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Leadership & Policy

Minority Education Think Tank to Launch Online

A new online education think tank that aims to expand the involvement of people of color in the growing national debate over how best to educate America’s children is being launched this week.

September 12, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Report: Interdepartmental Collaboration Favored as Means to Achieve Organizational Diversity

The American Association for Affirmative Action released a report called “Collaborative Relationships Between EEO/Affirmative Action, Human Resources and Diversity Professionals,” which found that there is interdepartmental collaboration in most organizations to achieve diversity goals.

September 11, 2012

Leadership & Policy

New Document Filing Expected To Boost Fisk University Efforts to Have Accreditation Reaffirmed

Fisk University has filed a monitoring report as part of efforts to persuade a powerful Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accrediting agency to lift the Nashville-based HBCU from probation, a status it has held for nearly two years.

September 11, 2012

Leadership & Policy

Forum: College Degree to Remain Sound Investment in Growing Global Economy

A college degree continues to be a worthwhile investment, but institutions of higher learning must adapt to new realities to remain viable, said panelists at a forum on higher education’s role in the global economy.

September 6, 2012

Leadership & Policy

Youth Summit Brings Democratic National Convention Spirit to Johnson C. Smith

Johnson C. Smith University and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute hosted UFuture: A Summit for Innovative Young Thinkers at the Charlotte-based school.

September 5, 2012

Students

Income-Based Repayment: A Closer Look

President Obama’s plan for more flexible student loan repayment options, unveiled in late October, would allow future borrowers to limit repayments to no more than 10 percent of their discretionary income.

December 4, 2011

Home

Parental Mistakes Can Be Costly

Failing to complete a FAFSA makes little sense especially when families may qualify for maximum federal and possibly state financial awards under the automatic zero Expected Family Contribution (EFC) calculation.

November 14, 2011

Faculty & Staff

College Prep Summer Programs Target Talented, Low-Income Students

Elite colleges team up to give talented yet impoverished youths the skills necessary to apply, gain admission and thrive at the nation’s most selective higher education institutions.

November 3, 2011

Students

Higher Education Analysts Sound Caution on Obama Student Loan Relief Plan

When President Obama touted his two-pronged student debt relief measure before thousands of students Wednesday in downtown Denver, he got rounds of applause.

October 26, 2011

Students

Vermont Law, Long a Holdout, Lifting Military Ban

The policy barring military recruiters dated from the mid-1980s, years before the Clinton administration adopted the policy that became known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” in 1993.

October 4, 2011

Latinx

Veteran Educator Leads John Jay College’s Prison Re-Entry Institute

For roughly 40 years, Ann Jacobs has been helping the formerly incarcerated navigate a post-prison world.

September 18, 2011

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Land-Grant Institutions Alleged to Drift from Their Public Missions

The Education Trust organization reports that as many land-grant flagships strive to keep costs low for students, they have not been as successful in yielding high graduation rates, and, as a result, many students—including high numbers of Blacks and Latinos—fall through the cracks.

August 28, 2011