Higher Education

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May 29, 2013
OPINION - Despite the progress America has made in diversifying its workforce and its management ranks, the country is backsliding...
January 31, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Dr. John S. Wilson Jr. has an outstanding resume. So much so he was headhunted after a…
January 16, 2013
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is enrolled at Auburn for spring semester...
October 22, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Just a couple months after Morris Brown College in Atlanta filed for bankruptcy, Morehouse College is reportedly…
September 21, 2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is not a fan of law school rankings...
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - With the collapse of Morris Brown College — due to financial mismanagement, corruption, financial aid theft and…
September 10, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The telecom tycoon has committed $6.4 million in scholarship dollars to send 40 African freshmen to Morehouse,…
August 29, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - For black students, adding degrees to your resume can also add years to your life...
August 26, 2012
ATLANTA (AP) - Facing more than $30 million in debt, Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
August 25, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - One of the country’s oldest historically black colleges is fighting for survival following revelations it is facing…
June 21, 2012
A recent study suggests that African-American students in California who obtain a college degree are more likely to reduce the…
April 23, 2012
BERKELEY, California (AP) - Fifteen years ago, California voters were asked: Should colleges consider a student's race when they decide…
March 30, 2012
Chicago's Urban Prep Academy will continue it's remarkable run this year, as its entire all-male, All-African-American class of graduates have…
March 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT- Key black leaders are divided on the Obama administration's increased regulation of for-profit colleges, with some casting the…
December 28, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The government may be making it even harder to earn a college education these days. Unfortunately, the…
September 16, 2011
OPINION - We need jobs now, absolutely, but if something isn't done about the student loan debt crisis, we very…
September 15, 2011
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) - Ruth J. Simmons announced Thursday that she will leave her position as Brown University's president…
September 14, 2011
(AP) - "It's a lot of little things," he said. For example, he said, the number of black students taking…
September 12, 2011
California Watch - The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding...
August 14, 2011
OPINION - A YourBlackWorld.com study reports that 42 percent of all African-Americans at predominantly white college campuses never had a…