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Leadership & Policy

Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement

U.S. Education Department under secretary is driving the Obama administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

December 1, 2009

HBCUs

ACCELERATING AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Martha Kanter, the U. S. Education under secretary, is driving the administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

November 25, 2009

Sports

The Unfinished Business of HBCUs

Public historically Black colleges and universities have served the under-represented well in the years since Adams v. Richardson, but states can no longer continue to underfund HBCUs if these schools are to become “comparable and competitive” with traditionally White institutions, a panel of former and current HBCU leaders concluded Thursday at a conference at Morgan State University.

November 12, 2009

Native Americans

Tribal Leaders: ‘We Need to be Respected’

Before the largest gathering of tribal leaders in U.S. history Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged $50 million in funding for tribal colleges and vowed his administration would work to address problems facing Native Americans, from health disparities to economic development.

November 5, 2009

Students

Obama Community College Proposal May Not Be Enough

President Barack Obama wants to invest some $12 billion in community colleges with the aim of seeing an additional 5 million students graduate by 2020.

November 1, 2009

Students

LASTWORD: PREPPING FOR THE PROFESSORIATE

Professional development mentoring, for the professoriate, is a postsecondary tool that can be used by graduate faculty to complement graduate students’ formal doctoral level course work.

October 14, 2009

HBCUs

Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges

An avalanche of funding is expected after a slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.

October 1, 2009

HBCUs

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges

An avalanche of funding is expected after slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.

September 30, 2009

Students

Black College Advocate Questions Funding Formula for Southern University Campuses

While serving as an appointee on a panel examining ways to overhaul Louisiana public college systems, the president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education questioned whether state funding practices are fair to the historically Black schools

September 30, 2009

Latinx

WASHINGTON UPDATE: Community Colleges To Benefit from New Higher Ed Bill

Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.

September 16, 2009

Latinx

Community Colleges To Benefi t from New Higher Ed Bill

Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.

September 16, 2009

Students

LEGAL BATTLES CONTINUE IN FIGHT FOR EQUITY IN MARYLAND HIGHER EDUCATION

In an ongoing struggle to right past wrongs, lawyers, community activists and students are awaiting their chance in court to make all Maryland universities equal and to reverse policies they say serve to weaken HBCUs.

September 2, 2009