Institutions with the highest mobility rates for low-income students: HBCUs: Alcorn State University (Miss.), Southern University and A&M College (La.), Lincoln University (Pa.), Dillard University (La.) and Alabama State University Link to main story: Minority-serving higher ed institutions take lead on upward mobility Predominantly black institutions: CUNY New York Technical College, CUNY York College, CUNY Medgar Evers College, Bloomfield College (N.J.) and West Alabama University Hispanic-serving […]

Almost everybody ranks colleges these days—old stalwarts like U.S. News & World Report, influential upstarts like Washington Monthly and click-baiting websites that measure everything from campus sustainability to most attractive students to coolest mascots. William Destler, president of Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, even found his university named one of the "geekiest" in […]

Resource constraints and other challenges are preventing some historically black colleges and universities from internationalizing their campuses as extensively as other institutions of higher education. That's a major finding of the Creating Global Citizens initiative, which for three years studied seven HBCUs that worked with the American Council on Education's Inclusive Excellence Group and the […]