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AERA Session Addresses New Approaches to the Ed.D

Over the past few years, universities have really differentiated Ph.D. programs from Ed.D. programs and have developed three-year Ed.D. models largely geared for students who are already working professionals in education.

March 27, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Returning Home

As part of our tribute to female college presidents, Diverse talks with Dr. Linda Warner, president of Haskell Indian Nations University.

March 25, 2008

Community Colleges

Maine Community College System May Face $1.95 Million Funding Cut

Gov. John Baldacci, spelling out how he would make up for the second $95 million reduction in state revenue estimates in three months, unveiled a budget change package Wednesday that relies largely on new proposals to cut back planned expenditures, including on state aid to local schools.

March 5, 2008

Providing a ‘Full Circle of Support’

With less than 1 percent of American Indian students majoring in the sciences, AISES founders say they are on a mission greater than themselves.

March 4, 2008

Spectrum’s Own ‘Emergency Teacher’

Devoted Diverse readers may recall that former senior editorChristina Asquith spearheaded thecreation of the Spectrum section in the magazine in 2006.

February 20, 2008

Holistic Admissions Review Not Being Utilized in California

Despite the official adoption of a holistic review of applicants to blunt the impact of the 1996 affirmative action ban in admissions, University of California schools are still relying on traditional indicators of merit and Black student enrollment has continued to suffer as a result, according to a UCLA study released Tuesday.

February 4, 2008

Black Male Initiative Conference Yields Best Practices

ATLANTA Five years after the University System of Georgia started an initiative to boost enrollment of Black males, officials are seeing results, but they also realize more needs to be done.

December 1, 2007

Washington State’s Higher Education Board Drafts 10-year Plan

SEATTLE The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board got an earful when it traveled the state asking citizens to tell them what needs to be fixed about the way Washington educates people after high school.

November 15, 2007

K-12 Improvement Center of UNCF Summit

While a college education is vital to achieve great lengths in the workplace and in life, the quality of time spent in the classroom years before determines whether a person will excel in higher education.

September 23, 2007

Report: Federal Aid to Schools Devastated By Hurricane Katrina Woefully Inadequate

WASHINGTON Gulf Coast schools decimated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita two years ago are still waiting for promised federal help, a new report finds. The study, released Wednesday by the Southern Education Foundation, reveals that a lack of government intervention has caused as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students to stay out of school.

August 29, 2007

Fight or Flight

Ted Shaw and other diversity proponents retool while Ward Connerly gloats.

August 22, 2007

Republican Candidates Offer Few New Ideas on Education

School vouchers are a perennial favorite, but higher education ideas are lacking.

August 22, 2007

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