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More Bowl Teams Meet Academic Standards

More bowl-bound Division I football programs are meeting the NCAA’s minimum acceptable academic standards than last year, according to a study released Monday. The report by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida found that of the 64 teams headed for bowls, 73 percent earned recent Academic Progress […]

December 3, 2007

Students

Avila Professor Reaches Out to At-risk High School Students

KANSAS CITY Mo. Tears trickled down Reulan Levin’s face as she read the thank-you letter proof that her caring had helped lift a former student over seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

November 15, 2007

Recruitment & Retention

La. Higher Ed Board Looking at Ways to Restructure State College Spending

BATON ROUGE La. Plans proposed by the state’s higher education governing board to restructure public college funding in Louisiana to reward schools based on their performance rather than enrollment would cost the state about $35 million more annually.

November 12, 2007

Sports

Just the Stats: A Closer Look Into College Basketball

Basketball athletes at Division I universities are bringing in the ‘game,’ but are they making the ‘grade?’ Here, Diverse presents basketball student-athlete graduation rates for NCAA Division I schools and historically Black colleges and universities.

November 11, 2007

Sports

Study: Penn State Athletes Graduating at Record Rate

STATE COLLEGE Pa. Penn State athletes are earning their degrees at a record rate, according to data released Thursday by the university.

November 8, 2007

Students

Hispanic Students Thrive More in Culture of Community, Says Report

Hispanic students tend to succeed more at institutions where there is a culture of inclusiveness and an explicit commitment from the leadership to serve the community, according to a new report from The American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU).

November 6, 2007

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Some South Carolina Schools Work to Shed Nation’s Highest Dropout Rate

CHARLESTON S.C. Takara Perry knows if she had stayed on at St. Johns High School, she would simply have dropped out.

November 4, 2007

Sports

Student Graduation Rate at the University of Arizona Falls Lower

TUCSON Ariz. A new report shows 63 percent of the University of Arizona student-athletes who enrolled in the 2000-01 school year graduated within six years.

October 30, 2007

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Improving High School Graduation Rates A New Federal Priority

WASHINGTON It’s a nickname no principal could be proud of: “Dropout Factory,” a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across the United States.

October 29, 2007

Sports

Just the Stats: HBCU Football Student-Athlete Graduation Rates

Diverse continues its analysis of student-athlete graduation rates, this time focusing on Division I and II football programs at historically Black colleges and universities.

October 17, 2007

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Analysis: More Minority High School Students Graduating in Ohio Big Cities

COLUMBUS Ohio Urban minority high school students, a group that historically has had low graduation and attendance rates in Ohio, now have a better graduation rate than Black and Hispanic students elsewhere in the state, an analysis by a group of school administrators and teachers found.

October 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hispanic graduation rate at the University of Maryland lagging

The six-year graduation rate among Hispanic students at the University of Maryland is lagging behind those of white and Asian students by about 15 percent, university President Dan Mote said in his State of the Campus address this year.

October 8, 2007