Colleges Aim to Welcome Minority Students
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Gizelle Clemens' first day at Trinity College was a busy one. There were ice-breakers, and introductions to other minority students, upperclass mentors and administrators. Then came a bus tour of Hartford's ethnic neighborhoods, pointing out places students can go for a braided haircut or Latino music or a Jamaican dinner.
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The nation's most elite colleges and universities are bolstering their black student populations by enrolling large numbers of immigrants from Africa, the West Indies and Latin America, according to a study published recently in the American Journal of Education.
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With diversity already at their core, they're intensifying recruitment of the nation's fastest-growing minority.
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Students from research-led universities want the government to consider establishing a national bursary scheme to boost widening participation to higher education.
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For the first time ever in the South, blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region's population as a whole &#151; something not yet true of the country overall.
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The people who pushed the NFL into a successful minority hiring effort are now turning their attention to the NCAA.
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Here was the idea: Students from low-income inner-city backgrounds could perform as well as better-off suburban students &#151; if they had a school that gave them proper support.
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Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work.
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In brief Mopping up the minorities
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The low number of minorities coaching in college football reflects a lack of diversity among college and conference leaders, according to a University of Central Florida study released Wednesday.
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The Black Coaches Association still wants more minority hires in college football. But the group's new report card finds that most Division I schools are increasing their efforts to include minorities in the search process.
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In the wake of the 2006 N.C.A.A. Tournament, which featured George Masonâs run to the Final Four, the Selection Committee appeared to shy away from smaller conference teams this year.
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&quot;Colleges are presenting themselves to the public, educated and uneducated alike, as places of mere physical sport and not as educational training institutions,&quot; the quote goes.
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The key to widening access to university is to persuade more teenagers to stay on, university leaders say.
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Bombarded by choices at a college job fair, Sara Kianmehr quickly found her match: Columbia College, a small, private school that didn't mind that her transcripts came from her parents.
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One of the nation's most prominent research centers on civil rights is moving to the University of California, Los Angeles and will expand its focus to include immigration and language discrimination, the California school said.
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Leading universities are taking students from more areas of the UK, a champion of wider access says.