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Sports

Blacks Playing Men’s Hoops, Football Lag Behind in Degrees

PHILADELPHIA ― Young Black men playing basketball and football for the country’s top college teams are graduating at lower rates than Black male students at the same schools ― despite having financial and academic support that removes common hurdles preventing many undergraduates from earning a degree, a new report has found. While 58 percent of […]

March 15, 2016

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Acuña Accepts John Hope Franklin Award at ACE

SAN FRANCISCO — Last night, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña, the founder of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, accepted Diverse’s 2016 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award at the 98th American Council on Education Annual Meeting. Notably, at the height of the civil rights movement, Acuña, […]

March 14, 2016

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9 Research Universities Receive Grants to Retain Low-income Students

Nine public urban research universities were awarded a total of $450,000 to launch or expand pilot “micro-grant” programs meant to prevent low-income college students from dropping out.

March 14, 2016

African-American

11 Higher Ed Institutions Uniting to Boost Minority Students’ Grad Rates

Eleven institutions of higher education are joining an Education Trust-led initiative meant to improve graduation rates for underrepresented minority students.

March 10, 2016

Sports

NCAA to give $200M to Members for Athlete Benefits

INDIANAPOLIS ― The NCAA will distribute an extra $200 million to Division I schools in the spring of 2017 to be used by members for funding benefits for athletes. The NCAA announced Thursday that its board of governors had approved the one-time supplemental distribution. Athletics departments can use the money to help pay for full-cost-of-attendance […]

March 10, 2016

Women

White Privilege Undermines Diversity in Higher Education

Beyond institutionalized and internalized racism and classism, there is a cloud of entitlement that weighs heavy like a dense fog: White privilege.

March 8, 2016

Students

Program Launched to Increase Study Abroad at MSIs

The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) has teamed up with CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange to launch a three-year strategy to increase study abroad at minority-serving institutions (MSIs).

March 3, 2016

Students

Kappa Sigma Chapter Sues Purdue University Over Sanctions

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ― Purdue University is being sued by its Kappa Sigma chapter over allegations that the school unfairly sanctioned the campus fraternity following an incident involving an underage student’s alcohol consumption. The lawsuit filed last Friday in Tippecanoe Circuit Court alleges that the university didn’t allow the fraternity to fully defend itself against […]

March 3, 2016

African-American

Xavier Ushers in a New Era

Hundreds of individuals crowded into the Convocation Center on Friday morning to watch as Dr. C. Reynold Verret was inaugurated as the sixth president of Xavier University of Louisiana.

February 26, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Despite Headlines, PWIs Need not Stop Preaching

Faith-based PWIs can salvage their reputations even while sticking to their values when encountered with differences.

February 24, 2016

Students

Florida State Frat Suspended Following Hazing Investigation

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ― Florida State officials have suspended the school’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity following a police investigation into hazing allegations. The university reported in a news release Wednesday that the complaint was filed in January through the school’s hazing website. The TKE member said pledges were forced to participate in a drinking game called […]

February 24, 2016

Students

Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Home for the In-betweeners

HSIs are best suited to advance Latino/a students as they provide support, culturally responsive learning environments and, most important, a home for the in-betweeners.

February 21, 2016