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The Importance of K-12 Preparation

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, April 22, 2010

I received a call this week from the NAACP leadership in Chesterville County, Va., regarding the disproportionately low numbers of minority students enrolled in advanced placement, honors, gifted and other forms of advanced high school coursework there. The man I spoke with has a daughter who entered college with STEM

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Gearing for the Stretch Run

by Dr. Murali Balaji, April 16, 2010

One of the quirky aspects of being at Lincoln is that there is no spring break. As a result, the semester is an intense four months beginning in January and ending in mid-April. With just over two weeks until the end of the semester, many of my students are already looking

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Refusing To Define Quality by Anything but Test Scores: Why?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, April 12, 2010

Last night I was at a dinner party. The small gathering included eight Ivy League tenured faculty members. Although we were gathered to talk about another matter, the subject of test scores and college admissions surfaced. I won’t go into the details of the discussion, but, as you might expect,

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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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Racial Mis-Profiling Affects Black Men More Acutely

by Dr. Elwood Watson, November 10, 2009

In my previous column, I took the position that Black men tend to bear the brunt of many of society’s frustrations and are often targeted in a negative manner. Well, in response to my column, I received a few e-mails and phone calls from people from various backgrounds. My supporters

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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