cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupIowa Program Aims to Inspire Minority TeachersCEDAR FALLS, Iowa — A diverse group of high school students have spent a week living on a college campus in Iowa to learn what it’s like to be an educator. Fifteen students participated in the week-long Minority Educators for Today and Tomorrow academy hosted by the University of Northern Iowa, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier […]June 26, 2017StudentsBaylor: NCAA Investigation ‘Ongoing, Pending’AUSTIN, Texas — The NCAA is conducting an “ongoing, pending investigation” into Baylor University in the wake of a sexual assault scandal that led to the firing of football coach Art Briles and the departure of the school president, the school’s lawyers confirmed in a federal court filing. Baylor officials acknowledged the investigation while asking […]June 26, 2017StudentsPromised College Loan Forgiveness, Borrowers Wait and WaitBOSTON — Danielle Ramos’ student-debt nightmare was supposed to be over. Like thousands of others who studied at failed for-profit colleges, she was promised by the U.S. Education Department under President Barack Obama that her federal loans would be forgiven by now. But as the weeks tick by with no reprieve, the 30-year-old college student […]June 26, 2017StudentsMystery of Missing Chinese Scholar Shakes Up University of IllinoisCHICAGO — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially. But just weeks after arriving […]June 26, 2017Leadership & PolicyAkinleye Named New Chancellor at N.C. Central UniversityDURHAM, N.C. — Johnson O. Akinleye has been elected the new chancellor at N.C. Central University, where he has served as interim chancellor since January. Akinleye was elected to the position during a special meeting of the UNC Board of Governors on Monday. He was named acting chancellor in August 2016 when then-chancellor Debra Saunders-White […]June 26, 2017African-AmericanExperts: Minority Successes Don’t Mean an End to STEM Diversity IssuesPanelists discussed the state of STEM from the diversity viewpoint last week at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., after the screening of Crystal Emery’s “Black Women in Medicine.”June 25, 2017Faculty & StaffResearchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational OutcomesA new report examines racial inequity in education and offers recommendations based off of research which touches on structural barriers that need to be overcome in order to improve educational outcomes for racial groups.June 25, 2017StudentsSome 2-year Colleges Test-driving New ModelDougherty Family College is among a wave of two-year colleges that offer associate’s degrees but are not the standard community college in other ways.June 25, 2017StudentsHomeless College Students a Growing Concern on CampusesDETROIT — Jennifer Carr knows she’s not the profile of a typical college student. The Detroit-area woman is 37 and has battled alcohol and heroin addiction. She’s also been homeless in the past and even now is categorized as someone who is precariously housed. Carr’s story is not unusual. Studies suggest thousands of students at […]June 25, 2017StudentsReport: Losses Mount at Bethune-Cookman UniversityDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A historically Black university in Florida is dealing with mounting financial problems. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Sunday a review of tax documents showed annual losses at Bethune-Cookman University have climbed over a three-year period from $254,000 to $17.8 million. The paper said that tax returns show that salaries are increasing […]June 25, 2017Previous PagePage 494 of 3225Next Page
