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Students

If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews

Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.

June 22, 2007

Students

… 3,000 and counting – educational aid to underrepresented students

Several years ago, a number of educators, after deciding there were not enough Latinos enrolled in graduate schools around the country, created a program called “Helping 500 U.S. Hispanic Students into Graduate Schools.”

June 19, 2007

Students

Digging deeper for tuition

As if the assault on affirmative action hasn’t produced enough ominous clouds over higher education, the outlook for graduate and professional schools is becoming stormier than ever.

June 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Flowers power – Lawrence and Lamont Flowers, two African American students at Virginia Commonwealth University – Cover Story

Lawrence and Lamont Flowers stand out in a crowd. Rail-thin and topping six feet, the identical twins share a shy streak and a strong bond that’s easy to spot.

June 19, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Best & Brightest: Give Up? No Way

At one point during graduate school at Norfolk State University, Michelle Happer, who was working two jobs and caring for a paralyzed son, came across a book that seemed to speak directly to her: Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?

June 17, 2007

Home

Chairing up: black alumni students endow Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Chair at U of P’s Wharton School of Business – University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia To ensure a permanent African-American presence and establish themselves as major forces in institutional policy-making, African-American students and alumni of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business have raised a $1.25 million endowment for a new Whitney. M. Young Jr. Memorial Chair. It will support the teaching and research activities of scholars of African descent at Wharton.

June 16, 2007

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Faculty Life 101: a survival guide – Recruitment & Retention: The Last Word

Three years ago, we joined the ranks of academe. Diplomas in hand, fresh out of graduate school, we held illusions of a life full of professional growth and intellectual challenges. Little did we realize that the challenges we would face would have little to do with our intellectual abilities. Rather, the challenges would have more to do with developing survival techniques in order to negotiate the perilous currents against which we had to navigate as new Black faculty at a white institution.

June 15, 2007

International

Just the Stats: The Demographics of Universities

Twenty-seven percent of undergraduates at Title IV schools are racial minorities; foreign student enrollment in graduate school (12 percent) is significantly higher than in undergraduate (3 percent); and Blacks generally have the lowest six-year graduation rates of any racial group and have a disproportionately high enrollment in for-profit colleges.

May 24, 2007

International

International Graduate Applications Still Growing at Slow Rates, Says Study

WASHINGTON, D.C. Graduate school applications from international students increased by only 8 percent from 2006 to 2007, after a 12 percent jump last year, reports the Council of Graduate Schools (CSG).

April 15, 2007

Students

New school tech trend creates old school problems

Online admissions applications offer prospective students immediacy and cost savings, but are electronic applications efficient as paper applications?

April 9, 2007

International

Degree Discrimination?

India’s three-year undergraduate degrees seem to provide a solid academic foundation – but there is no consensus among U.S. graduate schools as to whether these degrees are any more or less acceptable than Europe’s “Bologna process” degrees, which are also completed in three years.

March 14, 2007

International

Degree Discrimination?

Last fall, the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., hosted a workshop on the Bologna undergraduate degrees in Europe…

March 7, 2007