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Recruiting at Rural Minnesota Colleges Reaches as Far Away as Alaska

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The Morris campus of the University of Minnesota sits on the prairie about 150 miles west of Minneapolis, 45 miles from the nearest Target Store, and far off the radar of many high school students shopping for colleges.

November 6, 2007

Students

Antioch Alumni Try to Keep Ohio College Open

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: “Office of Transition.”

October 23, 2007

Students

Alumni Scramble to Keep Antioch College Open

YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign: “Office of Transition.”

October 21, 2007

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Anti-affirmative Action Activist Ward Connerly Comes to Missouri

COLUMBIA Mo. Having conquered California a decade ago and Michigan last year, affirmative action critic Ward Connerly now has his sights set on the Show-Me State.

October 21, 2007

Students

Baby Boomlet Continues to Boost Enrollment at Washington State Universities

SEATTLE Baby boomers continue to send record numbers of their children to Washington’s public four-year universities, where enrollment is up on most campuses again this year.

October 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Colleges Struggle to Quit Rankings Habit

U.S. News & World Report releases its annual college rankings Friday in the face of the loudest and best-organized criticism from educators the magazine has ever encountered. But for all the complaints that the rankings warp college admissions and distract colleges from educating students, U.S. News still has the upper hand. Colleges are having a hard time quitting the magazine’s annual beauty contest.

August 14, 2007

Students

Air Force Academy board hears ideas for diversifying recruits

COLORADO SPRINGS Colo. The Air Force Academy risks falling behind elite universities in recruiting a diverse student body unless it invests in sophisticated, data-driven techniques to find qualified students, a former Air Force leader said.

July 28, 2007

STEM

Bogus Degree Sale Scheme Hits New York City college

NEW YORK Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college’s computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians’ assistants, they said.

July 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professional APPOINTMENTS

FISK UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW LEADER

July 14, 2007

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Tech prep runs into problems in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. In what could be a harbinger of the future for the nation, early signs indicate the tech-prep route in South Carolina’s high schools does not run much better than the so-called “general track” that it replaced. Education officials believe that inadequate teacher training for the rigorous applied classes could be one problem with the program.

July 11, 2007

Students

Through the eyes of a student – account of a student who attended a college fair

Editorial note: An institution’s purpose for attending a college fair is to attract high school students to their campuses. Black Issues thought it would be interesting to hear from a student who attended. The following is his report.

July 11, 2007