Tag: Achievement Gap: Page 37

Faculty & Staff

Can Universities Keep the Minority Students They Woo?

Black and Latino students are, on average, far less likely to graduate in six years than their White and Asian peers.

February 23, 2011

Students

Race Unknown

For a small but growing number of multiracial students, freedom means being able to identify multiple ethnicities, or none at all.

February 20, 2011

Community Colleges

Regaining the Edge in American Higher Education

Can American higher education regain its edge? A group of advocates, policymakers and scholars attempted to answer this question Tuesday during a Washington think tank policy forum.

February 15, 2011

African-American

Southern University at New Orleans Enrollment at Its Highest Since Katrina

Southern University at New Orleans on Wednesday reported its highest enrollment since Hurricane Katrina’s devastating floods in 2005, with enrollment levels nearly where they were before the storm hit.

February 9, 2011

African-American

Southern University New Orleans Chancellor: Low Graduation Rate No Reason To Merge

Hundreds of students, faculty and alumni of Southern University at New Orleans rallied Wednesday to protest a proposed merger of the predominantly Black school with the neighboring University of New Orleans.

January 27, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Louisiana Merger Study Puts Southern University Chief, Katrina-damaged Schools in Spotlight

Ronald Mason, the Southern University System President, is once again caught in the middle of a controversy involving a possible HBCU merger.

January 26, 2011

Home

Perspectives: Inadequate Counseling for Those Who Need It

Too many urban and rural high school students lack access to the counseling necessary to help them prepare and plan for college.

January 6, 2011

Students

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.

January 5, 2011

Students

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.

December 23, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Reinvented New Jersey College Embraces Minority Identity

Faced with changing demographics, Bloomfield College stays true to its mission by embracing its status as a predominantly Black institution.

December 20, 2010

African-American

Civil Rights Commission Report Finds That HBCUs Do a Better Job of Graduating Black STEM Majors

Race-conscious admissions at elite institutions lead to academic “mismatch” for Black students, report says.

December 12, 2010

Students

Graduation Gap Between Black and White College Football Players Said To Be Growing

A sports diversity institute study says there is a “disturbing” and growing gap in the graduation rate between Black and White football players at the vast majority of universities in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

December 6, 2010