Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery. The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."
Since the US supreme court banned affirmative action in college admissions in June 2023, US colleges and universities have grappled with how to boost campus diversity amid recent, troubling data. The latest figures on US college admissions at some major universities have shown drops in Black, Latino and Indigenous first-year enrollment. Such enrollment fell sharply […]
Texas had nearly twice the number of dual-enrolled students in fall 2015 compared to the second-most, New York, according to new research from the Community College Research Center. But how did their completion rates fare?
The provost for the City University of New York makes a big move to Hawaii's sole university system. Also: Why is Madison College (Wisc.) calling for a do-over with two finalists remaining?
Despite scattered efforts to globalize higher education and eradicate inequity, colleges and universities are slowly reverting to old habits, says this outgoing leader of the International Association of University Presidents
"I felt a black eye on me and my leadership team," the six-year Cedar Crest College president says. "I had a meeting where I said, 'Everything is on the table.'"
A demographic, dubbed "Rising Talent" can serve as an auxiliary source of enrollment beyond some college leaders' recent efforts to re-enroll previously stopped-out adult learners, declares a new report from WGU Labs.
