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STEM

Will CUNY’s New Math Standards Hurt Minority Admissions?

The chancellor of City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban public university system, has approved a new standard that may make it harder for Black and Hispanic students to gain admittance.

July 30, 2007

Students

Multicultural Dorm Project Rewarded For Retention Results

Five years ago, when Purdue University’s administrators sat down to brainstorm ways to improve diversity and retain students, they came up a solution they never thought would become an award-winning retention program.

July 30, 2007

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Goucher College dropping SATs as requirement for admissions

TOWSON Md. Goucher College has dropped the requirement that applicants submit SAT scores, the second four-year institution in Maryland to do so.

July 27, 2007

African-American

Letters To The Editor

If one of the editorial goals of Black Issues In Higher Education is to advocate and expand the base of those who seek to increase educational opportunities for Blacks, care must be most intensive when reporting the results of various studies that address any issue pertinent to the stated goal. This includes the issue of affirmative action.

July 14, 2007

HBCUs

How did they do that?

Forthcoming Mellon Foundation study documents activities that lead to African American success on standardized tests

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized

Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.

July 14, 2007

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The College Board decries preparation gap

Washington The College Board released the profile of the 1998 college freshmen who took SAT and AP (Advanced Placement) exams, saying that the number of well-prepared students of all ethnicities is increasing — as well as the number of poorly prepared students.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Why can’t black folks stand success? – unjust accusations against Lincoln University President Niara Sudarkasa

It is Saturday, July 25, and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., is celebrating a successful conference with a fantastic closing banquet. The keynote speaker, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, is talking about the seven Rs — the essential African values that African American people must embrace and rediscover if we are to move smoothly and successfully into the twenty-first century.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

More rigorous reporting needed – on affirmative action

WASHINGTON, D.C. When a news reporter fails o bring depth and sophistication to his or her reporting about affirmative action issues, he or she runs the risk of being a “megaphone for PR agents,” Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley Jr. told a gathering of more than fifty reporters and educators at a National Association of Black Journalists convention workshop here last month.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Chicago board fires outspoken Temple – Black academic Ronald J. Temple

Chicago Dr. Ronald J. Temple, buoyed by the support of a group of African American ministers, recently waded into the murky, shark-infested waters of Chicago politics. But the chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago system discovered his feisty rhetoric was no match for the vicious bite he received on March 5, when he was fired outright by the board of trustees.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Bad news in Berkeley: 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

July 12, 2007

Students

Trouble Along The Science Pipeline

Perhaps the most commonly cited barrier to African American students being chosen by the most competitive colleges and universities for admission into science and engineering programs is their performance on standardized college entrance exams, namely the SAT and ACT.

July 12, 2007