By Chronicle Staff. Report: “Focused on What Matters: Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes at Minority-Serving Institutions”
Authors: Erick Montenegro and Natasha A. Jankowski
Organizations: National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment and Penn Center for Minority-Serving Institutions
Summary: Minority-serving institutions are more likely than those that predominantly serve white students to use assessments of student learning for internal purposes, such as strategic planning and budgeting. More...

By Andy Thomason. The City University of New York has some serious bones to pick with an article in The Atlantic magazine that initially billed itself as an exposé of the difficulties minority students face in getting into the system’s colleges. More...

By Dana Sand. Study: 78% of U.S. who studied abroad in 2010-11 were white. Kenya Casey studied abroad as an undergrad in 1997. As an African American, she noticed an under-representation of minority students on her trip. Today, as associate director of the Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) at Emory University, she says the trend hasn't changed. The Institute of International Education's Open Doors data shows that 78% of U.S. students who studied abroad in 2010-11 were white. More...