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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Access to sports Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Nzingha Prescod initially didn’t see many sports options, but at age 8 she found her way to The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which offered fencing to New York City kids. It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities.

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Plan B Propels Engineer to Higher Ed Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 1998, he began teaching at the University of Alabama, and then joined the University of Cincinnati in 2002, where he rose to full professor, department head, associate dean for graduate studies and research, and ultimately dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. Research activity is ahead of last year.

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Choosing or Dumping Harvard?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, if you were a rejected Asian and in the general pool of 56, 937 applicants, buck up and look on the bright side. He didn’t need Harvard, and neither did any of the rejected applicants. I like to tell rejected applicants, they weren’t rejected as a human beings; they were simply told “no.” percent were Asians.

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New Leadership Carries the University Forward

The University Innovation Alliance

Sheares Ashby began her academic career at Iowa State University (ISU) as an assistant professor in 1996 and was promoted to associate professor in 2002, also mentoring ISU's Program for Women in Science & Engineering. Bridget Burns is the founder and CEO of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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Student Loan Repayment Freeze Extended; Borrowers Get Up to $20,000 in Forgiveness

Student Loan Hero

Applications are open now. 10, 2022, the government has temporarily stopped taking applications for this student loan forgiveness program until legal challenges to it have been resolved. Meanwhile, in some cases, an application might not be necessary. 22: Another extension keeps the relief measures in place through May 1, 2002.