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New National Campaign Launched To Boost High School Graduation Rate

A group of representatives from the Campaign for High School Equity coalition unveiled the campaign’s new “Plan For Success” while urging lawmakers to take more decisive steps toward addressing the nation’s high dropout rate.

June 7, 2011

Community Colleges

Mississippi Community Colleges Keeping More Students

A record increase in the number of new students in Mississippi’s community colleges translated this spring into a record number of degrees.

June 6, 2011

Students

Pell Institute Releases Research on DeVry

In an effort to distinguish itself within the embattled for-profit college sector, DeVry Inc. presented research that portrays the company as using effective student-centered practices for helping low-income students.

May 11, 2011

HBCUs

U.S. Higher Education Confronts Historic Financial Challenges, Part II

Diverse convened an expert panel to dissect the financial condition of public and private institutions. This is the second installment of a two-part series.

May 11, 2011

African-American

International Outreach Undertaken by Thurgood Marshall College Fund Schools

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund has launched an International Collaboration Group (ICG) as part of an extensive global outreach effort by public HBCUs represented by the fund.

May 9, 2011

Students

La. Gov. Bobby Jindal Defends SUNO/UNO Merger in House Committee

Merging historically Black Southern University at New Orleans with the largely White University of New Orleans would give students better educational opportunities, Gov. Bobby Jindal told a Louisiana House committee.

May 4, 2011

Students

Race Complaints Persist With La. Governor Jindal’s Plan To Merge Schools

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposal renews a politically and racially charged argument that pops up periodically in the roughly 20 states that have public, four-year institutions known as historically Black colleges and universities.

April 27, 2011

Leadership & Policy

University of the West Indies Team Triumphs at HBCU Business Plan Competition

More than 300 students from 21 historically or predominantly Black colleges competed, presenting business proposals that ranged from construction and land surveying improvements to the mass production of Jamaican ginger.

April 17, 2011

Sports

Candid Race Talk Launches College Sports Symposium

Expert panelists detailed how lucrative college sports competition have led many to ask whether athletes in men’s basketball and football programs are exploited while others profit immeasurably.

April 13, 2011

Students

Arkansas Near Bottom in U.S. College Degrees Earned

A report by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education indicates fewer than 38 percent of those who entered the state’s public universities in 2004 had earned a degree within six years.

April 11, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Debate Over Relevance of HBCUs Opens 37th NAFEO Conference

The president of Morgan State University uses NAFEO luncheon discussion to announce the school has won a contract to help manage research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, signaling how one historically Black university competes at the highest levels in science.

April 5, 2011

Students

Study: Southern Regional Education Board States Lag Behind in Completion Rates

Nationwide, 29 percent of White adults have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 27 percent in SREB states.

April 3, 2011