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Program to Help Pay for Community College for Detroit Grads
By Associated Press DETROIT — Detroit will start using state education tax dollars to fund a program that will pay for two years of community college for the city’s high school graduates. Detroit Promise scholarships will be available to students starting in 2018. The program follows promise zone legislation passed years ago by state lawmakers […]
African-American
PAULA JOHNSON
PAULA JOHNSON has been named president of Wellesley College, effective July 1. She was chief of women’s health at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Johnson earned a bachelor’s, an M.D. and a master’s from Harvard University.
Faculty & Staff
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Community Colleges
MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS
MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS has been named director of assessment in the Office of Academic Affairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was director of academic assessment at Baruch College (CUNY). Dorimé-Williams earned a bachelor’s from Saint Joseph’s University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Faculty & Staff
JULIA JASKEN
JULIA JASKEN has been named provost and dean of the faculty at McDaniel College. She was acting provost and dean of the faculty and an associate professor of English at McDaniel. Jasken earned a bachelor’s from the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota, a master’s from Northern Illinois University and a doctorate from Michigan Technological University.
African-American
NADINE SHIGEZAWA
NADINE SHIGEZAWA was appointed director of the Veterans in Transition to Academic Leadership (VITAL) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was a psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Shigezawa holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Community Colleges
Funding Still a Major Concern for Future Community College Leaders
League of Innovation leaders debate issues that will affect the new generation of community college leaders during a recent forum in Chicago.
Leadership & Policy
Baccalaureate Degrees in Growing Demand at Community Colleges
The Innovations conference’s opening general session in Chicago on Sunday focused on the growing trend to offer baccalaureate degrees at select community colleges across the country.
Community Colleges
Kentucky House Approves Free Community College
All students who graduate from Kentucky high schools, home schools or obtain their GEDs in Kentucky will be able to attend community colleges for free under a bill that passed the Kentucky House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill now moves to the state Senate. House Bill 626 requires students to apply for available student aid and […]
Women
Career Undermatching: The Higher Ed Issue You Need to Know About
Career undermatching describes the phenomenon in which talented, college graduates from low-income families wind up in jobs that don’t match their abilities or ambitions.
Community Colleges
Kansas House OKs Campus Faith Groups Restricting Membership
TOPEKA, Kan. ― Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday approved a long-delayed proposal allowing faith-based groups on college campuses to restrict their membership to like-minded people. Nearly a year after the Senate approved the bill, the Republican-controlled House voted 81-41 to send the bill to Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong supporter of religious rights. Supporters have said […]
Students
Poll: About Half U.S. Students Identify as ‘Hopeful’ and ‘Engaged’
Only about half of U.S. students are “hopeful” and “engaged” in school, while the rest are either not engaged or actively disengaged and stuck or discouraged, according to an annual Gallup Student Poll.
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