| A five-year-old mentoring program at the University of Texas at Austin pairing undergraduates considering graduate school with graduate students attracts many underrepresented minorities and first generation college students -- and seems to be working. At Tufts University, one student's brand of political satire smacks of racial insensitivity to a number of his fellow Asian-American students. Unlike the Common Application, a new entrant in the online college application market hopes to do a better job for institutions that serve large populations of low-income students by keeping application materials to a minimum. The North Carolina State Community College Board votes to admit undocumented immigrants but require them to pay out-of-state tuition. America's flagship public universities are failing to graduate enough students in four (or even six) years and are doing too little to improve the completion rates of low-income and minority students, especially black males, according to the much awaited book "Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities." In a sign of how crowded many community colleges are, one has started sections that meet at midnight. Columnist Wick Sloane writes about the students in his College Writing I class that meets from 11:45 p.m. to 2:45 a.m. Historically black Morgan State University objects to University of Maryland University College's planned online doctoral program in community college administration, raising questions about the impact of online education on duplication policies. The wisdom of college and university janitors is shared in the film "The Philosopher Kings" from filmmakers Patrick Shen and Greg Bennick. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy discuss the specific policies colleges need to embrace if they want to recruit and retain female faculty members. And Michelle Asha Cooper and David A. Longanecker view the current historical moment as an exceptional opportunity for our colleges to actively engage and critically examine where their respective campus communities currently stand regarding issues of race.
THE STUDENT BODY
Mentoring, Texas-Style
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A Tale of Two Posters
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Common or Elitist?
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"Hollow Victory" for Undocumented Students
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(Not) Crossing the Finish Line
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Teaching After Midnight
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THE FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATION
Educational Culture Clash
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Unexpected Philosophers
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Helping Women in 100-Hour Couples
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Race Still Matters
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AUDIO: Despite recent gains in minority enrollments, many graduate programs remain overwhelmingly white. How do institutions achieve greater diversity? A growing number of experts believe that while graduate admissions efforts are important, much of the work to diversify the graduate student body must start in undergraduate programs. On Wednesday, October 21 at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed will present "How Undergraduate Institutions Can Diversify the Graduate Student Body", an audio conference featuring Richard Cherwitz, founder and director of the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Consortium (IE) in the Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Cherwitz will discuss how undergraduate programs need to change to encourage more of their minority students (and more of their students generally) to consider graduate school and faculty careers. Click here to register now for this low-cost conference, or for more information.
Download a free podcast of Inside Higher Ed's interview with Morehouse College president Robert Franklin on the plight of black men, Morehouse's efforts to improve the academic and other success of its students, and the extent to which he and some of his peers -- including John Silvanus Wilson, the Obama administration's point man on historically black colleges, like Franklin a "Morehouse man" -- represent a new breed of historically black college leaders.
 CAREER ADVICE: In "The Importance of Mentors," new Career Advice columnist Terry Givens considers the lessons learned and confidence gained from those who encouraged her -- and her obligation to do the same for others. Read the column here and keep an eye out for Professor Givens regular column, "Running 'Round the Ivory Tower."
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