Diversity

Dr. Samuel Myers said it “hurt his heart” as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU Equality trial, Jan. 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland’s four HBCUs, said he’s spent his life working in higher education. “And I’ve seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally,” he said. “And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated.”

The University of Colorado regents narrowly voted Wednesday to support a bill that would give unsubsidized in-state tuition to undocumented students who attended high school in Colorado.

The US Education Department is reviewing complaints that Harvard and Princeton discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions.

Students at New Hampshire's public colleges who are illegal immigrants would have to pay higher out-of-state tuition rates under a bill passed by the House on Wednesday.

A Senate panel voted down a bill to extend in-state college tuition to state residents who are U.S. citizens with undocumented parents.

Montclair State University police are investigating three incidents in the past week in which someone wrote threatening, anti-gay messages in a note and on the walls of the student center.

Wayne State University officials will unveil today a proposed tougher new admissions policy that is expected to reduce the student population by about 5 percent.

Two Rhode Island lawmakers say they want to turn a new policy giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition at state universities into a state law to make it harder for critics to reverse.

Students enrolled in private colleges will not be affected

The dining hall workers had been at Pomona College for years, some even decades. For a few, it was the only job they held since moving to United States.