Tag: Diversity: Page 144

Students

Will.i.am.-backed College Track’s 10-year Plan Working for Students

The California-based nonprofit provides college advising, academic and financial support to first-generation college students over a period of 10 years, starting the summer before 9th grade.

December 26, 2016

Students

Teachable Moments: For Colleges, the Future of Coaching is Now

In project-based learning courses where students tackle open-ended problems, teachable moments do not occur on schedule.

December 22, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Hampton U. President Harvey Sharing His Principles for Leadership

Dr. William Harvey, 75-year-old higher education icon, has pulled together the core of his leadership strategy in his first book, set for release early next year.

December 22, 2016

Students

Colleges Debate Taking On ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Designation

In public statements and letters, college leaders argue that the concept of a sanctuary campus has no basis in law and that, ultimately, institutions will be required to follow immigration laws.

December 22, 2016

Students

University of Nebraska Starts Institute to Create Businesses

OMAHA, Neb. — The University of Nebraska’s Omaha campuses are opening a new institute to create businesses out of academic ideas. UNeTech is a partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska Medical Center, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The partnership’s executive director Dr. Rod Markin said UNeTech will be part […]

December 22, 2016

Health

Researchers: Nearly 400 Drug Addicts Helped in Police Effort

BOSTON — A novel drug addiction program developed in a small Massachusetts fishing town and since replicated in dozens of cities nationwide was able to place almost 400 addicts into treatment nearly each time they sought it during the first year of operation, researchers say in a report being published Thursday in the New England […]

December 22, 2016

Students

How a Rural Community College Embraces Diversity

Outside the large urban areas, many of us in the United States live in areas where most people around us look, speak, and act like we do.

December 21, 2016

Students

Diverse Conversations: 3 Trends That HBCUs Must Embrace

Three trends that struggling HBCUs must embrace to remain viable in an ever-evolving higher education landscape.

December 21, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Things in 2016 That Make These 2 Black Faculty Members Go Hmmmm

We found ourselves going hmmm in wonderful 2016 with all its post-modern, post-racial, 21st century glory, making America great—for some people — rhetoric.

December 21, 2016

Home

ETS Seeking to Erase Educational Disparities

The largest, private, nonprofit testing organization, ETS, is working to eliminate educational disparities within underserved communities.

December 21, 2016

Leadership & Policy

George Mason President Angel Cabrera to Serve as Fed Director in Richmond

FAIRFAX, Va. — George Mason University President Angel Cabrera has been elected to serve as a director for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Cabrera, who will continue to serve as GMU’s president, will begin his new duties with the Fed in January. He will be one of nine directors for the Richmond bank. The […]

December 21, 2016

Students

Walker calls ‘Whiteness’ Class at University of Wisconsin ‘Goofy’

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker says a University of Wisconsin-Madison calls titled “The Problem is Whiteness,” is “goofy” and “unusual,” but he’s stopping short of saying it should put UW’s funding in jeopardy. Walker’s comments came after two Republican state lawmakers threatened to pull funding for UW if the class wasn’’t canceled. Rep. Dave […]

December 21, 2016