
Colleges give high school students a head start
BY LANNING TALIAFERRO
The Journal News
Ossining High School students have four ways to earn college credit in English before they ever set foot on a college campus.
Historically black colleges straddle America's racial fault line
By ARLENE LEVINSON The Associated PressJEFFERSON CITY, Mo.-- There's a saying at Lincoln University: "White by day, black by night."
A hilly, picture-pretty campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by black Civil War veterans. It was once revered as the black Harvard of the Midwest. Today the school is 70 percent white.
Recent grads urge applicants to make overnight college visits
DAYTON -- After all the glossy presentations and official welcomes, how will you know which college offers you the best fit?
By The Associated Press