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Community Colleges: Page 251
Leadership & Policy
Baton Rouge CC opening still on hold; rebel shopping center to be part of desegregated campus
BATON ROUGE, La. The long-awaited opening of a community college that will help integrate this city’s higher education community will have to wait a little longer.
Leadership & Policy
Conceptual shift needed to diversify higher education
At a recent meeting in Los Angeles, the American Association of Community College board of directors unanimously approved a statement on inclusion.
Community Colleges
Virginia system seen as model of things to come
Richmond, Va. John White doesn’t care if his university football team wins. He doesn’t pal around with other students in the dorm. He doesn’t do keg parties.
Students
Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted
Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.
Community Colleges
Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet
It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.
Latinx
Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem
For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.
Students
California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out
SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.
Students
U of North Alabama First In State To Offer Culinary Arts Degree
FLORENCE Ala. The University of North Alabama is the state’s first four-year public college to cook up a culinary arts degree.
Community Colleges
Bishop State Gets Transition Team to Help Fix Financial Problems
MOBILE, Ala. Alabama College System chancellor Bradley Byrne has created for Bishop State Community College a transition team, lead by the administrator to replace outgoing president Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, to help the college recover from the financial scandal that has threatened the predominately Black institution’s accreditation.
Students
Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary
Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.
Students
Private scholarships for minorities challenged
Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.
Students
Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.
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