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Nursing Program Aims To Train Minority Students for Service in Rural Areas

Built on more than a year of outreach and recruitment at minority-serving institutions, the federally funded PRIDE program has attracted 26 students to Frontier Nursing University who are training as either nurse practitioners or nurse midwives.

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College Faculty Lauded for Excellence, Work in Promoting College Goal

Assistant U.S. Secretary for Postsecondary Education Eduardo Ochoa delivered the keynote talk at U.S. Education Department event that honored top U.S. college and university faculty members.

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APLU Panel Addresses Challenges of Minorities Enrolled in STEM Fields

Despite growing public awareness and collective efforts to increase the ranks of U.S. minority college students seeking degrees in STEM fields, their supporters and advocates still struggle with many of the same issues today as they did several decades ago, a panel of educators says.

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Improved Minority Teacher Recruitment Tied to Increasing Alternative Certification Programs

A Center for American Progress panel discussion on Wednesday sought to elevate the discussion on the merits of making America’s K-12 teaching force more diverse.

Lumina Foundation Launches Latino College Completion Initiative

The Lumina Foundation is giving organizations and colleges that are building a pipeline of Latino students and promoting college completion a boost with a four-year, $600,000 grant for each institution.

Professor Honored for His Work in Unearthing Treasures From Spain’s Golden Age

Dr. Ralph DiFranco excavates libraries and literary collections in the U.S. and abroad, digging for forgotten poetry and ballads from Spain’s Golden Age.

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College Prep Summer Programs Target Talented, Low-Income Students

Elite colleges team up to give talented yet impoverished youths the skills necessary to apply, gain admission and thrive at the nation’s most selective higher education institutions.

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National Report Card Shows Only a Third of Country’s Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Proficient in Reading and Math

The numbers were even more dire for African-American and Hispanic students, whose proficiency rates ranged from 24 percent to as low as 13 percent.

Latino Education Summit Convened, 2011 Obama Scholars Named by Hispanic Scholarship Fund

The Obama Scholars program was created after President Barack Obama donated $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund from his Nobel Peace Prize award in 2009.

Congressman John Conyers Urges Hearings on College Sports

The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee is urging the panel to hold hearings on antitrust and other issues in college sports, including the recent series of conference realignments.

Univision Calls Latinos to Action with “Educate Yourself, the Moment Is Now” Campaign

On Oct. 16, Univision Networks kicked off, “Edúcate, Es el Momento” (Educate Yourself, The Moment Is Now), a seven-day multiplatform initiative to promote Hispanic educational attainment.

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Groups Mobilize To Stop Cuts for Minority-Serving Schools

Many of the nation’s leading higher education groups are urging Congress to reject a House of Representatives plan that would cut spending for Black, Hispanic-serving, tribal and other minority-serving colleges by more than 40 percent next year.

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