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Parsing the reaction to Obama: scholars say extreme criticisms of president defy simple explanation
Jimmy Carter's experiences as a peanut farmer and up-and-coming politician from southern Georgia in the 1950s 1960s familiarized the former...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/29/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
Study: counseling at critical stage may cut dropout rate
One strategy to reduce high school dropout rates among African-American and Latino teenagers is to better align counselors and high-quality...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/15/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
Harvesting green-collar' jobs: scholars and academic institutions help local communities grow new employment sector
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Emerging in recent years from the need for increased energy efficiency and conservation, greater reduction of greenhouse...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10/01/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
Just a click away: University of Maryland University College has charted a unique path as a public institution in online education
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Joe Cruz, a 10-year Army veteran who served in Iraq, and wife Maria Cruz, the path from his military career to...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 09/03/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
Confronting the climate change: a Black think tank convenes a commission to focus on the disparate impact of climate change on minority communities and help involve historically Black institutions in clean energy projects
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nation's leading meteorologists,...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 08/06/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
The Obama books boom: as Barack Obama's rise to power inspires a flood of books, Scholars hope the publishing trend will yield serious analysis
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Barack Obama's rise from Illinois politics to the U.S. presidency has inspired authors to produce...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 07/09/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
The Browning of U.S. higher education: changing student demographics may prove the most formidable ever for American colleges and universities as well as for public K-12 school systems, scholars say
Scholars at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California have pointed to the precedent of European immigration in the...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 06/11/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
The community college transfer challenge: boosting student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions is a matter of getting all the right policies and programs in place
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once a high school dropout, Hamilton Cunningham beat the odds in navigating the transition from...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 05/14/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
On diverseeducation.com: HBCU student-run record label launched
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Americans have grown accustomed to television...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 04/30/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication -
Cutting costs, improving learning: despite a decade-long track record, many academics are still skeptical of the technology-fueled course redesign movement
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS a newcomer to the Department of Natural Sciences at University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 04/30/09 by Ronald Roach · More from publication
