By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin All across the country, people are gathering...
Amanda Bennett, HUFFINGTON POST TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Huffington Post)—On March 10, Elliot Spillers was elected the first African American SGA president at the University of Alabama...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “I decided that my education was the most important thing that I could ever have, because without your education, you...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist One of the most interesting findings of the data recently released by the Census Bureau is that so many recent college graduates...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist We know the commonly repeated claim that there are more Black men in prison than in college isn’t true. But...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Last week, the Obama Administration declared war on 1 million underserved students pursuing higher education throughout the United States. While...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Why does sports play such a prominent role in college education? Does it crowd out the attention we pay to...
[LA Times] Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African American students achieve at a different level than White students. Test scores are lower, as are high school and college...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On March 4 Oberlin College in Ohio, which has always had an outsized role in the history of Black...
[CNNMONEY] A handful of colleges think they’ve found the secret to closing the gap between the types of graduates they’re turning out and the types of...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service As the interest rates on higher education loans ratchet up higher and higher year to year, loan forgivingness...
