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Students
Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College
Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?
Faculty & Staff
Faculty focus on technology
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.
Community Colleges
Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized
Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.
Faculty & Staff
The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities
SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’
Faculty & Staff
Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College
Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College
HBCUs
Charting journalism degrees
The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.
Leadership & Policy
White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College
Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Leadership & Policy
The Community College Presidency at the Millennium. – book reviews
If anyone doubts Dr. George B. Vaughan is the nation’s leading expert on the community college presidency, the publication of this new book should lay that to rest.
Leadership & Policy
To educate a nation; Native American tribe hopes to bring higher education to an Arizona reservation – Tohono O’Odham Nation, Papago Indian Reservation, Sells, Arizona
When the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s surveyed its members last year about barriers that they faced to obtaining a college degree, recurring themes kept cropping up. The nearest college to the Sells, Arizona community was more than an hour’s drive away. Moving to a city with a college was not an option for others. And many found the high cost of big-city rent prohibitive.
HBCUs
Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment
JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.
Community Colleges
Proprietary preference – for-profit colleges
One of the surprises emerging from Black Issues’s analysis of the top one hundred institutions conferring degrees on people of color was in the rise of proprietary colleges as major players — particularly in the fields of engineering-related technologies, computer science, and business.
Students
Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York
The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.
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