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Students

Veterans, Elected Officials Fight to Make Post-9/11 Benefits More Accessible

In recent months, some elected officials and veterans groups have expressed concern over added restrictions and reported difficulties in obtaining the benefits.

November 30, 2014

Faculty & Staff

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Professors Examine Winter Driving

People who were perfectly fine driving on snow at the tail end of winter go sliding all over the streets and highways when the first snowfall makes things slippery the next winter.

November 26, 2014

African-American

TMCF, University of Phoenix Announce New Blended Learning Partnership

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund and University of Phoenix recently announced a partnership to offer online courses to students at HBCUs across the country.

November 16, 2014

Students

Asheville-Buncombe Tech Finds STEM Recruitment Success by Refocusing Message

With an NSF grant of nearly $200,000, which the college received in the fall of 2012, A-B Tech Community College was able to bring up the number of women in targeted STEM programs from 39 to 75, nearly doubling their numbers.

November 12, 2014

Students

Sex-Assault Program Expands to High Schools

CONCORD, N.H. ― The University of New Hampshire is expanding its nationally recognized sexual violence prevention program to a younger audience: high school students in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

November 11, 2014

Home

Army Trauma Expert Quit After Admitting Ph.D. Fraud

An Army statistician obtained a security clearance and worked for years on sensitive battlefield trauma research while lying about holding advanced degrees, the Army has acknowledged.

November 11, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Fordham University Writing Workshop Helps Vets Get Memories on Paper

Veterans from World War II through Iraq and Afghanistan gather Tuesdays at Fordham University to tap their memories of military life and commit them to paper for posterity.

November 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Sean Decatur

Sean M. Decatur became president of Kenyon College in July 2013 after serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oberlin College. As an assistant professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, he helped establish a top research program in biophysical chemistry. Decatur has been a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute […]

November 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Future of HBCUs May Rest on Adopting a Growth Mindset

Instead of asking deficit-oriented questions, we should change our mindset and ask new questions to uncover how HBCUs are supporting students despite the challenges they encounter.

November 9, 2014

Students

Diverse On The Go

Diverse Co-Founder Frank Matthews will be the featured speaker at the luncheon today at the 2014 Alabama Association of Higher Education Diversity Officers (ALAHEDO) Conference in Tuscaloosa.

November 4, 2014

Leadership & Policy

Diverse Down The Road

Diverse Senior Writer Jamal Eric Watson will be participating in the International Conference on Urban Education at Montego Bay, Jamaica this week. The conference is Thursday through Sunday. Advertising Manager Jae McCadden and Ralph Newell, Vice President for Business Development & Technology, will represent Diverse at the 2014 STEMtech Conference in Denver from Sunday through Wednesday, Nov. 12.

November 3, 2014

Students

Many For-Profit Institutions Do Little to Benefit Students

Many for-profit institutions leave students with substandard educations, useless degrees and a large amount of debt.

November 2, 2014