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Project Empowerment

Cal State system partners with PIQE to educate parents about preparing their children for college.

Community Colleges

N.C. Community Colleges President Defends Undocumented Immigrant Policy

RALEIGH, N.C. — The president of the state community college system won’t back down from a new policy that allows Undocumented Immigrants to enroll on all campuses, saying that doing otherwise runs counter to a nearly 50-year-old tradition of open admissions.

Black Male Initiative Conference Yields Best Practices

ATLANTA Five years after the University System of Georgia started an initiative to boost enrollment of Black males, officials are seeing results, but they also realize more needs to be done.

University of Missouri Campus Can Drop Columbia Designation — Sometimes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The University of Missouri-Columbia campus is keeping the hyphen and everything after it for official purposes. But the Board of Curators for the four-campus system agreed Thursday to let the state’s flagship school go by the University of Missouri for recruitment, fundraising, marketing and intercollegiate athletics.

Black Male Initiative Worth Duplicating

New York City College of Technology’s Black Male Initiative (BMI) program was recently named one of nine U.S. Model Replication Institutions by NASA and the National Science Foundation for its innovative approaches in attacking the problem of Black male student enrollment and retention.

Community Colleges

University Systems Commit to Closing Gap

Black college students earn bachelor’s degrees at nearly half the rate — Hispanic students at nearly less than a third the rate — of White students. Low-income students get their undergraduate degrees at one-eighth the rate of more economically advantaged students.

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Just the Stats: Hispanics Perceive Major Differences in Race-Ethnic Relations in Suburbia

Differences in people’s perceptions on how they are treated by the court system, salespeople and suburban communities are apparent across racial and ethnic lines, according to a new poll recently released by Manhattanville College.

Just the Stats: Hispanics Perceive Major Differences in Race-Ethnic Relations in Suburbia

Differences in people’s perceptions on how they are treated by the court system, salespeople and suburban communities are apparent across racial and ethnic lines, according to a new poll recently released by Manhattanville College.

Leadership & Policy

Southern University Board Picks New Chairman

NEW ORLEANS Myron Lawson was chosen Friday as the chairman of the Southern University System board of supervisors, replacing the former chairman who has been embroiled in sexual harassment allegations.

Community Colleges

Idaho Board of Education to Study Fairness in Dual Credit System

TWIN FALLS Idaho A State Board of Education official says the time may be ripe to re-examine the dual credit system that allows high school students to earn college and high school credit at the same time when they take college-level classes.

Community Colleges

Enrollment Tailing Off in Some Phoenix-area Community Colleges

MESA Ariz. Despite a growing population in Maricopa County, enrollment in the county’s community college system is dropping.

Israeli School System Faces Strike

JERUSALEM Israeli parents aren’t having the usual trouble rousting their teenagers out of bed for school these days: Hundreds of thousands of secondary school students haven’t seen the inside of a classroom for more than a month as their teachers strike.

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