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Web Tool Allows Search of College Graduation Rates

Web Tool Allows Search of College Graduation Rates WASHINGTONThe Education Trust released an interactive Web tool last month and two reports that challenge the conventional wisdom about college graduation rates.The Web tool, College Results Online, points to glaring disparities in college completion among similar schools.The online tool, found at www.collegeresults.org allows users to select any […]

February 9, 2005

NCAA Passes Landmark Academic Reform Plan

NCAA Passes Landmark Academic Reform PlanGRAPEVINE, TexasCollege sports teams must stay on track to graduate at least 50 percent of their student-athletes to avoid the risk of losing scholarships for a year, under a plan approved by the NCAA Division I board of directors Jan. 10.Teams with a projected graduation rate below 50 percent could […]

January 26, 2005

African-American

Vanishing Black College Students?

Vanishing Black College Students? A young woman at my church confided in me that she dreams of enlisting in the military. Because we were in church, I simply shuddered and held my tongue, but my face must have told her what I would have liked to say. We talked a few minutes and she shared […]

January 12, 2005

Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis

Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate CrisisEdited by Dr. Gary OrfieldHarvard Education Press, 2004320 pp., $59.95 library ISBN: 1-891792-54-7; $29.95 paperback ISBN 1-891792-53-9Only half of our nation’s minority students graduate from high school along with their peers. For many groups — Latino, Black or American Indian males — graduation rates are even lower. As […]

January 12, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Higher Education, College Rankings

Higher Education, College Rankings And Access for Lower-Income StudentsBy Dr. James T. Harris III The 20th century has been called the American Century, and one of its leitmotifs was the great leap forward for millions of Americans from poverty into the middle class. In the 1960s and 1970s, the implementation of the Higher Education Act […]

January 12, 2005

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]

December 1, 2004

Colleges Could Get Financial Awards For Low-Income Graduates

Colleges Could Get Financial Awards For Low-Income GraduatesSANTA FE, N.M.State officials in New Mexico have come up with an idea to encourage universities and two-year colleges to ensure that at-risk students graduate: pay bonuses to schools based on the number of such students earning degrees. The proposal developed by the state Commission on Higher Education […]

November 17, 2004

Report: Minority Students Still Lag Behind In Spite of Improved Fourth-Grade Reading Lessons

Report: Minority Students Still Lag Behind In Spite of Improved Fourth-Grade Reading LessonsPRINCETON, N.J. The overall health of the nation’s fourth-grade reading instruction is good, however, many minority students do not share equally in educational resources, quality teachers, and smaller classes, reports a new Educational Testing Service (ETS) study. The report called, “The Fourth-Grade Reading […]

November 3, 2004

Higher Education Report Card: Many States Fail Affordability Test

Higher Education Report Card: Many States Fail Affordability TestBy Charles Dervarics“Measuring Up 2004: National Report Card on Higher Education” gives many states D’s and F’s on enrollment and affordability issues, in some cases noting the widening gaps that leave low-income students and students of color behind their peers.Compared with 10 years ago, fewer young and […]

October 6, 2004

The Real Deal on Black Unemployment

The Real Deal on Black UnemploymentEvery month, when unemployment rate data are released, the news for African Americans is bleak. No matter what the overall unemployment rate is (5.6 percent in June), the Black unemployment rate is higher. Indeed, it is usually at least twice the White rate. In June 2004, for example, the White […]

August 11, 2004

Reforms Needed to Boost Graduation Rates, Educators Tell Congress

Reforms Needed to Boost Graduation Rates, Educators Tell CongressBy Peggy OrchowskiAmerica’s college graduation rates need a shot in the arm, according to educators who recently discussed the renewal of the Higher Education Act with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Without reforms, the educators agreed, the country’s future is in danger.“Today, (only) 63 percent of students who […]

August 11, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Award-Winning Approaches to Retention

Award-Winning Approaches to RetentionHigher education consulting firm Noel-Levitz recognizes a handful of universities with the most effective retention programsRetaining incoming freshmen is one of the most critical issues colleges and universities face, particularly among minority, poor and first-generation students. Though university retention programs share many similarities, institutions take many different and innovative approaches to best […]

July 16, 2004

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