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Leadership & Policy

Orangeburg Massacre Survivor Named College President

Cleveland Sellers, a survivor of the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, was named president of Voorhees College on Tuesday by the school’s board of trustees.

April 22, 2008

HBCUs

Black Colleges Seek More Support From Alumni

Making money, administrators at Virginia State University have learned, takes money.

April 17, 2008

Community Colleges

Indiana Governor To Propose Free Community College Plan

Gov. Mitch Daniels wants every high school graduate in Indiana to attend college for at least two years — and he is working on a proposal that would have the state pick up the tab for more of them to do just that.

April 16, 2008

Home

Senate Pushes Museum of the Latino Closer to Reality

The United States Senate has approved legislation that includes authorization to establish a commission to study creation of a National Museum of the American Latino as part of the Smithsonian Institution.

April 15, 2008

Sports

NY Court Rules for Man Who Says He was Fired Over His Black Wife

A jury might conclude that a White former college basketball coach was fired because he was married to a Black woman, a federal appeals court said Tuesday as it reinstated a lawsuit that had been dismissed by a judge.

April 2, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Thinking About Their Future in a Different Way

Roosevelt University partners with a local high school and promises its students full financial support if admitted.

April 2, 2008

Latinx

Chicana Educator Honored at UC San Diego

Gracia Molina Enriquez de Pick, an activist in the international feminist movement and lifelong proponent of educational reform was the honoree for the University of California at San Diego’s Cesar Chavez celebration kickoff on Tuesday (April 1).

April 1, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Preparing Students To Live With Curiosity

Dr. Karen R. Lawrence, the new president of Sarah Lawrence College, talks to Diverse about the challenges facing higher education and more.

March 19, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Preparing Students To Live With Curiosity

Dr. Karen R. Lawrence, the new president of Sarah Lawrence College, talks to Diverse about the challenges facing higher education and more.

March 18, 2008

Native Americans

The Struggle to Keep Native Students in College

Fourteen of New Mexico Highlands University’s 106 American Indian students enrolled last fall did not return for spring semester. The university is trying to figure out how to retain students who “don’t feel like they belong.”

March 12, 2008

Leadership & Policy

For Hispanic Leaders, College Affordability Is Top Concern

A panel of Hispanic college and university presidents said affordability is greatly affecting Hispanic students’ access to college and offered suggestions for boosting public investment in higher education at a plenary session at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s annual meting.

March 9, 2008

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$4 Million Anonymous Donation To Endow Scholarships for Women, Minorities at Temple

Temple University officials were surprised when they received two anonymous donations totaling $5 million in nondescript envelopes sent via U.S. mail.

March 4, 2008