Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 84

STEM

Project Empowerment

Cal State system partners with PIQE to educate parents about preparing their children for college.

December 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Championing Equity and Inclusion

In a newly created position, Dr. Gibor Basri first seeks to create a welcoming environment for UC-Berkeley’s historically underrepresented minorities.

December 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Second Annual Black, Brown & College Bound Conference Held In Florida

TAMPA, Fla. — Community college educators from as far as Washington state and the Bahamas descended on Tampa, Fla., last week for the second annual Black, Brown & College Bound Conference. Hosted by Hillsborough Community College and nine other Florida two-year institutions, BBCB featured numerous tracks dedicated to examining and removing barriers to college for young Black and Hispanic males.

December 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Experts To Study Campus Climate, Hiring Practices at UC Riverside

In an effort to address campus diversity complaints from minority faculty, students and alumni, the University of California, Riverside has invited three outside scholars to review faculty hiring policies and investigate the treatment of minority students within the Graduate School of Education.

December 4, 2007

Students

Diversity Debate Shakes Up Quiet Liberal Arts Campus

GRANVILLE, Ohio Nooses on a poster advertising a Halloween singing concert set off two weeks of debate and protest at Denison University, a largely White liberal arts campus. The college choir, which had invited students to “come hang with us,” removed the posters, canceled the concert and turned the event into a forum on discrimination. But some students say the ad was the last straw and exposed an ugly side to this expensive university situated in a quaint central Ohio town.

November 29, 2007

Students

Growth In Minority Student Enrollment Gives Rise To More MSIs

More minority undergraduate students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities than ever before, and more of them are choosing minority-serving institutions such as historically Black colleges and universities, Asian-serving institutions and Hispanic-serving institutions.

November 27, 2007

Students

In Brief: Schools Chief Tells Principals No Assemblies for Ethnic Groups

Complaints about a meeting to improve Black and Hispanic test scores leads to mandate to end assemblies for ethnic groups; the incidence of hate crimes rose 8 percent last year, according to FBI; Jackson State University student is missing.

November 20, 2007

Students

HEA Renewal Approved, With Some Surprising New Policies

Provisions of the Higher Education Act renewal approved by a House committee on Thursday includes year-round Pell Grants allowing students flexibility in enrollment schedules, a requirement that colleges report their reasons for increasing tuition for students and creation of an international education czar at the U.S. Department of Education.

November 14, 2007

HBCUs

University of Houston Has a Beehive Jam

HOUSTON Most folks probably think Texans would have a simple way to handle a major insect infestation: Kill them varmints.

November 14, 2007

HBCUs

From the Classroom to the Boardroom

When Thurgood Marshall College Fund officials discovered that corporations were not recruiting students at Black colleges as aggressively as students enrolled in traditionally White institutions, they sought a solution.

November 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

With Record-breaking Attendance, Annual SREB Conference Addresses Recruitment, Retention of Minority Faculty

ARLINGTON, VA. Hundreds of doctoral candidates, faculty and university administrators converged on Arlington, Va., last week for the 14th annual Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, a three-day conference on teaching and mentoring hosted by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), an educational advocacy organization based in Atlanta.

October 28, 2007

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Campaigning for College

Texas’ Closing the Gaps initiative pays close attention to the demographics of its growing minority communities.

October 16, 2007