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The University of Dayton (OH) Fall 2020 undergraduate minority enrollment is better than the national average. The private, Catholic university’s recruiting efforts in the spring helped attract a record number of students from socioeconomic, racial and ethnic diverse backgrounds, officials said. It is also the only school among Montgomery and Greene County colleges that gained undergraduate students from nearly all racial and ethnic groups. 

Several private colleges say their high sticker prices have scared students off in the past and that newly announced tuition resets were planned long before COVID-19 struck.

Crystal R. Sanders writes: HBCUs are important producers of Black female leaders. Many of these colleges have fostered an institutional climate that makes room for the ideas, voices and leadership of their female students. From their inception in the 19th century, HBCUs have promoted a more inclusive idea of “We the People,” by providing educational opportunity to African Americans, Native Americans and women before it was common to do so. The diversity we see in American politics today is in large part due to these institutions, which nurtured Black leaders, political thinkers and strategists.

Controversial pandemic pronouncements test an uneasy relationship.

The Faculty Senate at the University of Notre Dame voted by a 29 to 13 margin in favor of a resolution expressing disappointment in President John I. Jenkins’s actions during a Sept. 26 White House event he attended where masking and social distancing protocols were not followed, the South Bend Tribune reported.