Tag: Student Retention: Page 3

African-American

UNCF Conference Town Hall Meeting Focus on Creative Strategies for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Panelists offered up a wide array of solutions — from beefing up community and corporate partnerships to seeking diversified funding sources – as ways to tackle the problems that show no sign of subsiding.

November 13, 2011

HBCUs

Advocate Hopes to Use International Experience to Build HBCU Capacity

Longtime HBCU teacher and education advocate Boyce Williams talks about her new role at NAFEO.

February 23, 2011

Students

The Unfinished Race

In a new memoir, Dolores Cross describes how she labored to fix Morris Brown College but acknowledges the failings that led to the regrettable end of an otherwise stellar academic career.

January 13, 2011

Students

College President Tackles Student Persistence, Campus Expansion

Helping students persist to graduation at Hispanic-serving New Jersey City University is a priority for Dr. Carlos Hernández.

December 16, 2010

Students

Minnesota’s Private Colleges Recruit Diverse Students

For almost the tenth consecutive year the number of minorities enrolled in the 17 four-year, liberal arts schools that belong to the Minnesota Private College Council has increased.

December 14, 2010

Asian American Pacific Islander

Report: Asian American Academic Achievement in California Lags Heavily Within Certain Subgroups

Despite the pervasive nature of the “model minority” myth, members of certain Asian ethnicities in California have disproportionate rates of never finishing high school, especially if they’re poor or speak limited English, University of California researchers say.

December 2, 2010

African-American

Lomotey Stuns Southern University-Baton Rouge by Resigning as Chancellor

More than two years ago, Dr. Kofi Lomotey arrived at Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus with much fanfare and high expectations. So how did it all go wrong?

November 28, 2010

Latinx

Best & Brightest: UTEP Student’s Study of Success Recognized

University of Texas at El Paso doctoral candidate wins Distinguished Scholar award for proposal to raise student retention and graduation rates in Texas by studying influences on students who achieve against all odds.

July 11, 2010

Faculty & Staff

JSU’s Mason Ready for Challenges at Southern

Anticipating new leadership, the Southern University System expects incoming president Ronald Mason to raise external funds and improve student outcomes.

May 16, 2010

Recruitment & Retention

Report: Arkansas Public College Graduation Rate is 38 Percent

Less than 40 percent of students who enroll in Arkansas public universities obtain a degree within six years, according to a new state report. It said 4,333 of the 11,527 students who enrolled in four-year public universities in 2004 had graduated from those schools by 2009.

May 3, 2010

Students

Innovative Retention Policies Highlighted in New York Meeting

More than 500 college and university officials learn winning student retention strategies at national symposium last week in Buffalo, N.Y.

October 5, 2009

Recruitment & Retention

Paul Quinn College’s Accreditation Appeal Denied

Paul Quinn College lost an appeal of a decision that stripped the state’s oldest historically Black college of its accreditation, officials said Monday.

August 25, 2009