Karin ChenowethHBCUsThe surging degree waveAs the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.July 12, 2007StudentsWhen hazing leads to death: one campus’ response – Southeast Missouri State UniversityAll campus administrators face issues of hazing, some with more urgency than others. Southeast Missouri State University faced a worse crisis than most in 1994 when twenty-five-year old Michael Davis — a journalism major — died after two weeks of hazing at the hands of his Kappa Alpha Psi brothers.July 12, 2007StudentsNew standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New YorkThe man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.July 12, 2007Leadership & PolicyPowerful sisters – college presidents – Cover StoryWithin only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.July 12, 2007Leadership & PolicyAfrican American college presidents in declineYet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growingJuly 12, 2007StudentsBuilding a culture of success – New York State high school/college science enrichment program, minority studentsNew York A new report on New York State’s Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) and its college counterpart (C-STEP) shows that these enrichment programs were responsible, in the words of the outside evaluator, for “dramatically raising the academic performance of their students,” most of whom are African American, Hispanic, and low-income.July 12, 2007African-AmericanThe public responsibility of Pan-African StudiesAs a discipline, Pan-African studies has developed a body of expertise that should, in the future, help focus public policy regarding Africa and the African diaspora, according to scholars who participated in the Pan-African Studies Conference earlier this month.July 12, 2007Students1998 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards – 1998 nominees and recipientsSix years ago, Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Award to honor undergraduate students of color who exemplify the standards set by tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr.July 12, 2007StudentsACE lauded at conference for stand on diversity – American Council on Education – includes related article on Dr. Reginald WilsonSan Francisco Both Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala praised the American Council on Education (ACE) for its recent statement on the need for diversity in higher education.July 11, 2007StudentsTransfer and dropout statistics don’t tell the whole storyAnyone who looks at transfer rates from community colleges would be well advised to be prepared for dismal reading.July 11, 2007Previous PagePage 2 of 4Next Page
