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Leadership & Policy

College Presidents Seek Debate on Drinking Age

College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.

August 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Fired Bishop State Instructor Ordered Rehired

A fired Bishop State Community College food service instructor who enrolled in his own course has been ordered rehired with back pay by an arbitrator who ruled his dismissal was unfair.

August 10, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Study: Impending Community College Leadership Shortfall Could Be Avoided Through Diversity Efforts

A significant number of community college presidents will be retiring in coming years, creating a leadership void that could be filled through a concerted effort to groom more minorities and women, according to a new report.

August 7, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Education Department Launches Effort to Simplify Aid Formula

The U.S. Department of Education is launching an effort to reform and simplify how college students apply for and receive financial aid.

August 6, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Homeland Security and UT Brownsville Reach Accord on Campus Border Fence

The University of Texas at Brownsville and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reached an agreement this week barring the government from condemning any university land and committing the school to beefing up security along its existing fence, according to wire reports…

August 5, 2008

Faculty & Staff

Men Win Suit Against Scandal-scarred Texas Southern

Three former Texas Southern University students credited with helping expose a spending scandal that led to indictments of top administrators won a retaliation lawsuit against school officials.

August 3, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Former S.C. State University President Suing School

The former president of South Carolina State University filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the school and its trustees last week, accusing board members of acting improperly in his firing last year.

August 3, 2008

Students

Wide-ranging bill aims to rein in college costs

Congress wants to blow the whistle on colleges that raise tuition sharply, while helping students pay less for textbooks and making Pell grants available year-round part of a wide-ranging bill designed to address concerns about rising college costs.

July 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Phoenix Police: College Shooter Was Punched First

The most seriously wounded of three people shot in a community-college computer lab had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police say.

July 30, 2008

Leadership & Policy

New Council at UK Works to Reach More Latino Students

The University of Kansas’s newly formed Latino Vision Council is working to find ways to assist Latinos in gaining access to college.

July 29, 2008

Students

Capturing a Different Picture

The New York Times Student Journalism Institute helps to train a new generation of minority newsroom professionals.

July 23, 2008

Leadership & Policy

A Chat With Southern University Chancellor Kofi Lomotey

Weeks before formally assuming his position as the new chancellor of Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge, Dr. Kofi Lomotey sat down with Diverse to discuss the future of the institution and other historically Black colleges including Fisk University, where Lomotey previously served as executive vice president, provost and professor.

July 22, 2008