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Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Seeks To Attract More Minority Hires

Ernst & Young actively recruits at about 200 universities nationwide and partners with the National Association of Black Accountants and other groups to extend its outreach.

Cities Take Up Challenge of Helping Increase College Completion Rates

Cities from Hammond, Ind., and New Haven, Conn., to Denver and Pittsburgh have launched city scholarship programs at a time when the U.S. has fallen from first to ninth place in the world in the proportion of young people with college degrees.

Faculty & Staff

Black Colleges Step Up Pursuit of Sponsored Research

Envisioning a more competitive future, a number of Black college leaders have challenged their faculties to pursue aggressive research agendas.

With High Demand, Pell Grant Program Faces Challenges

Uncertainty about program funding comes as more students take advantage of Pell awards year round.

Mark Kantrowitz

Educational Testing Service Provides a Facelift for the GRE

Updated exam, along with the new Personal Potential Index assessment, is expected to help close the achievement gap for minority graduate school applicants.

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Philadelphia Gets $750K To Improve College Diploma Rate

A local philanthropist gave $750,000 to the city Monday toward its efforts to raise the number of Philadelphians with college degrees, which he said was critical to attracting jobs and businesses.

DREAM Act Blocked in Senate

Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military.

Curriculum Reform at UT-Galveston Medical School Yields Improved Minority Student Board Results

The UT Medical Branch at Galveston has developed an approach that faculty members say have had a remarkable effect on its students’ performance on the medical board exam.

Morehouse medical school president Dr. John E. Maupin, Jr.

College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion

Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.

With Dream Act Shelved, Immigrants Look to 2012

The undocumented immigrants who more than a decade ago were just teens hoping to forge a legal path to citizenship are vowing to make the Dream Act a campaign issue come 2012.

Keeping Latino Religion Scholars Faithful to the Classroom

The Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hispanic Theological Initiative helps Latino doctoral students launch careers as religion scholars.

Garden State Abandons Minority Doctoral Program

New Jersey Legislature defunds the Minority Academic Careers program, making financing doctoral study a heavier burden for minority students.

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