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Iowa Figures Show Blacks Have Lowest Graduation Rate

IOWA CITY, Iowa A member of the Iowa Board of Regents says a report showing that Black undergraduates are more likely than other minorities to leave the University of Iowa without a degree is cause for concern.

July 14, 2007

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Much Ado About Nothing?

Temple Coach Baffled by Concerns About Athletes’ Lower Graduation Rates

July 14, 2007

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The ill-prepared and the ill-informed – remedial education feud in New York

NEW YORK City Council members presented three community college students here with a special proclamation this month, congratulating them on winning a national chess championship.

July 11, 2007

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“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Committed to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover Story

An often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.

July 11, 2007

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New data book: most African American students want to attend college – African American Education Data Book

FAIRFAX, Va. African American high school students want to go to college as much as White students, but they tend not to be as well prepared, according to statistics gathered by the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of The College Fund/UNCF.

July 11, 2007

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Cause for Action

Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment

July 11, 2007

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Cause for Action

Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment

July 11, 2007

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Arthur Ashe and the next generation of student athletes – Sports Scholars

With all the attention that we have finally come to pay to Arthur Ashe as a pioneering professional athlete and humanitarian it is easy to forget that Ashe was first an incredible college student-athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in the 1960s.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

July 5, 2007

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Wilson proud of Norfolk State’s “X” factor – Norfolk State University president Dr. Harrison B. Wilson

His grandfather on his father’s side was a tenacious Virginia slave Who fought in the Civil War, first for the Confederacy and the Union Army. His grandmother on his mother’s side was educated at Wilberforce University and taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky.

July 5, 2007

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Duquesne’s Grote to transfer to Wright State

FAIRBORN Ohio Scott Grote, who averaged 9.9 points and 4.1 rebounds with Duquesne last season, will transfer to Wright State, the university announced Thursday.

July 4, 2007