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Community Colleges
The Changing Face of Journalism
The business climate affecting journalism has radically changed over the years. Mergers between entertainment companies and news organizations have contributed to what many journalists see as an erosion of seriousness in the news media.
Community Colleges
Pittsburgh college offers classes to potential casino workers
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh’s planned casino has yet to get its license, but the Community College of Allegheny County is already offering courses to those who would want to work in the gambling hall.
HBCUs
The Shape Of 1998
“You’ve got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night.” So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen’s new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.
Community Colleges
College Cancels “Happy Slaves” Class
ARCHDALE, N.C. Community college officials cancelled the final class of a Civil War history course that featured controversial claims by its instructors that most slaves were happy in captivity.
Students
On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM
Community Colleges
Colleges Get Ready to GEAR-UP
Colleges and universities should prepare for a quick start of the new federal GEAR-UP for College program, says U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), one of the program’s chief architects.
Leadership & Policy
Fighting to Survive
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. This slowly decaying, city, once called “America’s Soweto,” is so impoverished that it lost its city hall six years ago in a court judgement to a creditor.
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Students
The Epitome of Inequality
Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity
HBCUs
1998 Ad
ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.
Students
Washington Update
HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress
Students
Grants & Awards
The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.
Community Colleges
Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.
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