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NUL National Higher Education Summit to Focus on Equity, Affordability

By every measure, the nation’s higher education system is failing the nation’s poor and minorities, leaving the most vulnerable communities behind. College completion rates for students of color are abysmal: Barely 40% of black students and barely half of Hispanic students complete four-year degree programs within six years of enrollment, compared with more than 60% of white students.

HBCUs Take Green Initiative

HBCUs Take Green Initiative

Last month, the Alliance for Climate Protection, an organization headed by former vice president Al Gore, and Environmental Justice and Climate Change (EJCC), an advocacy group, formed an initiative to enlist historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to help encourage blacks to go green.

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