Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 96

Students

Black Colleges Diversifying By Recruiting More Hispanics

ATLANTA Squeezed by stiff competition for their traditional students, historically Black colleges are making a push to recruit Hispanics.

August 2, 2006

Students

Perspectives: To Close the Achievement Gap, Start By Analyzing and Using Campus Data

To address persistent student achievement gaps, colleges and universities must routinely collect and analyze data that track the progression of students from middle school through college, and use those findings to develop ways to better meet students’ needs.

August 1, 2006

Students

University of Arkansas Launches Ad Campaign for Hispanics, Blacks

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. In arguably one of the boldest attempts to deliberately recruit a specific demographic group, the University of Arkansas has approved a $300,000 marketing initiative to attract larger numbers of African-American and Hispanic students to the state’s flagship university.

July 31, 2006

Students

Diversifying the Economists

With a flair for math, Janelle Jones won a NASA scholarship to Spelman College…

July 19, 2006

Students

Diversifying the Economists

With a flair for math, Janelle Jones won a NASA scholarship to Spelman College…

July 12, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Doctoral Program Produces 300th Minority Graduate

A program created in 1993 to stem the shortage of minority faculty at university campuses, especially in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines, has recently produced its 300th Ph.D.

July 5, 2006

Students

The Struggles of Foreign-born Faculty

The Struggles of Foreign-born Faculty Conflicts between African and African-American professors must be addressed…

June 28, 2006

Home

U-Wisconsin Grapples With a Sex Case that Strikes a Racial Nerve

Paul Barrows, the beleaguered University of Wisconsin administrator accused in 2003 of sexual harassment, just wants his embarrassing case to end. After two years of negative headlines invoking race, politics, university spending, and indecent relations, one would think that the university administration would like it to end, too.

June 20, 2006

Home

Just the Stats, with Olivia Pullman: The Effects of Race Neutral Admissions, Part II – Graduate Enrollment

Last week Diverse looked at minority undergraduate enrollment in the three states that employ race-neutral college enrollment strategies — Texas, Florida and California. This week, we see how these states fair in graduate school enrollment of students of color.

June 7, 2006

HBCUs

One on One With Charles Greene

In an era of declining state funding for higher education, the role federal appropriations play in maintaining and developing the…

May 31, 2006

International

Survey: CEOs Fear International

Chief executive officers of the country’s 100 fastest-growing science and technology companies fear international companies…

May 31, 2006

Faculty & Staff

California Taskforce Finds UC Faculty Still Not Diverse

All 10 University of California campuses need to make diversity an integral element of academic planning, faculty hiring, research agendas, curricular development and program reviews, a taskforce on improving faculty diversity recommended Tuesday.

May 23, 2006