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All About the Mission

It’s all about the mission at Berea College. Founded on a utopian dream, Berea has been doing diversity longer than any school in the South.

September 7, 2005

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A One-year Jump in Diversity Comes Only After Many Years’ Effort

Nicole Hernandez arrived at Syracuse University recently for freshman orientation, but she already knew the place well. Story:

September 5, 2005

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Report: U.S. Students More Prepared

Today’s students take tougher courses, achieve at higher levels and earn more college degrees than they did 20 years ago. Story:

August 24, 2005

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U.S. Students Take Tougher Courses, Achieve at Higher Levels, Earn More College Degrees Than in 1980s

Today’s students take tougher courses, achieve at higher levels, and earn more college degrees than they did twenty years ago Story:

August 3, 2005

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Civil Rights Group Claims California’s Minority High-School Dropout Rate Is Inaccurate

California’s high school dropout rates were miscalculated, and more accurate figures show that only half of male… Story:

April 20, 2005

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Study Shows Black, Hispanic College Graduation Rates Still Trailing in California

Study Shows Black, Hispanic College Graduation Rates Still Trailing in CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO A recent study found a significant gap in college graduation rates between Blacks and Hispanics born in California versus Whites and Asian Americans. The study, released recently by the Public Policy Institute of California, found that only 13 percent of Hispanics and 15 […]

March 23, 2005

MSIs

Transformative Connections

Transformative ConnectionsCommunity-based K-12 computing program strives to strengthen academic and career aspirations of its participantsBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAs a relative newcomer to the Saturday afternoons spent working on computers in a community center in Washington, D.C.’s Anacostia neighborhood, Avery Hillmon has his work cut out for him. A participant in the long-running Joint Educational Facilities Inc. […]

February 23, 2005

Disabilties

Kent State Researcher to Look for Clues in Tsunami Sand

Kent State Researcher to Look for Clues in Tsunami SandKENT, OhioAside from the massive tragedy that resulted from a tsunami in South Asia, a research opportunity also suddenly exists for a Kent State University assistant professor of geology who studies tsunami sedimentation. Sand deposits may hold clues for Dr. Andrew Moore, who plans to visit […]

January 26, 2005

African-American

Vanishing Black College Students?

Vanishing Black College Students? A young woman at my church confided in me that she dreams of enlisting in the military. Because we were in church, I simply shuddered and held my tongue, but my face must have told her what I would have liked to say. We talked a few minutes and she shared […]

January 12, 2005

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Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis

Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate CrisisEdited by Dr. Gary OrfieldHarvard Education Press, 2004320 pp., $59.95 library ISBN: 1-891792-54-7; $29.95 paperback ISBN 1-891792-53-9Only half of our nation’s minority students graduate from high school along with their peers. For many groups — Latino, Black or American Indian males — graduation rates are even lower. As […]

January 12, 2005

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2004: A Year in Review

2004: A Year in Review The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education  and, of course, the hotly contested U.S. presidential election were just two of the events that dominated the headlines in 2004. Throughout the year, colleges and universities, as well as other educational institutions across the country, commemorated the Supreme Court’s landmark […]

December 29, 2004

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Bill Cosby and Minority Education: The Truth of the Matter

Bill Cosby and Minority Education: The Truth of the MatterBy Laverne Lewis GaskinsBy now, many people are familiar with the May 17, 2004, controversial comments of Bill Cosby during Howard University’s Brown v. Board of Education commemorative event wherein he spoke about the shortcomings of lower socioeconomic Blacks. While Howard University has not released a […]

December 29, 2004