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Perspectives: Exposure, High Expectations and Academic Rigor are Critical for Achieving College Success

Many Black students, high school valedictorians included, are entering college completely ill-equipped academically and with the false perception that college is a form of “advanced high school.” The problems in education are twofold: the failure to graduate and the failure to graduate students prepared for success in college. The Center for Leadership Development provides a model that helps youth see that college success is truly an option.

November 7, 2007

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UK Adopts New Security Check for Foreign Graduate Students

LONDON The British government has introduced a new program of security checks for foreign graduate students to prevent sensitive scientific information from being used in other countries to develop weapons of mass destruction.

November 7, 2007

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Two Former Montana State U Graduate Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships

BOZEMAN Mont. Two recent graduate students at Montana State University have received Fulbright Scholarships, the school said.

October 30, 2007

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Officials Looking for Ways to Ease Shortage of Nursing Teachers

FARGO N.D. Ways to encourage graduate students to consider teaching, and the use of private money to supplement faculty wages, are among the ideas being discussed to ease a shortage of nursing teachers in the region.

October 29, 2007

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University of Kentucky Trying to Defend Image After Racially Charged Cartoon, Death Threat

LEXINGTON Ky. A Southern university is trying to defend its image after the student newspaper published a cartoon of a black man being sold at auction and a racist death threat was scribbled on the door of a black student leader’s dorm room.

October 21, 2007

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Higher Education Must Fill the Void in Student Financial Management

This fall, thousands of college students started a new chapter in their lives. I can’t think of a better decision they could have made, because a college degree is an absolute necessity rather than a mere option.

October 16, 2007

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Just the Stats: Capitalizing Higher Education in the Global Market

Although U.S. graduate schools admitted eight percent more international students this fall, that growth rate is considerably lower than 2006’s 12 percent increase, according to a new report from the Council of Graduates Schools.

September 6, 2007

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UA digs into Cuban American Indian history

TUSCALOOSA Ala. What might Cuba’s native culture looked like before the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s?

July 28, 2007

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Home-grown scientists; national labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientists of color

National labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientist of color

July 14, 2007

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Winning to lose – academy losses of Black faculty to industry

When thirty-year-old Dr. Damian Rouson completed his Ph.D. last April, the Stanford University graduate took a job at Failure Analysis Associates, a prestigious Silicon Valley engineering firm.

July 12, 2007

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Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way

By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.

July 12, 2007

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Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track

Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic caliber, motivation, and preparedness of African American undergraduates.

July 12, 2007