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Students

Hispanic-serving Institution Officials Urge Education Reform to Expand Latino Opportunity

In response to the booming Latino student population across the country, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) is encouraging concerted collaboration between Hispanic-serving higher education institutions and public school systems.

April 19, 2010

Students

Bipartisan Effort Vowed on Congressional Review of ‘No Child’ Law

Congressional leaders vow bipartisan cooperation in revising the K-12 law, while associations push changes they consider essential to minority student success.

March 29, 2010

Latinx

Obama’s Education Law Overhaul To Focus on College

The Obama administration unveiled its plan Saturday to radically change his predecessor’s No Child Left Behind education law in hopes of replacing an accountability system that in the last decade has tagged more than a third of U.S. schools as failing and created a hodgepodge of sometimes weak academic standards among states.

March 14, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Rowdy Students Block Campus Amid Funding Rally

Rowdy protesters blocked the main gates of a California university Thursday amid campus protests across the nation against deep cuts in education funding.

March 4, 2010

MSIs

Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements

For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.

February 9, 2010

Latinx

Obama Budget Plans More for Education

Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.

February 1, 2010

African-American

Principal Certification May Boost Learning, Colleges of Education

A gathering of the nation’s leading educators met in Washington Tuesday to unveil plans for a first-of-its-kind national certification process for school principals, a move that may bring changes to colleges of education as well as K-12 schools.

December 8, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Kanter Gets Candid About Accelerating American Achievement

U.S. Education Department under secretary is driving the Obama administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

December 1, 2009

HBCUs

ACCELERATING AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT

Dr. Martha Kanter, the U. S. Education under secretary, is driving the administration’s higher education agenda and all roads go through community colleges.

November 25, 2009

Home

Teacher Shortage Gives Way to Teacher Glut

When Lilli Lackey started college, talk of a growing teacher shortage gave her confidence that a job would be waiting for her when she got out.

November 12, 2009

Students

New Minority Engineering Leader Stresses K-12 Exposure to Careers

Dr. Irving Pressley McPhail, president and CEO of the National Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME), says developing more elementary and secondary school initiatives that help steer under-represented minority students into undergraduate engineering programs will be a high priority during his tenure.

October 29, 2009

MSIs

OPENCOURSEWARE: AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR MINORITY STUDENTS AND MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTIONS

Today, higher education in the U.S. is facing signifi- cant challenges, most notably those resulting from the economic downturn.

October 14, 2009