Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 81

HBCUs

Grants & Gifts

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY has received a $3.1 MILLION gift from the Monfort Family Foundation to provide support for Monfort scholars and professors and the Monfort Lecture Series, among other things. The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a $30,000 grant as part of the MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award. The college was chosen […]

June 11, 2008

Students

Diversity Themes Feature Prominently at 30th Annual NISOD Conference

“We’re an open-door institution, but not enough African-American men are finding that door,” said Dr. Stephanie Bulger, explaining to NISOD Conference attendees about an ambitious plan the Wayne County Community College District has launched to enroll 1,000 Black men within the next five years.

May 29, 2008

Students

Understanding the “Bling-bling Generation”

Many of the constructs that describe Millennials, or 21st-century young people, also referred to as Generation M, don’t seem to apply to Black undergraduates, according to research in the current National Association of Student Affairs Professionals Journal. Sheltered, indulged, protected. These describe most millennials, but for students of color “these factors have been at best […]

May 28, 2008

Latinx

Work Life and Identity Issues in Hispanic Youth Are Focus of Study

Education is the primary route to security for children of ethnic minorities, a University of Arizona professor concludes in a study that his publisher says is the most-extensive ever done on Hispanic youth.

May 27, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Forming a Pipeline To the Presidency

Many efforts have helped increase the number of women and ethnic minorities in college presidencies, but Asian Americans have not kept pace.

May 14, 2008

Students

Report Measures Levels of Campus Inclusivity at Three Colleges and Universities

Intolerance, threats and verbal insults pervaded the campuses of three predominately White institutions, the University of California, Berkeley, Michigan State University, and Columbia College, according to a student survey in the recently released report, “If I’d Only Known.”

May 7, 2008

Community Colleges

Perspectives: Banning Affinity Groups Shows Lack of Understanding

On most college campuses, the term “self-segregation” only applies when students of color choose to establish associations. Self-segregation is itself a political, ideological and racialized term. Thus, this attempt in Arizona to legislate integration shows a stupendous lack of understanding of the fraud that often masquerades as campus diversity efforts, as well as the reality of the experience of many racial minority students on predominantly White campuses.

April 20, 2008

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

April 16, 2008

Students

University of California Makes Room for Record 60,000 Freshmen

The University of California has accepted a record 60,008 California residents as freshmen for the coming fall despite worries that cuts in state funding could lead to overcrowded campuses and tuition increases, officials said Monday.

April 15, 2008

Students

DIVERSIFYING FACULTY IN ILLINOIS

A revamped initiative aims to increase minority faculty numbers throughout the state.

April 2, 2008

Faculty & Staff

A ‘Patron Saint’ for Chicago State University

Long-neglected Chicago State University has a powerful friend in the Illinois Legislature, and the school is not even in his district.

April 2, 2008

Leadership & Policy

A ‘Historical Problem’

Southern Illinois University Carbondale fares well on its hiring of minority administrators, but it is being taken to task for the lack of women in its executive ranks.

April 2, 2008