By Jennifer Schuessler. ‘Ebony and Ivy,’ About How Slavery Helped Universities Grow. When Craig Steven Wilder first began digging around in university archives in 2002 for material linking universities to slavery, he recalled recently, he was “a little bashful” about what he was looking for. More...

By Jamal Watson. Some of the nation’s most prominent research scholars are gathering this week in St. Thomas to strategize solutions and share best practices on how to improve Black male achievement.
For the second year in a row, the three-day international colloquium has brought together researchers from various academic disciplines who are engaged in cutting-edge scholarship that focuses squarely on how to address what has become one of the nation’s most vexing problems.
“This has always been our vision,” says Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory—a research center that is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research on topics of equity and inclusion in education, with a particular focus on higher education. More...

By Prashant K. Nanda. Foreign universities can now set up campuses and offer degrees in India without having a local partner. More...

Diversité et égalité des chances

• Convention CNML pour la promotion de la Charte de la diversité en entreprise
• Charte du Service Public de l’Emploi contre les discriminations
• Les guides du projet EQUAL ESPERE (Engagement du Service Public de L’Emploi pour Restaurer l’Egalité)
• Les guides prévention et de lutte contre les discrimination du projet EQUAL LATITUDE

By Joanne Jacobs. If President Obama really wants to “shake up” higher education, he should start by scaling back student loans, writes economist Richard Vedder on Washington Monthly‘s College Guide. That means dropping loans to affluent parents and the federal tuition tax credit, limiting student borrowing and, ultimately, getting the federal government out of the student-loan business.
Colleges that benefit from student loans and grants should share some costs of high default rates, Vedder argues. That would discourage colleges from enrolling students with little chance of success. (Politically, this is a big loser.)
Next, consumers need better information, he writes. Read more...

The EU-funded GRUNDTVIG project "OED: Outreach - Empowerment - Diversity" brings together expertise in the field of research and development of adult education. The overall aim is to tackle the need for outreach to marginalised groups, especially migrants and ethnic minorities, for the development of more diversity in adult education, for the inclusion of learners' voices, and for the empowerment of its learners to become active European citizens.
This article introduces a series of good practices which are available on the OED website. They will also be presented on the OED Facebook page during the next few weeks.
The first outcome of the collective efforts of the network is a collection of good practices. It brings together 28 examples of good practice from 13 partners in the European Union. These good practices were analysed by the German Institute for Adult Education, Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) in order to find starting points for professional development leading towards inclusive adult education. For this reason, the OED project is relevant to all adult education providers as a means to make progress in shaping inclusive adult education based on empirical evidence. Read more...