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A Model Project

A Model ProjectFocused on steering minorities toward business doctorates, the PhD Project serves as a successful model for other minority student doctoral initiatives.By Ronald Roach For many who are earning a master’s in business administration (MBA), attaining the coveted degree virtually guarantees them a ticket to a lucrative career path in corporate America. However, when […]

November 21, 2001

Community Colleges

Lawmakers Debate Restrictions on Student Visas

Lawmakers Debate Restrictions on Student VisasLegislation under discussion on Capitol Hill would make it harder for foreign students to enroll in U.S. colleges and universities. “The foreign student visa program is one of the most unregulated and exploited visa categories,” says Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., one of the program’s staunchest critics since the Sept. 11 […]

November 21, 2001

Leadership & Policy

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?Many wonder what Bollinger’s departure will mean for the battle to preserve the university’s admissions policiesBy Erik LordsANN ARBOR, Mich.When University of Michigan president Lee Bollinger confirmed earlier this month that he will become Columbia University’s next president, it triggered speculation about who will replace the popular leader […]

October 24, 2001

UGA Passes Up Chance to Appeal Admissions Policy Decision

UGA Passes Up Chance to Appeal Admissions Policy DecisionSchool officials are still considering Supreme Court action.ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia has only one option left — the U.S. Supreme Court — if it will appeal a federal court ruling that declared its admissions policy unconstitutional because it considers race. Georgia let a Sept. 17 deadline […]

October 10, 2001

Report Finds Modest Increase in Minority Enrollment, Graduation Rates

Report Finds Modest Increase in Minority Enrollment, Graduation RatesWASHINGTONThe number of students of color enrolling and graduating from the nation’s colleges and universities continues to increase modestly, but the rate of increase is beginning to slow, according to the 2000-01 Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education, released earlier this month by the American […]

September 26, 2001

Report Finds Increase in Candidates Seeking GED Diplomas

Report Finds Increase in Candidates Seeking GED DiplomasWASHINGTONMore adults worldwide took one or more of the five tests in the General Educational Development (GED) Test Battery in 2000 than in any single year except 1996. Some 512,000 people earned the GED high school equivalency diploma during the year 2000, the GED Testing Service stated in […]

August 29, 2001

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant Aid

Reform Plan Targets Student Repayments on Federal Grant AidNeedy students who drop out of college may face fewer responsibilities to pay back federal grant aid if a proposal from leading higher education groups becomes law.With support from more than a dozen other groups, the American Council on Education (ACE) is calling for major changes in […]

August 15, 2001

Gallup’s Washington Debut

Gallup’s Washington DebutOrganization unveils latest social audit on Black/White relations in the United StatesWASHINGTONIn a move to highlight its influential work, the Gallup Organization publicly inaugurated the Gallup Tuesday Briefing at its unique Washington, D.C.-based facility that combines the restored remnants of a historic downtown building and a brand new classically designed office complex.The Tuesday […]

August 1, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Salary Gap Widens Between Tenured, Non-Tenured Faculty, NEA Report Says

Salary Gap Widens Between Tenured, Non-Tenured Faculty, NEA Report SaysWASHINGTONThe two-tiered employment system for higher education continues to erode salaries among non-tenured faculty, according to recent data collected from the National Study of Post Secondary Faculty that was analyzed and published in the June issue of the National Education Association’s Higher Education Research Center Update.Additionally, […]

July 4, 2001

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action Case

Supreme Court Declines to Review Affirmative Action CaseDecision leaves education observers wondering when Court will revisit the issueBy Ronald A. TaylorWASHINGTONThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to let stand a federal appeals court ruling on the University of Washington law school’s now-revised admissions policy left affirmative action advocates applauding, quota opponents grumbling and both […]

June 20, 2001

Senator’s Defection from GOP to Affect Higher Education

Senator’s Defection from GOP to Affect Higher EducationFull House approves White House-endorsed education reform billCollege officials can expect a sea of change on Capitol Hill following the decision by Vermont Sen. James Jeffords to leave the Republican party and become an independent.Jeffords, a moderate Republican, bolted from the GOP in late May, citing the increasingly […]

June 20, 2001

Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:

Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:Number of African American Bachelor’s Degree Holders Tops 100,000 by Phaedra Brotherton In the 1999-2000 academic year, the number of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees topped the 100,000 mark — coming in at 103,874, an increase of 8,350 degrees, or 8.74 percent, over 1997-1998 figures. After promising gains in 1997-1998 […]

June 6, 2001

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