By Reeve Hamilton:
Texas Southern University had the state's lowest six-year graduation rate — 12 percent in the most recent data. But colleges throughout Texas have struggled to get more students to the finish line. In April 2011, Gov. Rick Pe ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 2:49PM
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By William J. Zick:
-The Chattanoogan Choral Society For Preservation Of African American Song Concert Is May 28-
“Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song, under the direction of Roland Carter, will honor the ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 2:40PM
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By MELINDA DESLATTE:
The divisive idea to merge Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans has turned into a modest plan to shift UNO to a different college system that focuses on regional campuses and away from a system ...
Posted Friday, May 20th 2011 at 2:29PM
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By Editor:
Dean Salome Raheim was recently elected to the National Nominating Committee (NNC) of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) as a Graduate Dean Representative. She brings to this position the knowledge and networks developed duri ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 3:12PM
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By Tommiea King:
One of 11 institutions to be named as a finalist for the Presidential Award, 641 recognized overall--
Jackson State University has been admitted to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll as a Presi ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 3:07PM
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By The Freeport News:
Four Grand Bahama Youth Choir members left the island yesterday for New Providence where they have been invited by the United States Embassy to participate in the Partners Achieving Success Leadership Academy.
The Leaders ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:58PM
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By Marybeth Gasman:
Not long ago, I wrote an essay for Diverse Issues in Higher Education about Spelman College and how it is a role model for all colleges and universities in terms of the tremendous monetary and voluntary support it receives from ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:48PM
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By Rod Stafford Hagwood:
Bill Cosby's comedy concerts are all about family-friendly, sweet and langourous stories on marriage and parenting. Conversly, recent headlines chronicle his prickly contretemps with the likes of Donald Trump and Russell S ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:30PM
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By David Zurawik:
Oprah Winfrey is one great storyteller.
So let her set the stage for the story of her years in Baltimore — seven and a half years starting in 1976 that would profoundly shape not only the life of the young anchorwoman, but a ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:22PM
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By Tamarind Phinisee:
St. Philip’s College has begun enrolling students in its online and on-campus network security administrator academic associate and certificate program.
The program now offers students two National Security Agency certif ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:16PM
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By Roy S. Johnson:
I was heartened by what I heard coming out of last week's annual gathering of athletic directors and rising star assistant coaches known as the Villa 7 conference at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. In an age wh ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:10PM
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Bethune-Cookman University is the grand prize winner in a contest for Historically Black Colleges and Universities winning $50,000 toward college improvements. ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 2:03PM
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New ACT Report Shows Standards in Math and Reading to be Internationally Competitive--
The new Common Core State Standards can help make the U.S. education system competitive with those of the highest-performing nations in the world, according to ...
Posted Thursday, May 19th 2011 at 1:55PM
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After signing a big contract in February, veteran Milwaukee Brewers second baseman
Rickie Weeks, the former Southern University, Southwestern Athletic Conference and NCAA standout, is flourishing with about a quarter of the Major League Baseball sea ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 5:21PM
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Lincoln (MO) University's head track and field coach Victor Thomas was named the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) Women's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year as announced by the conference office Sunday. Thomas wins his ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 4:56PM
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The National Sportscasters and Sportscasters Association & Hall of Fame has chosen Shaw Head Basketball Coach Cleo Hill, Jr. as the NCAA Div. II winner of the inaugural Clarence E. ‘Big House’ Gaines College Basketball Coach of the Year Award. Vi ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 4:45PM
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By Dallas Lee Bell * N.E.W.S.:
Rev. Jesse Jackson raises more than $3 million in scholarship funds and continues fight to reduce the rate on student loans
To the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered at Rainbow PUSH Headquarters on Saturda ...
Posted Tuesday, May 17th 2011 at 2:26PM
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Should fraternities caught up in sexual and other violent scandals be banned from college and university campuses?
It’s a question that author Caitlin Flanagan, who believes that frat houses are the most malevolent of male power institutions ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 4:41PM
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By WBOC:
A federal judge is deciding whether a suit that contends that Maryland underfunds its four historically black colleges and universities can go forward to trial next month.
Lawyers representing an advocacy group that sued the Higher Edu ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 3:10PM
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By Rebecca S. Rivas:
In low voices, the audience began singing, “We are climbing Jacob’s ladder.”
On a stage, the character of Deacon A. L. Wiley, an African-American man living in the Los Angeles boom town of 1904, had been telling them ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 2:42PM
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By Hartford Business:
Hartford managed care provider Aetna Inc. is putting up $454,000 to promote ethnic diversity among the next generation of U.S. physicians.
Aetna and the Aetna Foundation say they have allocated funds to support to separate ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 2:30PM
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By PRNewswire:
Chevron Energy Solutions, a unit of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), announced an energy efficiency and solar program at North Carolina Central University, which is expected to save the university more than $10 million over the life ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 2:09PM
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By Home of 105 Voices of History:
An International Conductors Team, US and Bahamian, will lead 105 voices in a “One Voice” Music Gala in Nassau, Bahamas. This is the first time in history; we are linking leadership, voices, cultures, traditi ...
Posted Friday, May 13th 2011 at 1:59PM
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By Adrienne Phillips:
Parents, friends, alumni, faculty and staff members gathered April 29-May 1, 2011 to celebrate and bid farewell to the Rust College Class of 2011. Several activities kept students and guests busy throughout the weekend: on Fr ...
Posted Thursday, May 12th 2011 at 2:17PM
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Before becoming the Cincinnati Health Commissioner in February 2006, Dr. Noble A-W Maseru, Ph.D., M.P.H., served as the director and health officer for the City of Detroit. He joined Mayer Kwame Kilpatrick's administration in February 2003. Dr. M ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 6:15PM
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