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Graduation Rates Rise, for Some
Education Trust study finds as institutions' completion rates rise generally, minority students sometimes fall farther behind.
Race on Campus: The Latest
Threat against black students at Kean turns out to have been hoax; Harvard drops use of title "master" for leaders of residential colleges; 12-day Brandeis sit-in ends; a Kentucky legend defends mural that was covered up.
Demanding 10 Percent
Student protesters on a number of campuses want to see many more black faculty members. But how realistic are some of their goals?
More Complaints Than Findings
Education Department has received more than 1,000 filings on racial harassment in higher ed in last seven years. But only a fraction result in any findings.
Jefferson Is Next Target
At University of Missouri and William & Mary, some place notes on statues honoring the author of Declaration of Independence, calling him a rapist and a racist.
A Class Implodes Over Race
Kansas professor is on leave after students complain over her use of n-word and her statements on retention. Situation is latest to raise issues of racial sensitivity and academic freedom.
Responses on Race
1,000 complaints to U.S. Education Department in seven years; Brown releases $100 million plan to promote inclusiveness; Occidental sit-in ends after six days.
Collaboration or Merger?
Maryland officials call a proposal to merge a commuter institution with a HBCU a "far-reaching, risky scheme," arguing instead that joint degree programs can better end decades of racial inequity among the state's public colleges.