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Study: Flawed Admissions Process Reason for Black Student Decline in California

Black applicants are being systematically blocked from the University of California system in part because of its flawed admission scheme, according to a new University of California, Los Angeles report released Tuesday.

June 12, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors

Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.

June 12, 2006

Bilingual or Immersion?

A new group of studies is providing fresh evidence that it’s not the language of instruction that counts, but the quality of education

April 26, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Higher Education Commission

The federal government should increase need-based financial aid for postsecondary education, but reject controversial ideas to introduce standardized testing into colleges and universities…

April 19, 2006

Public Divided Over In-state Tuition For Illegal Immigrants

A new survey by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that a slight majority of Chicago residents favored affording illegal immigrants who graduate from high school in Illinois…

April 3, 2006

Faculty & Staff

UMass Offers Science Degrees For K-12 Teachers

In an effort to address the national shortage of qualified K-12 science teachers, UMassOnline, the online arm of the University of Massachusetts system…

March 22, 2006

Enrollment up at Mississippi Junior Colleges, More Funding Sought

Enrollment in Mississippi’s two-year colleges has grown more than twice as fast as in the universities in recent years…

January 19, 2006

Bay State Bravado

As a bright and ambitious youngster growing up poor in Southside Chicago, Deval L. Patrick won a scholarship…

December 14, 2005

Federal Agencies, Congress Mull Katrina Aid Packages

With many Black colleges and other universities still reeling across the Gulf Coast…

November 30, 2005

Community Colleges

New Federal Commission to Examine Higher Education Strategy

Now that the administration has launched the No Child Left Behind initiative, the Department of Education is turning some attention to higher education. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings formed a 19-member Commission on the Future of Higher Education to examine issues such as skills students need to learn to compete in the global economy, and the […]

October 19, 2005

New Study Provides Recommendations to Remove College Barriers

States are pushing colleges, universities and K-12 schools to work together, but many state policies work at odds with

October 5, 2005

State Postsecondary Education Research

New Study Provides Recommendations to Remove College Barriers

States are pushing colleges, universities, and K-12 schools to work together…

September 21, 2005

State Postsecondary Education Research

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