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Sports

Report: Black Football Players Improve Grades But Still Trail White Counterparts

Academic progress continues for football student-athletes who play in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), but the racial divide continues to widen, according to a new report released Monday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES).

December 8, 2008

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Bill Clinton to raise funds for King Memorial

Organizers of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial say former President Bill Clinton will help raise funds to complete the project planned for the National Mall.

November 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Some Students Take Jagged Path to Graduation

As the nation moves toward a common graduation rate formula based on the number of students who obtain a diploma in four years, students like Jefferson Lara will appear to have fallen by wayside.

November 18, 2008

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Today’s High School Students Less Likely to Graduate Than Their Parents

Young people in the United States are less likely than their parents to earn a high school diploma, and states are not doing enough to reverse this trend, according to a new report released Thursday.

October 23, 2008

Students

Structured For Success

The Multicultural Affairs Office weaves tools for empowering minority students into the fabric of the Wake Forest University community.

October 15, 2008

African-American

Native Roots and a Multicultural Future

Established as a school for American Indians, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke has become the most diverse institution among master’s-granting universities in the state.

October 1, 2008

Leadership & Policy

‘On Fire’ for Bennett: A Conversation With President Julianne Malveaux

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College, recently spoke to Diverse at the end of her first year as president of one of the nation’s only two historically Black colleges for women.

September 15, 2008

Latinx

Woman’s Mission: Keep Hispanic Youths in School

Maria Gonzalez spends Friday evenings in a church basement, surrounded by 30 teens chattering in a mix of English and Spanish, because she has assigned herself a mission: to improve graduation rates and college attendance of Torrington and Winsted’s Hispanic youth.

September 9, 2008

HBCUs

Secretary of State Rice Calls for Investment in HBCUs

With historically Black colleges and universities graduating a significant percentage of Black students who pursue doctoral degrees in medicine, mathematics, science and engineering, we must continue to invest resources into these institutions, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.

September 8, 2008

Students

10 Diversity Champions II

Introducing the “Champions of Diversity” in the Academic Kickoff issue proved a timely reminder of the mission of Diverse during the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of Cox, Matthews and Associates, the founder of the former Black Issues in Higher Education and publisher of Diverse.

September 3, 2008

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Perspectives: Black Males In the Educational Pipeline

In 2008, Americans are at the precipice of a monumental historical moment- the Democratic Party will nominate Sen. Barack Obama as a candidate for President of the United States.

August 12, 2008

Students

Report: Large School Districts Fail at Graduating Black Males

States with a small number of African American students tend to have higher high school graduation rates for Black males than those with large African American student enrollment, according to a report recently released by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

July 29, 2008