Tag: Disabilities: Page 21

Faculty & Staff

Rutgers Study: For College Students with Disabilities, Success Linked to Mentoring, Self-Advocacy and Perseverance

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – A Rutgers study of recent New Jersey college graduates with disabilities has found that students attributed their academic success to a combination of possessing strong personality traits as perseverance and their relationship with a faculty or staff mentor.

October 23, 2012

Students

Ind. Scholarship Program Cuts College Visits

MUNCIE Ind. — An Indiana program designed to make college accessible for low-income students has stopped offering tours of college campuses as a result of program cuts. The 21st Century Scholars program was founded in 1990 with the goal of ensuring that every student could afford a college education. It offered low-income middle school students […]

October 15, 2012

African-American

Educator Letting World Know About Contributions of HBCUs

All too often only the most elite institutions garner attention outside the United States. It is time for other countries that want to add value to their students’ lives to look to HBCUs as role models.

October 8, 2012

Disabilties

Alabama Students Looking To Fill Pell Grant Void

Changes to federal eligibility rules for Pell grants have some Alabama students returning to college looking for new ways to pay for classes.

October 8, 2012

African-American

Black Male Incarceration Crisis: Transparency and Education Are Key in Effecting Change

Transparency and education are the best ways to start changing the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights in the United States, concurred a panel of experts at a session at the Seventh Annual Black Male Initiative Conference at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island.

October 7, 2012

Students

Professors Navigate Social Media Boundaries in Providing Effective Counsel to Students

Scholars discuss appropriate social media interaction with students they teach at a Howard University conference September 27-28.

September 30, 2012

Faculty & Staff

Film about Mississippi School Integration Premieres at Barnard College

Forty years after a group of students integrated an all-White high school in Batesville, Miss., they discuss their experiences in a new documentary.

September 18, 2012

Disabilties

Tennessee Educators Seek to Improve College Completion

Tennessee’s higher education leaders are strategizing about how to help more students finish college.

November 2, 2011

Faculty & Staff

CSU-Northridge, UCLA Researchers Try To Harness Brain-Computer Interface Technology for Wheelchairs

The technology has the potential to provide a new degree of freedom to disabled users.

September 20, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Notable African-Americans Urge Commemoration of Black History

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA; Alex Haley, award-winning author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots; Henry Hampton, creator/producer, “Eyes on the Prize” documentary series; and other distinguished individuals discussed the importance of discovering the past, analyzing the present and anticipating the future of African-Americans during a live broadcast to campus audiences across the U.S.

September 1, 2011

African-American

Engineering Universal Access for Learning

Bowie State University is pioneering new ground in understanding the cognitive and psychosocial issues involved in adaptive technology.

May 4, 2011

Disabilties

UCLA Pediatrician Assists in Continuing Relief Efforts in Japan

Because the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent fires consumed many hospitals, Dr. Kozue Shimabukuro and her peers labored in makeshift spaces to bring medical help to injured victims.

April 5, 2011