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Homeless College Students: A Budding Crisis

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, January 6, 2011

Homeless college students.  When I first read that phrase, it sounded like an oxymoron. I had to read it three times before it settled into my consciousness. But as soon as it had settled, its implications began to grow on me and cause serious alarm. Before World War II, higher education in

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The Mismatch Hypothesis Helps No One

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, January 5, 2011

A note to the reader: In this new year, diversifying the STEM fields has perhaps never been more important—for economic health, innovation, and for the health and well-being of America’s diverse communities. As the higher education community is firmly focused on college preparation and completion, we must push to keep

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TPFKARLH: The Professor Formerly Known as R.L. Hughes

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, December 22, 2010

I am protesting. I am not wearing a T-shirt. I am not adding an X to my name. I am not writing my name in all small letters or wearing a black arm band (but I wish that I had thought of all those brilliant forms of protest!). Instead, while

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Learning Assessment: A Paramount 21st Century Higher Education Issue

by Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, December 9, 2010

In early January, the Lumina Foundation for Education will be releasing its Degree Qualifications Profile—an effort months in the making and preceded by a draft profile earlier this year. As a complement to the foundation’s goal of increasing “the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent

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Developing a Research Agenda

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, November 29, 2010

Young people pursuing graduate study often ask me how I developed my research agenda. They wonder how one carves out an area of research. For those of you who read this blog often, you know that the majority of my work focuses on historically Black colleges and universities and students

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