The number of blacks earning a master’s degree was up 8 percent
from the previous year. Since 2000 the number of African Americans
earning master’s degrees has increased by more than 51 percent. Click to continue at The Journal of Black in Higher Education
If the walls of Cicely Evans’ office could talk, they would tell of the mental health ailments facing Black college students, including domestic violence, depression, anxiety, stress, unresolved issues of homosexuality and thoughts of suicide. Click to continue at DiverseEducation.com
The teacher "badgered" Mohamed after denying his request to remove the
slur from the chalkboard or change it to the "N-word," and she
continued to say the word during class, said his mother, Tunya Mohamed. Click to continue at USAToday.com
The split on the board came down to philosophical differences about whether the lowest-performing students - who are disproportionately African-American, Hispanic and poor - would be harmed by the tests. Click to continue at Baltimoresun.com
Participants in the Access to Success initiative, a project of the National Association of System Heads (NASH), are stepping into the vanguard of higher education by publicly pursuing aggressive goals aimed at improving student outcomes and closing by at least half the gaps in both college-going and degree completion that separate low-income and minority students from others.
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