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Prescient ‘First Black President’ Still Trying to Steer Youth in Positive Direction

A quarter-century before Barack Hussein Obama was elected as president, he was portrayed by Dennis Rahiim Watson on college campuses across the country.

November 21, 2012

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Groundbreaking Shanghai New York University Closing in on Grand Opening

The Shanghai Daily reports that Shanghai New York University, the first Sino-U.S. joint venture university, soon will begin admissions for the inaugural undergraduate freshman class for the 2013 fall semester, university officials announced Tuesday.

October 17, 2012

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Purdue Plans to Add More Than 100 Engineering Professors

Purdue University plans to hire more than 100 new engineering professors and boost engineering enrollment by 10 percent over the next five years to help move the school to the top of the engineering field, the acting president said.

October 10, 2012

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Harvard Probing Dozens for Possible Cheating

Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered they may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam.

September 3, 2012

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Morehouse To Pay $1.2 Million After Federal Probe

At issue are funds provided by NASA and the National Science Foundation to help Morehouse students enroll in scientific fields.

August 8, 2011

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College Students Sought To Answer Questions on Maryland Slave Village

An archaeology dig at the Best Farm in Monocacy National Battlefield provided six mid-Atlantic university students hired over the summer through a U.S. Department of Interior grant the opportunity to excavate former slave dwellings.

August 31, 2010

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Report: Blacks Have Heaviest College Debt

A College Board study, Who Borrows Most? Bachelor’s Degree Recipients with High Levels of Student Debt, released today reports that undergraduate student debt is heavier among African-American bachelor’s degree recipients than among graduates from other racial and ethnic groups.

April 26, 2010

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Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read

Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.

February 22, 2010

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Georgetown University students call for immigration reform

On Oct. 13, students from MEChA, a student organization at Georgetown University, voice their support for comprehensive immigration reform, bringing their own stories to a rally at the Capitol.

October 18, 2009

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Clemson sets application, enrollment record while maintaining academic quality

Clemson University will welcome its largest freshman class this week.  According to Clemson University Media Relations, the university set a record enrollment of 16,281 undergraduate student applications.  The director of admissions said the university accepted more freshmen and transfer students because of uncertainty about how the economic recession would affect yield – the percentage of […]

August 16, 2009

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University students less satisfied with courses, survey reveals

University students are unhappier with their degree courses than they were a year ago, a major survey has revealed.  The Birmingham Post reported that almost a fifth of final year undergraduates at higher education institutions in the West Midlands said they were not satisfied with the quality of their course. The findings, which reflect the […]

August 6, 2009

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California Budget Crisis Threatens To Derail Students’ Dreams

San Jose State University senior Daniel Ruelas has been looking for a job since May 2009 without luck.

July 20, 2009