Category Archives: higher education
Wiley College Debate Team
The 1930 Wiley College Debate Team won the National Championship. Wiley College defeated USC not Harvard as depicted in the movie “The Great Debaters”. The actual difficulty for Wiley was that they won the championship of a debate league … Continue reading
How Should We React to White Student Unions?
In August 2012, Matthew Heimbach, then a senior at Towson University, formed a “White Student Union.” By April 2013, the first WSU had made national headlines and another was established at Indiana University. Earlier this month, an unofficial WSU appeared … Continue reading
UConn bans professor-student relationships
Trysts between students and professors are no longer allowed at the University of Connecticut. The state university adopted a new policy this week that bans romantic relationships between undergraduates and faculty, as well as between graduate students and faculty members … Continue reading
Va. College Settles Class Action Suit for $5M
RICHMOND Va.—A federal judge has approved a $5 million class action settlement between a two-year college and thousands of primarily African-American students saddled with loans in return for what their attorneys called a sham education in which teachers sometimes failed … Continue reading
CU Boulder Faces Federal Investigation For Suspending Campus Sexual Assault Offender
The University of Colorado Boulder is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation into a student’s complaint alleging the school was slow to punish a rapist and when it did, levied sanctions that were too light. The U.S. Department … Continue reading
Hampton University to Lead Minority Male Health Initiative
After pulling together a group of historically Black institutions with notable experience in minority-focused health research, Hampton University officials have announced that the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is awarding the university a five-year, $13.5 million grant … Continue reading
Federal Student-Loan Debt Crosses $1-Trillion Threshold
Student-loan borrowers now owe the federal government more than $1-trillion for the first time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Wednesday. The swelling federal student-loan debt now sits at $1.2-trillion, the bureau estimated. The country passed the milestone with … Continue reading
Study: Black-White Achievement Gap Has ‘Political Foundations’
In a newly-published political science journal article, a Baylor University professor and a Notre Dame graduate student report that state policymaker attention to teacher quality tends to be highly responsive to low high school graduation rates among White students, but … Continue reading
Deans See Families as Key to Recruiting Hispanic Students
When it comes to the recruitment and retention of Hispanic students, start early and be sure to get the student’s entire family involved. Those bits of advice ranked high among the plethora of tips offered at the first annual Deans’ … Continue reading
Latinos in STEM fields vital to nation’s workforce
Accelerating the growth of Latinos with degrees or certificates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) is “critical” in order to meet the nation’s workforce needs, according to Finding Your Workforce, a new report by Excelencia in Education. However, Latinos earned only … Continue reading
Chronicles of Education.... 