Today, African-Americans can attend almost all colleges and universities, but more than four times as many students choose historically black colleges and universities than 40 years ago. What’s the secret of their enduring success?
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4/30/2013
The University of Chicago has selected Kliment Halsband Architects to design a new home for the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society, in Hyde Park, Chicago.
4/30/2013
Paradigm Publishing, has released the SNAP 2013 Web-Based Training and Assessment, an innovative learning management system that optimizes students' skill development in Microsoft Office 2013 and streamlines course management for instructors.
4/30/2013
Wacom has announced the DTK-2241 interactive pen display, a premium communication tool designed to streamline the electronic documents workflow within education, healthcare and business settings.
4/30/2013
Enterasys Networks will bring 100 percent wireless network access to the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center, the university's multi-purpose arena that services over a quarter of a million guests each year.
4/30/2013
Sonic Foundry has announced the winners of the ninth annual Rich Media Impact Awards, which honor excellence in the practical and creative integration of Mediasite in business, education, health and government.
4/30/2013
The Continuing Education unit of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism offers Prof. Sree Sreenivasan (@sree), one of Poynter.org's 35 most influential people in social media and one of AdAge's 20 media people to follow on Twitter, in a special, advanced social-media class to be held in-person and via a live, global webcast and online chat -- along with two weeks of online coaching.
4/30/2013
As president of Harvey Mudd College, a science and engineering school in Southern California, Maria Klawe has had stunning success getting more women involved in computing.
4/29/2013
Last fall, Concordia University, a small Lutheran college, made a stunning announcement in academic finance circles: It was cutting tuition by 33 percent. Seven months later, school officials are ready to carry through on their promise.
4/29/2013
High-performance computing is a lot of computer processing power linked together, thinking through and solving different pieces of big problems in parallel. And universities are increasingly the hubs of the HPC systems that ask these questions, solve these problems, and change the world.
4/29/2013
One of the top pro-gun bills before Texas lawmakers this session was green-lighted Monday for a House floor vote this weekend, and a top backer predicted approval there for the plan to allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry their handguns into college classrooms.
4/29/2013
Louisiana’s community and technical colleges won another round Monday in their bid to circumvent the state’s normal construction funding protocol.
4/29/2013
Chattanooga State President Jim Catanzaro wants to add five applied science bachelor's degrees to his community college.
4/29/2013
The part-time instructors' union at Kalamazoo Valley Community College has filed an unfair labor charge against the institution with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, the KVCC Federation of Teachers announced Monday.
4/29/2013
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the government slashed an estimated $57.5 billion for research over the next four years under the across-the-board budget cuts that will hit many as the school year — and annual research contracts — comes to a close.
