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Top 100 Degree Producers, 2014

For several years now, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has produced the Top 100 Degree Producers rankings of the institutions that confer the most degrees to minority students.   Click the link above to discover the institutions that confer the most degrees to students of color.  Ranked institutions are searchable by institution name, state, discipline or race/ethnicity of graduates.

September 29, 2011

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UC Berkeley Professor Goodwin Liu Confirmed to Calif. High Court

The state’s three-member Commission on Judicial Appointments unanimously voted for Liu’s nomination, and Gov. Jerry Brown was scheduled to swear Liu in on Thursday.

September 1, 2011

Community Colleges

Mississippi Community College Degree Program Allows Academic Credit Earned from Military Training, Experience

A Mississippi community college is offering a new associate degree program that it says will enable veteran and active-duty members of the armed services to combine their military training with academic credits.

August 10, 2011

Latinx

Report: California Latinos Falling Behind in College Completion

A study released this week suggests that Hispanics, the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic group, may be falling behind educationally in California, the nation’s most populous state.

August 10, 2011

Community Colleges

Interview: Researcher Davis Jenkins Discusses the Challenge of Improving U.S. Community College Graduation Rates

The Hechinger Report recently spoke with Davis Jenkins, a senior researcher at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, in recognition of the second anniversary of President Obama’s American Graduation Initiative.

July 31, 2011

Community Colleges

Two Years After Obama’s College Graduation Initiative, Major Obstacles Remain

Only one in five of those who enroll in community colleges—and, in some states, barely one in 10—graduates in three years, while only about half of students who go to universities get their bachelor’s degrees within six.

July 13, 2011

Community Colleges

Louisiana Regents Expands Online Services for Adult Learners, Community College Students

Louisiana is expanding its efforts to ease the process for adults to return to college and for community college students to seamlessly transfer to universities.

July 11, 2011

Community Colleges

The Middle College School Comes to Maryland

The Academy of Health Sciences — located on the campus of Prince George’s Community College — is part of a network of schools established under the auspices of the Middle College National Consortium and is the first such academy to be established in Maryland.

July 11, 2011

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At Long Last, a Harvard Degree for Joel Iacoomes

Harvard University conferred the posthumous degree on Wampanoag tribe member Joel Iacoomes 346 years after his death at its May 26 commencement; his bachelor’s degree was accepted by Tiffany Smalley, another Wampanoag tribe member who on the same day received her Harvard undergraduate degree.

June 26, 2011

Students

Michigan Two- and Four-Year Colleges Team Up To Boost Minority STEM Enrollment

In Michigan, the alliance builds on a five-year effort by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University. Between 2005 and 2010, those universities increased the number of STEM bachelor’s degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students by almost 50 percent.

June 13, 2011

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Commentary: Increasing the MBA Diversity Pipeline – What’s the Problem – the Pipe or the Line?

Cultivating an interest in business and business careers among historically underrepresented minorities has been a formidable challenge for the business community.

June 8, 2011

African-American

Sixty Years Later, Black Educator Gets Recognition at University of Arkansas Graduation

In response to an appeal undertaken by the daughter of Arkansas civil rights activist Lothaire Scott Green, the activist’s pioneering academic accomplishment will be publically celebrated during the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville campus commencement on Saturday.

May 12, 2011