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CU-Boulder Joins National Leadership Alliance

CU-Boulder Joins National Leadership AllianceBoulder, Colo.The University of Colorado at Boulder has become the 29th member of the Leadership Alliance, the premiere coalition of the nation’s top research and teaching institutions seeking to increase the numbers of traditionally underrepresented students in graduate study.“CU-Boulder has a long-term commitment to diversity,” says Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. “Throughout […]

August 15, 2001

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Hefty Loans Don’t Deter Students Bound

Hefty Loans Don’t Deter Students Bound For Graduate Study, Study ShowsAnn Arbor, Mich.Graduate students are paying the price for an education no matter the cost. A new study, led by University of Michigan education Professor Donald E. Heller, finds the amount a student has to borrow for a loan has little to no bearing on […]

August 1, 2001

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Mellon Makes its Mark

Mellon Makes its MarkOver the past 13 years, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has invested $50 million in doctoral programs. Their investment is now paying off as the program becomes one of the premier pipelines for producing minority doctorates. By Ronald Roach DURHAM, N.C.Sheldon Lyke had long harbored ambivalence about getting a doctorate to become […]

July 18, 2001

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Doctoral Dilemma

Doctoral DilemmaAs more African Americans earn their doctorates, a look behind the numbers reveals key areas of concern.By Kendra HamiltonDoctoral graduation rates among African Americans have risen for the sixth consecutive year. And that’s excellent news, say analysts and administrators toiling on the front lines of the battle to increase minority graduate and professional degree […]

July 18, 2001

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Hispanic Educators Call for Record Spending Increases

Hispanic Educators Call for Record Spending IncreasesHispanic higher education leaders earlier this month urged Congress to approve record spending increases targeting the education needs of the nation’s youngest and fastest-growing population.Armed with new Census Bureau reports showing a 60 percent increase in Hispanic population growth during the past decade, presidents and chancellors of colleges and […]

April 25, 2001

Health

Benedict Students Will Be Charged, Prosecutor Says

Benedict Students Will Be Charged, Prosecutor SaysFORT WORTH, TexasMinority Access has named the University of North Texas Health Science Center a “Role Model Institution,” recognizing its efforts in recruiting minority students. The company works with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Minority Research to identify institutions with an exemplary commitment to and success in […]

April 11, 2001

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North Texas Health Science Center

North Texas Health Science Center Recognized for Minority Recruiting EffortsFORT WORTH, TexasMinority Access has named the University of North Texas Health Science Center a “Role Model Institution,” recognizing its efforts in recruiting minority students. The company works with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Minority Research to identify institutions with an exemplary commitment to […]

April 11, 2001

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Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board

Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]

November 8, 2000

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Affirmative Action’s Lost Luster

Affirmative Action’s  Lost LusterWhat’s different about affirmative action this year? Despite some major decisions recently made and some others that are coming up, the issue hasn’t been high on the political radar screen. The last decade saw affirmative action policies in higher education undergo serious retrenchment and heavy political attack from opponents. In 1996, conservative political […]

September 13, 2000

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Teachers College Helped Southern Black Educators

Teachers College Helped Southern Black EducatorsWhen Dr. Wiley Bolden left the army at the end of World War II, he planned to continue his education. He had already received a bachelor’s in chemistry from Alabama State Teachers College (now Alabama State University). As a man of color living in Alabama in the 1940s, Bolden’s choices […]

August 30, 2000

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More Doctorates in the House

More Doctorates in the HouseExperts explain what’s working  in postgraduate programs at HBCUs and TWIsWASHINGTON — The upward trend for African American postgraduate degree attainment remains constant. From 1992-93 through 1997-98, African American master’s degree attainment rose 8.6 percent overall and 9.7 percent at historically Black colleges and universities. Degree attainment for African Americans at […]

July 5, 2000

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Do Major’s Matter?

Do Major’s Matter?There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought-provoking, gut-wrenching and rest-of-your-life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.“Sometimes, even those who have already decided, when you ask them about their major [and how it will affect their job expectations], the answers don’t correspond with what they want […]

April 12, 2000