Nova Southeastern University

Talking Across Cultural Lines

NOVA Cultural

As one of approximately 800 African-American students attending Austin's University of Texas (UT) in 1975, Debra Nixon and other black students created their own community within the 39,000 student population. Nixon, now a Ph.D. and assistant professor and associate chairperson of the Department of Family Therapy in NSU's Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, confesses that she did not recognize how much of a cocoon she had created for herself.

Higher Colleges of Technology

  • Education Without Borders

    Every second year, hundreds of tertiary students from all over the world and from all walks of life gather in the United Arab Emirates for one purpose – to exchange ideas on how to make the world a better place.

    The platform for such intensive thinking, discussion and knowledge sharing is Education Without Borders (EWB) – one of the flagship conferences of the Higher Colleges of Technology.

Texas A&M University

  • Diversity is a common thread.

    When it comes to international research combined with community service and student support, Ranjita Misra, Texas A&M associate professor of health education, sets the bar. Her most recent projects, cross-cultural in nature, have extended beyond the United States to Mexico and India making the world her community-a community of respect she is sharing with her students.

University of South Carolina

  • Diversity at SC

    Attracting, supporting and graduating diverse, talented students who hail from the Palmetto State and from around the world is a paramount value of the University of South Carolina. The University works to ensure a diverse racial and ethnic make-up of our student body, and to prepare students for a diverse global marketplace.

Millersville University

  • Walker Center Opens

    Former Congressman Bob Walker was joined by Millersville President Francine G. McNairy and William Reuter, chairman, president and CEO of Susquehanna Bancshares, on December 10 to announce the Robert and Sue Walker Center for Civic Responsibility and Leadership. The Center will be part of the Civic and Community Engagement and Research Project (CCERP) on campus.

Northeastern University

  • Enriching Intellectual Life and Creative Expression

    The development of intellect and creativity is fundamental to all educational experiences-from the classroom to the conference room, from the library to the lab, and from the studio to the stage. All these settings provide contexts for learning. It is essential, however, to provide a balance of opportunities for students to explore and enrich their lives.

San Francisco State University

  • Limitless Horizons

    The students and faculty at San Francisco State University represent a range of ethnic groups, cultures, and life experiences. In fact, it's been said that when you walk across this campus, you experience the world.

DePaul University

  • Students balance mission and quality commitments

    DePaul University's success in enrolling Chicago Public School (CPS) students who graduate from its International Baccalaureate (IB) program has offered one solution to a conundrum universities across the country are facing: how to balance an access agenda with a desire to enroll students who can succeed in a college curriculum.

Longwood University

  • Longwood Program Tackles Diversity, Inspires Mentors

    There are 93,000 public schoolteachers in Virginia; only 600 of them are African-American men. In 2007, Longwood University launched a program to address this issue, becoming the flagship institution for the Call Me MISTER (Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) program in Virginia.