Monica Levitan (EDU)Community CollegesNOVA’s Outgoing President Reflects on Tenure and Appointment as President of Wake TechDr. Scott Ralls, who is currently the president of Northern Virginia Community College, also known as NOVA or NVCC, has been named president of Wake Technical Community College, effective May 1.January 2, 2019News RoundupIllinois Tech and College of DuPage Establish Agreement to Assist Student Transfer PathwaysIllinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) and the College of DuPage have recently partnered on a Guaranteed Admission Agreement in an effort to help DuPage students easily transfer to select Illinois Tech undergraduate programs, such as its College of Architecture and Armour College of Engineering. Under the new agreement, DuPage students pursuing an Associate of Arts or […]January 2, 2019StudentsUW-Whitewater Names Dr. Cheryl Green as Interim ChancellorDr. Cheryl Green, vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Oshkosh, has been appointed interim chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Before she joined the UW-Oshkosh faculty, Green was assistant vice president for student affairs at Tennessee State University. Green has over 25 years of experience working in higher education and student affairs, […]January 1, 2019News RoundupReport: OSU Makes Strides in Achieving College AffordabilityThe Ohio State University (OSU) has made strides in making college education more affordable for its students, according to a new report from the Ohio chancellor of higher education. Public colleges and universities in Ohio have saved a combined $320 million in institutional funding in the 2018 fiscal year, and approximately $179 million of that […]December 28, 2018News RoundupSecond-Oldest All-Women’s College to Begin Admitting Transgender WomenStephens College, the second-oldest all-women’s college in the country, has implemented a new admissions policy that will allow transgender women, but not transgender men, to be admitted into the institution. The Missouri college has been considering the policy change since 2014, according to The Hill. The new policy states that Stephens will “continue to admit […]December 28, 2018Latest NewsReport Shows Varied Progress in Achieving Equality in NYCA new report by the City University of New York (CUNY) highlights a complicated narrative about equality in New York City. Overall citywide levels of inequality improved slightly compared to the 2015 baseline, with positive and negative results across certain areas.December 28, 2018News Roundup10-Year-Old Math Genius Esther Okade Enrolls as a College StudentEsther Okade, a 10-year-old from Walsall, England has just become one of the country’s youngest college freshmen after enrolling at Open University, a UK-based distance learning college. Okade, a math prodigy, first began her freshman year in January 2018 and is already the top of her class, scoring a 100 percent in a recent exam, […]December 28, 2018News RoundupBates College Appoints Noelle Chaddock as Vice President for Equity and InclusionDr. Noelle Chaddock, currently the associate provost and deputy Title IX coordinator at Rhodes College, has been appointed vice president for equity and inclusion at Bates College, effective June 1. Chaddock also previously served as chief diversity officer at the State University of New York at Cortland. In this new role, Chaddock will work with […]December 28, 2018News RoundupFormer Lehigh University Student Charged with Poisoning RoommateYukai Yang, a former chemistry major at Lehigh University, is charged with attempted murder after a months-long investigation concluded he tried to poison his roommate by putting deadly chemicals into his food and drink. The victim, Juwan Royal was shocked after hearing about Yang’s actions, and said that he believed they had a good relationship, […]December 20, 2018News RoundupCourt: University of Mary Washington Could’ve Done More to Protect Students from Online HarassmentIn a 2-1 decision, judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said that University of Mary Washington (UMW) officials could have done more to protect its students from online harassment. The case reached the court after members of Feminists United, a student-run feminist organization, sued the university in 2015 for adopting […]December 20, 2018Previous PagePage 32 of 58Next Page
