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Get Schooled: White student unions: Idea spreads to Georgia State
A white student union founded at Towson University in Maryland has inspired a similar group at Georgia State University. The founder of the informal GSU white student union says, "All we want to do is celebrate white identity. This is about being in touch with who you ...
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Study: Dual college pathways lead white students to greater ends and minorities to dead ends
I have written a great deal on colleges and the value of a college degree. I have interviewed many college presidents, admissions officers and researchers on higher education. As a result, I get a lot of questions from parents on where their teens should go to college.
And my answer is usually: The best school they can.
My reason is that a student is more likely to graduate at more selective campuses, a byproduct of the better qualified students who attend and the campus culture itself.
I saw firsthand the difference in student motivation, learning climate and academic drive at the state university where I attended undergrad and the Ivy League school where I obtained my graduate degree.
Here is a new report that addresses why minority students suffer because too few of them – even those who are qualified to do so – attend these upper echelon universities that graduate more students and send them off into their futures with greater advantages. Too often these kids are directed to open-access two-year and four-year colleges that spend far less on instruction than the selective colleges and graduate fewe
