New York —Â With the rising costs of college, here are some of the top 10 myths about saving for college and how you should really save for it. Black Enterprise has provided a list of tips to handle the common myths associated with loans, financial aid, and other aid programs like the 529 college […]
Two years after its cancellation, “The Wire” has been given the respect given to authors like Dickens and Shakespeare, Hemingway or Langston Hughes. It has been given its own class at Harvard. Not only has it been given an undergraduate class at Harvard, but in this spring, “The Wire” will be taught at Harvard Law […]
Students at the University of Mississippi have picked the Rebel Black Bear as their new mascot.
USA Today is reporting that KFC has a unique marketing strategy to promote their “Double Down” sandwich. They are paying attractive college females $500 to wear sweatpants with “Double Down” and the KFC logo on the back where their butts are. Women on college campuses are being paid $500 each to hand out coupons while […]
All great businesses start with a bright idea. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine today release their eighth rankings of 25 top graduate and undergrad university programs for budding entrepreneurs, whose bright ideas can turn into successful businesses.
I don’t quote Ronald Reagan often, but the annual sight of parents taking new freshmen to college always reminds me of one of his sayings. Negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union, Reagan said that his principle was, “Trust — but verify”: We wouldn’t sign a treaty with the Soviets if there weren’t a basic […]
Homeless high school grad Orayne Williams is getting the ride of his life – a full scholarship to a four-year college.
In response to the U.S. Department of Education's release of the "Gainful Employment" rule, the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women (NOBEL/Women) strongly believes that the U.S. Department of Education must support the goal of increasing the number of college graduates among students rather than barring students from attaining higher education.
From USA Today: It was the summer of 1950, and Mary Jean Price, the salutatorian of Lincoln High School in Springfield, Mo., hoped to enroll at a hometown college and become a teacher but But this was four years before Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared denying black […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s colleges are attracting record numbers of new students as more Hispanics finish high school and young adults opt to pursue a higher education rather than languish in a weak job market.
