For Struggling Black College, Hopes of a Revival
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Wiley College is suddenly feeling the glow of celebrity with the release of a film about the schoolâs debating team.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. -- After her first day of classes this week at the University of North Carolina's campus here, Aleyna Castillo crossed a field, passing joggers and cyclists and students sprawled on the grass, reading in the sunshine. She didn't linger at her brick dormitory. The Loudoun County...
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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That&#39;s what the Black Coaches Association said it is looking for in an effort to increase minority hirings in college football.
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Dartmouth College has been repeatedly roiled in recent weeks over the way some students are treating the very people the school was founded to help: American Indians.
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Some of the direst noises about our nationâs scientific prospects may be premature; students seem to be embracing challenging science courses.
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An institution seeks to be more than just an archive of programs.
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The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
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Americaâs already stratified system of higher education is becoming ever more so, and the chasm is creating all sorts of tensions as the less wealthy colleges try to compete.
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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For the first 56 minutes of last night's game at Virginia Tech, it appeared Boston College's dreams of dancing to Bourbon Street for a shot at the national championship were going to die.
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The team hasn't won a league game since 1985, but this school is more about rocket science than rebounds.
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On the campus of Amity University, pretty much everything is a work in progress.
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The largest school board in Canada plans to launch a black-focused school to tackle the problem of high dropout rates.
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Apart from a few marquee matchups, college basketball has yet to command prime attention during the first two months of the season, and for schools in lesser leagues, the best opportunity to make a national impression is winding down.
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COLLEGES The dearth of black head coaches in college football was lamented in powerful language by NCAA president Myles Brand before the House Subcommittee on Commerce. "Sadly, if the pace of progress remains the same, it will be approximately 80 years before we reach a percentage [of coaches] that even approximates the number of African-Americans in the general population," said ...
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As classes start in New Orleans, hopes are high that Katrina's devastation may have helped revive a troubled school system