Tag: Academic Degrees: Page 25

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Clouded optimism: graduate and professional degree rate among minorities outpaces that of whites, but experts predict surge will end if affirmative action backlash continues – Special Report: Top 100 Graduate & Professional Degree Producers

The numbers of African Americans earning graduate degrees at American colleges and universities from 1991 to 1995 increased at rates more than double the general graduate student population.

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995

July 10, 2007

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Putting words in the president’s mouth: when Terry Edmonds writes, people listens – Morgan State University alumnus and presidential speechwriter

Since Joining the White House in early 1995, presidential speechwriter Terry Edmonds has toiled far away from the news media spotlight that closely follows President Bill Clinton and his top aides.

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

“Techie” sets pace – Dr. Alan G. Merten, new president of Georgia Mason University

In American higher education, rarely have computer scientists advanced to the top ranks of university leadership. At George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Dr. Alan G. Merten, the school’s newly inaugurated president, is getting the opportunity to demonstrate the leadership, administrative and academic skills he has acquired during his twenty-seven-year career as a computer scientist and teacher.

July 10, 2007

Students

By feeding community, Hytche nourished UMES – University of Maryland- Eastern Shore chancellor William P. Hytche

As a young mathematics instructor in 1963 at the college that is now the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Dr. William P. Hytche took a stand for better conditions for his students and the community surrounding the school.

July 5, 2007

Students

Wilson proud of Norfolk State’s “X” factor – Norfolk State University president Dr. Harrison B. Wilson

His grandfather on his father’s side was a tenacious Virginia slave Who fought in the Civil War, first for the Confederacy and the Union Army. His grandmother on his mother’s side was educated at Wilberforce University and taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Kentucky.

July 5, 2007

Community Colleges

Establishing a Real-World Credential

Community College of the Air Force to award 300,000th associate degree.

July 5, 2007

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State stops company from selling fake academic degrees

SOUTH BEND Ind. Two Michigan City men accused of selling fake Indiana University degrees and transcripts online have shut down the Web sites after the state filed a lawsuit against them.

July 4, 2007

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School that expelled Freedom Riders wants to honor them

NASHVILLE Tenn. Tennessee State University wants to give honorary degrees to 14 students who were expelled for participating in the 1961 Freedom Rides.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

July 4, 2007

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Governor signs pioneering tax credit law to stop ‘brain drain’

AUGUSTA Maine With applause filling his office, Gov. John Baldacci signed on Monday what’s described as the nation’s most far-reaching law to keep the state’s best and brightest from fleeing after graduation by offering tax credits to reimburse their college loans.

July 1, 2007

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The Will to Succeed

In our cover story, “Making It Happen,” four Latina women share their stories about how they realized their educational and professional dreams despite facing various obstacles, including low cultural expectations or financial constraints. The underlying theme for each of their stories is “knowledge is power.”

June 27, 2007