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Top 100 – Graduate Degree Producers

The Top 100 degree tables published in this edition of Diverse, and the many more detailed tables included on the Diverse Web site, delineate the institutions that have conferred the most master’s, doctoral and first professional degrees to students of color in academic year 2007-2008.

July 22, 2009

Students

Off the Beaten Path

The growing number of nontraditional students could spell trouble for traditional programs that are slow to adapt to this group’s needs.

June 24, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appoitments

DR. LORI BETTISON-VARGA has been appointed president of Scripps College (Calif.), effective July 1. She is currently provost and dean of the faculty at Whitman College. Bettison-Varga earned a bachelor’s from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s and doctorate from the University of California, Davis. ROXANNA JOKELA is director of alumni relations […]

April 29, 2009

Students

Getting Into the Game

Despite the fast-growing and lucrative landscape of video game designing, minority students are finding themselves with limited options in the field.

March 19, 2009

Students

Perspectives: Developing Successful and Effective Online Courses

This week, Diverse Online is running a series of stories on technology and distance learning to complement the March 19 Technology edition.

March 15, 2009

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Professional Appointment

DR. TRACY FITZSIMMONS is president of Shenandoah University (Va.). Fitzsimmons previously served as senior vice president and vice president for academic affairs and professor of political science at the university. She earned a bachelor’s from Princeton University, as well as a master’s and doctorate from Stanford University. IRENE CHÁVEZ has been named special assistant for […]

November 26, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

DR. PETER GITAU is associate vice chancellor and dean of students at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Gitau formerly served as dean of student life at the University of Dubuque. He holds a bachelor’s from Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, a master’s from Eastern Illinois University and a doctorate from the University of Kansas. JUDY HINRICHS has […]

November 12, 2008

Faculty & Staff

At Georgia Perimeter College, Online Teaching Has Its Benefits — Tenure

Michael T. Bradley is a full-time online- only professor. In the virtual classroom of his “World Religion and Introduction to Ethics” classes at Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year college in suburban Atlanta, Bradley employs a teaching style that both personalizes him to his students and encourages them to interact with one another.

October 15, 2008

Latinx

Program Sells Mothers and Daughters on College Goals

The Hispanic Mother-Daughter Program at Arizona State University, which has helped thousands of young women finish high school and attend college, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, ASU announced.

October 14, 2008

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Study: Many Americans Experience Job Opportunity Loss for Not Having Academic Degree

One recent study, highlighting the role that many believe formal education plays in the workplace, reports that almost one in five (19 percent) Americans — which amounts to roughly 40 million adults in the United States — say they know someone at their current or past job who has been passed over for a job because they didn’t have the right academic degree.

August 17, 2008

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What Higher Ed Is Doing Right … Or Wrong

It’s always interesting to review year to year which college and universities produce the most minority graduates in a given discipline, and furthermore, which universities occupy the No. 1 position for graduating the most students of color in any given field. Our annual “Top 100” undergraduate and graduate editions allow you to do that.

July 9, 2008

Students

What DeVry Does Differently

By directly tying degree programs with today’s marketplace demands, universities can better serve underrepresented students.

July 9, 2008