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Rutgers’ Minority Graduation Rate Doubles in Last Decade
Rutgers’ Minority Graduation Rate Doubles in Last DecadeNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Rutgers University’s graduation rate for minority students has doubled in the last decade, its president said last month. As a percentage of total degrees conferred, minorities accounted for 35 percent of graduates in 1999, up from 17 percent in 1989, president Francis L. Lawrence said. [
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October 11, 2000
Leadership & Policy
NCAA Report Finds Little Diversity In Sports Administration
NCAA Report Finds Little Diversity In Sports AdministrationPercentage of Black athletics directors drops, other positions make little gainsINDIANAPOLIS — Diversity hiring in college athletics is a grand illusion. That’s what the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s latest race report suggests. In college sports, Blacks participate in significant numbers as athletes, but are far less prominent in [
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June 21, 2000
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ACT Reports Lower Dropout, Graduation Rates
ACT Reports Lower Dropout,  Graduation Rates The percentage of freshman college dropouts has declined for the third consecutive year, while the number of students graduating has reached an all-time low, according to a recent report by the American College Testing.Of the students who enrolled in four-year colleges in the fall of 1997, 25.9 percent failed [
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March 29, 2000
Recruitment & Retention
Fortifying The Federal Presence in Retention
Fortifying The Federal Presence in RetentionWith New Legislation on the Table, Observers are Anxiously Watching to See if Federal Backing Can Help Higher Education Retain its Most Vulnerable Students By Charles Dervarics and Ronald RoachWASHINGTON — By and large, the statistics are downright depressing. A look at data from Black Issues’ annual Top 100 degree [
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March 29, 2000
Students
Retention depends on new models of student development
Retention depends on new models of student developmentIn the last decade, there has been a steady increase in the overall enrollment of Black students in higher education. And while enrollment at historically Black colleges in the United States experienced a dramatic increase during this time, the majority of African-heritage students currently attending college are found [
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March 29, 2000
Faculty & Staff
Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative action
Hit and Myth: Conference examines successes, fallacies of affirmative actionCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —  Ever since Hopwood  vs. Texas, the court decision that nullified minority admissions practices at the University of Texas Law School, the pundits have gleefully predicted the demise of campus affirmative action programs.But if a recent conference held at the University of  Virginia provides [
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March 15, 2000
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Testing the Truth About the SAT
Testing the Truth About the SATThis revised and updated version of David Owen’s 1985 exposĂ© is: a) a balanced and objective analysis of the merits and limitations of the Scholastic Aptitude Test  as a college entrance examination; b) a one-sided diatribe that can be easily dismissed; c) a significant extension of the original volume; d) [
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March 15, 2000
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Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE Report
Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE ReportWASHINGTON — Minority students continued to make modest enrollment gains on the nation’s college campuses in 1997, according to a report released last month by the American Council on Education here.The college-going rate of minority students rose by 3.7 percent between 1996 and 1997, slightly higher than the [
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March 1, 2000
Students
Testing the Truth About the SAT
Testing the Truth About the SATThis revised and updated version of David Owen’s 1985 exposĂ© is: a) a balanced and objective analysis of the merits and limitations of the SAT as a college entrance examination; b) a one-sided diatribe that can be easily dismissed; c) a significant extension of the original volume; d) none of [
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March 1, 2000
Sports
An Unappealing Decision
An Unappealing DecisionExperts view U.S. Circuit Court panel’s reversal of Cureton v. NCAA  as maintaining a ‘discriminatory status quo’ in collegiate sportsBy Eric St. JohnWASHINGTON — The NCAA “is free to discriminate.”  That is how some experts are interpreting the decision of a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled [
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February 2, 2000
African-American
Testing Your Diversity Knowledge
Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative Action  Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from [
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November 10, 1999
Sports
Black Basketball Players’ Graduation Rates Sink
Black Basketball Players’ Graduation Rates SinkINDIANAPOLIS — Graduation rates for African American college athletes in both men’s and women’s basketball sank again, setting off fresh concern that schools care more a winning season than academic excellence.The National Collegiate Athletic Association reported this month the graduation rate for black male basketball players at the nation’s biggest [
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September 15, 1999
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