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Too Fat to Graduate? Lincoln University’s Fitness Requirements

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 30, 2009

News media recently reported that Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was requiring their students who have a body-mass index (BMI) over 30 to pass a physical fitness course in order to graduate. This policy, which has been in existence for a few years, is just now getting media attention and is

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Understanding Identity Politics in a Classroom

by Dr. Murali Balaji, November 19, 2009

When I taught at Penn State and Temple universities, my classrooms were mostly White save for a handful of Black and Brown faces.The toughest thing for me to come to grips with was the fact that I was a person of color teaching students who had rarely interacted with minority

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Creating an Army of Latino College-goers

by Deborah Santiago, November 18, 2009

I recently attended a football game and was struck by the assertive approaches by military recruiters to engage the males in attendance. It reminded me of several focus groups we held with Latino students across the country and their comments that the military was more aggressive

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Looking Forward Rather Than Backward

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 17, 2009

  Last Thursday, I attended the "Unfinished Business:  National Dialogue on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century" meeting at Morgan State University. Most of the conversation centered on the inequity that continues to exist in public higher education, especially in the Southern and border states.    During the presidents' roundtable,

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Getting Ready for the Praxis Exam

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, November 11, 2009

If your education students are a bit nervous or fidgety this week in class, here’s why:   On Saturday, thousands of college students and pre-professionals across the United States will arise early in the morning — earlier than most college classes start — and trek to a nearby

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