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Fayetteville State University’s Nursing Scores Worst in N.C.

Fayetteville State nursing graduates had the worst pass rates in the state on the 2008 licensure exam, The Fayetteville Observer reported.

February 1, 2009

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Study: Obama Mystique Improves Test Scores Among Blacks

During the election season, President Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States, sparked a “Yes We Can” frenzy, reassuring African American students that they could make greater academic strides.

January 22, 2009

Community Colleges

Job Training Issues To Get Greater Visibility

Community colleges seek funding and policy changes to job training law to better meet evolving needs of the American work force.

January 21, 2009

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Professional Appointments

DR. DARYLL J. PINES is dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and the Nariman Farvardin Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Pines previously served as chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the college. He holds a bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s and […]

January 21, 2009

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Napolitano to Protect Border Better, Holder To Break With Bush Administration on Torture

President-elect Barack Obama’s pick to oversee Homeland Security told senators she will improve the department’s operations and relationships with other agencies, while his choice for the Attorney General’s office forcefully broke from the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies.

January 15, 2009

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Duncan Wins Praise at Confirmation Hearing

President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to lead the U.S. Department of Education pledged Tuesday to expand access to higher education and address “unacceptably high” dropout rates that prevent more youth from aspiring to college.

January 13, 2009

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Professional Appointments

DR. MARILYN SANDERS MOBLEY has been named the first Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity at Case Western Reserve University (Ohio). Previously, she was the provost at Bennett College for Women. Mobley earned a bachelor’s from Barnard College, a master’s from New York University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve. DR. MIRON […]

January 7, 2009

Health

CNN: Gupta Approached About Surgeon General Post

President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, about becoming the country’s next surgeon general, the cable network said Tuesday.

January 6, 2009

LGBTQ+

Hispanic, Gay Advocates Vie for Abandoned Commerce Post

No sooner had Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and President-elect Barack Obama made their announcements that the New Mexico governor would be stepping aside because of a pay-to-play controversy swirling around him, than advocacy groups sprang to action to get their respective candidates considered.

January 5, 2009

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Carter Attorney General Griffin B. Bell dies at 90

He joined the Army in 1941, before the United States entered World War II, and served five years in the transportation corps, rising from private to major.

January 5, 2009

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Richardson Withdraws Bid to be Commerce Secretary

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama’s commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.

January 4, 2009

Leadership & Policy

IN MEMORIAM

What an exciting and traumatic year 2008 has been. A historic presidential campaign that ended with the election of an African-American to the U.S. presidency. An economic meltdown not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

December 29, 2008