Recently added articles from Diverse Issues in Higher Education:
Two-year colleges face student loan default challenge: rising rate causing some community colleges to opt out of student loan system.(washington update)
Oct 29, 2009; ... Buried within the federal government's new report on student loans is a statistic causing concern for some community colleges: Loan defaults in that sector have increased to nearly 10 percent. The official loan-default rate in the sector is 9.9 percent, up from 8.4 percent a ...
Confinement too costly for middle-class Black women.(spectrum)
Oct 29, 2009; ... When Dr. Lisa B. Thompson names modern women who fit the iconic Black lady" mold--Coretta Scott King, Anita Hill, Condoleezza Rice and Michelle Obama --you know exactly whom she is trying to liberate. Chances are your mother played this role. You probably do, too, if you are a Black woman ...
NCAA football penalties harsher for non-BCS, historically Black schools.(spectrum)(National Collegiate Athletic Association )(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2009 ... A recent study released by a former NCAA legal consultant says schools in leagues that have automatic berths in the Bowl Championship Series receive less-stringent probation penalties from the NCAA than historically Black schools and other Football Bowl Subdivision institutions for ...
UCLA exhibit commemorates 40th anniversary of Asian American Studies Center.(spectrum)(University of California, Los Angeles)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2009; ... A University of California, Los Angeles exhibit on display through Dec. 11 commemorates the 40th anniversary of the establishment of its Asian American Studies Center (AASC). The Powell College library exhibit, called "Forty Years of Breaking Ground," features artwork, photos ...
An unlikely coming together: Jewish refugees and Black students.(On DiverseEducation.com)(Brief article)
Oct 29, 2009; ... A unique exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has people talking about a sometimes uncomfortable subject, Black-White race relations. The exhibit, titled "Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges," chronicles the ...