David PluvioseCommunity CollegesAACC Awarded $3.2 Million Grant to Boost Programs for Older LearnersMany businesses anticipate mass worker shortages as baby boomers retire and are looking to two-year colleges to fill the coming skills gap. However, many of these older workers can’t afford to retire and are needing new skills to keep up with new jobs created in this age of ever-changing technology.October 3, 2007HBCUsWhite House HBCU Initiative Chief Quits During Contentious Board MeetingOn the job for slightly over a year, White House Initiative on HBCUs Executive Director Charles Greene has called it quits. This came at a meeting of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs last week, in which several members expressed frustration with Greene for failing to deliver on time a completed 2004-05 report on federal agencies’ grant activity with HBCUs.October 2, 2007Leadership & PolicyCommunity College Aims to be First to Sponsor Presidential DebateClark College in Vancouver, Wash., may be the first community college to ever sponsor a presidential debate. In partnership with the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission of Portland, Ore., Clark aims to convince the Commission on Presidential Debates to select the Oregon Convention Center to host the candidates.September 25, 2007Community CollegesPromoting La Cultura HispanaASU’s Hispanic Research Center advances the arts and works to produce homegrown talent in the STEM fields.September 19, 2007HBCUsWhite House HBCU Initiative Chief Quits During Contentious Board MeetingOn the job for slightly over a year, White House Initiative on HBCUs Executive Director Charles Greene has called it quits. This came at a meeting of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs last week, in which several members expressed frustration with Greene for failing to deliver on time a completed 2004-05 report on federal agencies’ grant activity with HBCUs.September 16, 2007Faculty & StaffSparks Fly at HBCU Week Session on Wage Disparities StudyWashington Hundreds of top administrators and faculty gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the HBCU Week Conference, which concluded Tuesday. Attendees were exposed to a wide array of programming focused on a “fulfilling the covenant” theme, inspired by Tavis Smiley’s best-selling book, The Covenant With Black America.September 11, 2007HBCUsU.S. Civil Rights Commission Condemns Affirmative Action In Law School AdmissionsThe U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is condemning affirmative action in law school admissions and calling on Congress to mandate law schools to publicly disclose their use of racial preferences in a report that critics say relies heavily on the questionable research of one anti-affirmative action advocate.September 9, 2007LatinxHispanic Outreach By Non-HSIs Lacking, Study IndicatesHispanic-serving institutions make up only 6 percent of all colleges, but enroll half of all Hispanic college students, raising questions in a new study about outreach and diversity efforts at majority schools.September 5, 2007Community CollegesSAAB Tackling the Black, Brown Male CrisisIncreasingly, dropping out of high school is a one-way ticket to prison for Black men.September 5, 2007HBCUsReport: Federal Aid to Schools Devastated By Hurricane Katrina Woefully InadequateWASHINGTON Gulf Coast schools decimated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita two years ago are still waiting for promised federal help, a new report finds. The study, released Wednesday by the Southern Education Foundation, reveals that a lack of government intervention has caused as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students to stay out of school.August 29, 2007Previous PagePage 11 of 19Next Page
