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Why Students of Color Should Study Foreign Languages

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The 2003 results of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) show that U. students who had studied a foreign language for 4 or more years outscored all other students on the verbal and math portions of the test (College Board, 2003). Knowledge of a second language also seems to coincide with high academic achievement.

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Business and Health Professions Lead Faculty Growth as Humanities Decline, CUPA-HR Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, "Two Decades of Change: Faculty Discipline Trends in Higher Education," analyzes data from CUPA-HR's Faculty in Higher Education Survey from 2003-04 to 2023-24, revealing significant shifts in faculty size, tenure status, and salaries across academic disciplines.

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Marie Hardin

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. Marie Hardin Marie Hardin, who has led the Donald P. Hardin will begin work at Quinnipiac on July 1.

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Alvin Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before joining the Law Centers staff in 2003, he served as the section chief of the Civil Rights Division of the Louisiana Department of Justice for four years.

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ETHAN POLLOCK

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 2003 to 2006, he was an assistant professor of history at Syracuse University. He spent two years as a U.S.

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A Note From Alison on International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day

Active Minds

I founded Active Minds in 2003, following the loss of my brother. He made you laugh, challenged what you knew or thought you knew, and just made you feel good. He was my other half, and every day I wish he were here with me.

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National Opinion Polls on Affirmative Action: Inflaming an Issue that is Divisive Enough

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Bollinger decision in 2003. What is salient in the Leadership Conference report is the “whole story,” i.e., the holistic process that the Supreme Court required in the 2003 Grutter decision. Complicating this issue is that the Census Bureau predicts that by mid-century, America will be “majority minority.”