Karin ChenowethCommunity CollegesThe road oft taken – transfer-student figures difficult to trackSchool-by-school, state-by-state, the evidence is sketchy but tends toward the same direction: more and more four-year college students are beginning their higher education careers at community colleges.July 11, 2007StudentsThe new faces of Vassar – minority undergraduate transfer students – includes related articleWith only a few thousand African American and Latino high school students scoring 1310 and above on SAT tests, selective colleges often find themselves — scholarship money in hand — colliding into one another as they attempt to lure these highly-sought-after students to their campuses.July 11, 2007Community CollegesCommitted to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover StoryAn often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.July 11, 2007HomeNot guilty! – study supports contention that, in most cases, affirmative action does not deny Whites access to higher educationThe most ardent argument made against affirmative action is that it allows less qualified African American and Hispanic students to take seats away from more qualified White students.July 11, 2007StudentsForthcoming ETS Report proclaims the importance of HBCUs – Educational Testing Service; Historically Black Colleges and Universities – includes related article on ETS ReportWASHINGTON Every time the public funding of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is discussed, the same question arises: Now that colleges and universities are no longer segregated, why should a separate system of colleges and universities, begun in the time of segregation, be maintained?July 11, 2007HomeTaking Jim Crow out of uniform: A. Philip Randolph and the desegregation of the U.S. military – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 YearsNearly fifty years ago, during his reelection campaign, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ordering the “equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services.”July 11, 2007Leadership & PolicyPhenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover StoryAfrican American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995July 10, 2007HomeSAT, ACT scores increase: higher scores attributed to more rigorous courseworkStudents who take more academic courses do significantly better on the SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement tests.June 22, 2007StudentsTexas twister – Graduate Opportunities ProgramIn 1978, Sarita Brown told the dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Austin that the reason the university had so few minority graduate students was the fault of the university, not the lack of eligible candidates. A well-run program, she said, could bring in many more Black and Hispanic graduate students.June 19, 2007HomeStudies refute perceptions of open admissions and educational attainment – Special Report Top 100 Degree ProducersUltimately, the question of affirmative action will not be decided in the Supreme Court but by the public, which has been barraged by arguments that no matter what can be said about fairness and justice, affirmative action — and even desegregation — “just doesn’t work.”June 17, 2007Previous PagePage 3 of 4Next Page