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Perspectives: Understanding the I.P.O.D. Generation

To work with the millennials in college classrooms today is to understand them.

September 2, 2008

Latinx

Approved HEA Bill Offers More Aid for Low-income Students

Reauthorized Higher Education Act includes new funding for graduate programs at minority-serving institutions.

August 20, 2008

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Raising a Flag of Resistance

On every major holiday, Maria Landry Ross would display a decorative flag to commemorate the occasion. Unable to find one to commemorate the Dr. Martin Luther King federal holiday or Black History Month, she created one for her personal use. King’s work took on personal significance for Ross on the morning of June 19, 2000, […]

August 6, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Presidential Memoirs

A conversation with outgoing Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy C. Yancy

June 25, 2008

STEM

United States Failing to Produce Next Generation of Scientists, Technology Leaders Say

As interest in science, technology and innovation grows around the world, the United States is failing to produce the next generation of scientists, minority scientists in particular, NACME says.

May 28, 2008

STEM

NACME: Growing ‘Opportunity Gap’ Exists in the Number of Minority Students Pursuing STEM Degrees

Interest among American students of all races and ethnicities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has dissipated over the last several years.

May 1, 2008

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Author Touts Cell Phones as Vital Economic Resource for the Poor

Citing strong evidence that cell phones play a critical role in the economic prospects of low-income Americans, a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in association with a Washington think tank, reports that wider cell phone use could lead to income gains for the poor from $2.9 billion to $11 billion annually by simply allowing the poorest American households to be in touch with potential employers and other job resources.

March 26, 2008

Students

Training Young Leaders to Effect Change Abroad

Despite language barriers and culture clashes, international students participate in U.S. program to help native countries.

March 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Fear of the Known — and Unknown

Just three days before the campus shootings at Northern Illinois University last month, I sat in the morning plenary session at the annual American Council on Education meeting titled “Campus Security, Response and Recovery.” Judging by the number of people that attended the session and the Q&A that followed, campus security post Virginia Tech—and now […]

March 4, 2008

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Course Watch: GMU Offers Class on Wedding Planning

George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., has started offering the first course in the country on wedding planning, now a $160 billion industry in the United States, according to a report by ABC.

March 4, 2008

Students

Emergency Notification in an instant

Following the recent campus shootings, universities are seeking the most effective and multifaceted electronic alert systems from a host of IT companies.

March 4, 2008

Students

Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges

Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.

March 4, 2008