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December 7, 2010
The university's admissions data confirms that only one black Briton of Caribbean descent was accepted for undergraduate study at Oxford…
December 3, 2010
Students and university employees who saw the fliers contacted the administration, which looked into the matter...
November 26, 2010
OPINION - Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being…
November 19, 2010
OPINION - Our young men are an endangered breed. And the higher the level of education, the more endangered they…
October 28, 2010
OPINION - Today as in times past, HBCUs give the best and the brightest an education which can catapult them…
October 27, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The initiative is designed to increase the pipeline of HBCU students into the financial services industry...
October 20, 2010
(AP) - Overall, post-secondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today's young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation,…
October 19, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - "The 400,000 or 500,000 African-Americans in the Delta need a place to go to school where…
October 19, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
October 15, 2010
OPINION - By giving athletes a stipend of say, $400 a month, many of these athletes wouldn't feel a need…
September 8, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite additional funding and government mandates, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is floundering in its efforts to…
June 16, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - College freshman enrollment among African-Americans jumped by 8 percent in 2008...
June 16, 2010
Orayne Williams, 18, who is homeless, has an A average and will attend a community college on a scholarship...
May 27, 2010
Urban Prep Academy's announcement was met with skeptics, some of whom said that being accepted to college is not the…
May 11, 2010
From The Philadelphia Inquirer - They didn't plan it this way, but life events brought all three - grandmother, mother,…
May 8, 2010
OPINION - Relative to past presidents, Obama is doing more than others to help these struggling institutions...
May 6, 2010
OPINION - Sadly, a network connection only allows students to perfect their racism, with high-tech anonymity in some cases, and…
April 6, 2010
VIDEO - Only 11 percent of students in the first generation of their families to graduate college successfully complete school,…
March 25, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The legislation will give more needy students access to bigger college Pell Grants and make it easier…
March 25, 2010
OPINION - Although I like to think of education as a tool for personal enrichment, the fact is most people…