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Experts Recommend Improved Strategies for Getting Minority Males into Graduate School

The Council of Graduate Schools’ annual conference that wrapped up in Washington, D.C., over the weekend focused on the challenges associated with positioning students to pursue more than just a bachelor’s degree.

December 5, 2010

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College Counseling Runs in the Family

Inspired by their parents, some up-and-coming college admissions  counselors are joining the family business.

November 29, 2010

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San Jose State Dean Humanizes the Engineering Curriculum

As San Jose State University’s Don Beall Dean of Engineering, Dr. Belle Wei tries educating students broadly to help make them globally informed and socially responsible.

November 23, 2010

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In Wake of Tragedy, New Emphasis on Civility

Rutgers University launches project stressing civility as campus comes to grips with a cyberbullied classmate’s suicide.

November 22, 2010

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Higher Education Seeks Common Ground Among the Religious Faithful

Faced with America’s wide-ranging religious landscape, colleges and universities are working to embrace spiritual diversity through inclusive discourse, initiatives and programs.

October 12, 2010

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Summit: Improving American Education Key To Maintaining U.S. Living Standards

Speakers at a Washington education summit Wednesday touted college education as the means to a better life, both for individuals and society as a whole.

September 29, 2010

Faculty & Staff

PhD Project Tackles Business School Deanship Diversity

After making an indelible impact on business faculty ranks, The PhD Project sets its sights on diversity among business school deans.

September 23, 2010

Sports

Latina Athletic Director Thrives on Learning and Teaching

As the athletic director at St. Francis College, a Division I institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., Irma Garcia finds fulfillment in teaching others the rules of sports and sports administration.

September 21, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Tuskegee Selects Purdue Administrator, Researcher as New President

Tuskegee University announced Friday the selection of Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, associate vice president for collaborative research and engagement at Purdue University, as its sixth president.

September 19, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Dean Stabbed at Kansas City Community College

A man who was mumbling and carrying a knife in a building where Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to hold a news conference stabbed a college dean in the neck Tuesday before being subdued by witnesses.

September 14, 2010

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Tennessee Proposes Temporary Custody Plan for Fisk Art Collection; School Protests

The State of Tennessee, the City of Nashville and a new Nashville arts center will combine forces to temporarily relieve Fisk University of its responsibilities to maintain a priceless art collection until the school regains financial stability, Tennessee’s attorney general said Friday in a plan filed with a Tennessee court.

September 12, 2010

Students

Rev. Jackson Debunks ‘Post-Racial’ Idea at Minority Legal Scholar Conference

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who twice ran for president, mocks the notion that the mere fact that a Black person is sitting in the White House means the nation has entered a “post-racial” era.

September 12, 2010