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*As tuition rises daily at our nation’s universities, parents everywhere are working diligently with their kids and praying for scholarships. But, what if your child got a full ride to college and chose a rap career over the scholarship? (Lady, put your belt down and keep reading!) Jay Harris also known as Jay DatBull played [...]
*With Chicago in the national spotlight for tragic teen shootings, uplifting news continues to come out of the city’s Urban Prep Academy. For the fourth year in a row, all seniors from its Englewood campus and the seniors from the inaugural graduating class at its West campus, 167 African-American males, have been accepted to a [...]
*Robert Griffin III has become an icon in the NFL, setting the tone for the season as the star quarterback of the Washington Redskins. Poised on the field, charming in public, and an admirable style of leadership all mark the presence of Griffin, but his impact also touches down in a special place in African [...]
*Not all college degrees are created equal. This is according to a recent report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The major you choose could reduce your chances of being part of the latest unemployment statistic—or make you the newest member of the club. It would be in your best interest to [...]
*Most people are happy for P. Diddy’s son’s acceptance into UCLA. Even P. Diddy was shocked that the boy had already gotten to 18 and is graduating from high school. But plenty of people are trying to rain on their parade with talk of Justin’s full-ride to the university. The controversy started when folks heard [...]
*What did you play outside with your friends? Baseball? Basketball? Running Bases? Four Square? Double Dutch? How about Squash? We’re almost certain that your reaction was the same as the youngsters in Harlem that were introduced to the sport for the first time. What the heck is Squash? Squash is a high-speed racquet sport, akin [...]
*What has happened to the days of a good ol’ after game party where everyone just partied hard as they repped their team wearing college jackets and/or other school paraphernalia? What has happened when you can’t go to a college party without getting shot? The parents that send their children off to college to get [...]
*Tyra Banks on Friday graduated from the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us Weekly reports. Banks, who dropped out of Loyola Marymount University to pursue modeling at age 17, enrolled in the program to better her brand. “In order for my company to grow and be the best, and to [...]
*The country focuses on the Big 10 schools and Ivy League as the premiere institutions of higher learning. But, somewhere along the way Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) became an afterthought for African Americans; making them an endangered … institution. (more…)
*CNS News reports that coed dorm rooms could be a reality for some UCLA students as soon as next year — but don’t expect campus housing to turn into “Real World UCLA” with strangers of different genders being thrown into the same living situation. The move is intended to better accommodate transgender students, as some [...]
*First, they say we’re not going to school and that the high school dropout rate is out of control. Now everyone is aspiring to go to college and they’re taking the SAT to prepare. The students taking the test this year were more varied than other times which leads to a unsurprising result. (more…)
*Ever since I had that bad experience with a stalker some fifteen years ago I’ve learned to pay less attention to the obvious, because oftentimes it’s what is not stated that is most important. Take for example the recently revised study that concluded (among other findings) African and Latino students fared better in the job [...]
*Manhattan College claims to be a Catholic institution, and the Archdiocese of New York lists the school as a Catholic college. Nevertheless, all this has not impressed the National Labor Relations Board, which recently ruled that the college could not prevent adjunct faculty from unionizing because, as G. Jeffrey MacDonald of Religion News Service reports, [...]
*For the second consecutive year, an all-male charter school located in one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods is sending its entire senior class to college, reports the Huffington Post. Urban Prep Charter Academy was founded in 2006, and its goal from the start was for every one of its graduates to be attending college when they [...]
*When you have a passion for something you’ll do it for free. And that’s how she knows writing is her passion. Her first role model was her mother who has authored and published three books. She remembers how her mother would write letters and ask her to critique them. And long before there were on-line [...]
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