Schools Fight Takes Interesting TurnBrown vs Board of Education removed the barrier of denying people of color their right to an education, but 63 years later the fight to ensure that students attend a “good school” continues.June 1, 2017StudentsAdvocates View HBCUs’ Future WarilyTMCF President Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. suggested that HBCUs and their advocates need to begin planning what the institutions need to look like 50 years from now, to ensure they are keeping up with the constant changes in the generations to come.May 29, 2017African-AmericanExperts See Early STEM Exposure as Key to Fortifying CybersecurityIf students were exposed to STEM earlier in life, the nation’s cybersecurity could be improved, a U.S. Congresswoman said Thursday at a forum called “Defending The Web.”May 18, 2017Community CollegesFoxx Aims to Modernize Career and Technical EducationU.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx said society should not look down on Career and Technical Education and the federal government should encourage states and local school districts to do more to provide innovative programs that prepare students for technical careers.May 16, 2017StudentsHouse Democrats to Seek Increase in Pell GrantHouse Democrats on Monday said they plan to seek an increase in the Pell Grant to make college more affordable but conceded the increase would only be by a couple hundred dollars.May 15, 2017Previous PagePage 2 of 2
