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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.

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.

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

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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.

Washington Update

HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress

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.

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.

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