cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupTop Higher Ed Groups Create New DACA Resources WebsiteSeveral influential higher education groups have created a new website, ‘Remember the Dreamers’, that will provide information and resources for students and institutions on what efforts are being made to help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, students. Many of these students are also called ‘Dreamers’, after the Development, Relief and Education for Alien […]May 8, 2020News RoundupHistorically Black Lincoln University Declares ‘Financial Exigency’Lincoln University, a historically Black institution in Missouri, has declared ‘financial exigency,’ reported the News Tribune. According to a Forbes article from March, “declaring financial exigency is a doomsday scenario to be used only by institutions facing such imminent and severe financial circumstances that the survival of the institution as a whole is threatened.” Lincoln […]May 8, 2020HBCUsMaryland Gov. Vetoes Bill Allotting $577 Million to Four State HBCUsMaryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have allotted $577 million to the state’s four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) over the course of 10 years, reported The Washington Post. The passage of the bill would likely have settled a 2006 federal lawsuit. Hogan cited the economic uncertainty created […]May 7, 2020COVID-19U of Tennessee System Plans for In-Person Fall Classes on All CampusesThe University of Tennessee system is planning for in-person classes on all campuses this coming fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, reported WATE. “If the outside conditions change, if local or state governments change directions, then we will have to reevaluate, but we are planning on classes in the fall,” said university president Randy Boyd. He […]May 7, 2020COVID-19Dr. Alyce Gullattee, Oldest Professor at Howard U, Dies After COVID-19 DiagnosisDr. Alyce Gullattee, a professor of psychiatry at Howard University’s College of Medicine and the institution’s oldest faculty member, died last week after testing positive for COVID-19, reported The Washington Post. She was 91. Dr. Gullattee, who was a faculty member at Howard for more than 50 years, was a pioneering psychiatrist and civil rights […]May 7, 2020StudentsCalifornia Higher Ed Leaders Call for Emergency Aid for DACA StudentsHigher education advocates in California wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday calling for the utilization of state and federal relief funds to provide emergency financial aid during the COVID-19 pandemic for more than 82,000 low-income California college students, including nearly 12,000 undocumented students supported by the California Dream Act. They also called for a […]May 7, 2020COVID-19Advocates Push for COVID-19 Benefits for Working College StudentsDuquesne University graduate student Terrell Nelson works part-time as a leasing agent at an apartment complex, and due to the COVID-19 pandemic, his hours have been reduced by more than two-thirds causing his income to plummet. What’s more, under the latest pandemic-related legislation passed by Congress, Nelson and numerous other working college students have been […]May 7, 2020African-AmericanYou Matter: Essential Home Daycare Professionals During the COVID-19 PandemicAs a former early childhood teacher and current associate professor of early childhood education, I am concerned, to put it mildly, about essential education professionals being overlooked or discounted in discussions and policies for P-12 teachers and brick and mortar schools. There are thousands of families depending on home daycare providers to teach and care for their children. I suspect the need has increased since this health pandemic, and those in dire need are families who live in poverty and the working poor, a disproportionate percentage of whom are Black and Latinx.May 7, 2020COVID-19After COVID-19, Sharp Drop in Lowest-Income FAFSA Renewals for 2020-2021New data shows there has been a sharp drop in FAFSA renewals from lowest-income students as well as overall for the 2020-2021 cycle compared with the year-ago period, suggesting the coronavirus pandemic might impact fall enrollments, said the National College Attainment Network, in a statement Wednesday. The network analyzed federal data showing FAFSA completions from […]May 6, 2020HBCUsSeveral HBCUs Say They Need Additional Funding to Upgrade Technology for Online ShiftSeveral historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this week said they need additional federal funding during the pandemic to bridge the digital divide their institutions’ students face and to shore up technology to conduct online classes, reported BroadbandBreakfast and the Montgomery Advertiser. At a discussion Monday, hosted by the Federal Communications Commission, many HBCU college […]May 6, 2020Previous PagePage 122 of 3226Next Page
