Tag: Graduation rates: Page 51

Students

Native Sons

Veteran educators return to lead their embattled alma mater, Central State University.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Changing Course

University of the District of Columbia’s president has proposed some radical changes that some worry will send UDC in the wrong direction.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Pride and Peril: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Diverse identifies five threats facing HBCUs and five opportunities that could define their futures.

August 19, 2009

Community Colleges

Many Dallas-Fort Worth graduates struggle in college

They passed their TAKS exit exams and collected their high school diplomas – yet a troubling number of Texas students struggle their first year in college. According to the Dallas Morning News, at some North Texas high schools, half or more of graduates who go to college earn less than a C average their first […]

August 9, 2009

Students

GRANTS & AWARDS

AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Texas) has received a $35,305 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission for 68 scholarships for two camps that provide students handson experience in computer programming and design. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO has received a $260,000 grant from Worldwide, HP for the Lyles College of Engineering to receive wireless tablet personal computers, wide-format […]

July 22, 2009

Students

REPORT: COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES COULD DRAMATICALLY DECLINE

LANSDOWNE, VA. College graduation rates will decline precipitously nationally in the coming years if nothing is done to improve the completion rates of Black and Hispanic students, who represent the fastest growing student populations in colleges and universities.

July 8, 2009

Home

On Accountability – Achieving President Obama’s College Completion Goal

Higher education institutions must answer the call to see more students through to graduation.

June 10, 2009

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College Graduation Rates Could Dramatically Decline, If Minorities Don’t Improve College Completion, Report Says

College graduation rates will decline precipitously nationally in the coming years if nothing is done to improve the postsecondary completion rates of Black and Hispanic students, who represent the fastest growing student populations in colleges and universities, says the latest annual report released by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB).

June 8, 2009

Students

Higher Education Association Blasts Graduation Rate Data Used in Think Tank Report

One week after the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative Washington-based think tank, released a report scrutinizing colleges and universities with low six-year graduation rates, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) issued a policy brief criticizing the way graduation rate information is collected.

June 8, 2009

Students

Report Scrutinizes Colleges With Low Graduation Rates, Including MSIs

Less than 60 percent of new students graduate from the nation’s four-year colleges and universities within six years, according to a new study, and the rate is even lower at most of the historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions included in the study.

June 2, 2009

HBCUs

Black Colleges Will Fight Cut to Federal Program

Leaders of historically Black colleges say they’ll fight a reduction in a federal program they call a financial lifeline at a time of economic distress for the schools and their students.

May 10, 2009

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Flu Fears Prompt Separate Graduations at Slipper Rock University

Slippery Rock University will hold a separate graduation for 22 students who recently returned from Mexico.

April 30, 2009