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Professor Slashed with Box Cutter Allegedly Groped Woman

RICHMOND, Va. — According to a police report a Reynolds Community College professor allegedly touched a 24-year-old woman’s buttocks before she slashed him with a box cutter. The Richmond Times Dispatch reports that a Virginia State Police complaint states that the woman, Brittany Leigh Burfield, went to the officer of Douglas Gava at about 12:30 […]

Report: MSIs Key to Texas Reaching Higher Ed Goals

Currently, 35 percent of young adults in Texas age 25-34 hold an associate’s degree or higher. Texas’ goal is to raise that number to 60 percent by 2030.

William Casey Boland

California Looks to Add More Four-year Degree Programs to Community Colleges

A new bill, SB 769, would double the number of four-year degree programs that the community college system can offer from 15 to 30.

Dr. Constance Carroll is chancellor of the San Diego Community College District.

Achieving the Dream Promotes 7 Principles to Help Students Succeed

Several thousand educators from nearly 265 community colleges throughout the nation are meeting this week to strategize over how best to support and enhance student success work at their respective institutions.

Faculty & Staff

As the Academic World Turns, Leadership Evolves

The following trends stand out as significant and influential in terms of how colleges and universities operate.

Report: Financial Pressure Swamping Community College Students

Despite relatively low costs, a Center for Community College Student Engagement report found that nearly half of all students said they were considering dropping out due to financial pressures.

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Leadership Encouraged HBCUs a Part of National Conversation

At an executive leadership forum, HBCU leaders across the HBCU spectrum gave their take on digital media, veteran students, student success and retention, and other topics of interest for HBCUs.

Dr. Michael Lomax

African-American

Advocates Cautiously Optimistic About Potential Executive Order on HBCUs

While there has been no word from the White House on when the order might be released and what directives it might contain, organizations have laid out their own proposals for what the order could accomplish.

Johnny C. Taylor, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund

DeVos Says Community Colleges Key to Workforce Development

Community colleges will play an important role in advancing President Donald Trump’s workforce agenda, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said at a meeting of community college leaders Thursday. It was DeVos’ first appearance at a conference event in her new role.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

Leadership & Policy

Kentucky State Presidential Search Accompanied by Controversy

Kentucky State University’s search for a new president has run into a rolling storm of troubles amid widespread criticism this week from across the university’s community over its search committee’s recommendations.

Aaron Thompson is Kentucky State’s interim president and is not currently under consideration to take on the job on a permanent basis.

Leadership & Policy

Trump Issue Dividing Howard University Administration, Students

In a town hall meeting on Tuesday night, students expressed disappointment that the administration of the nation’s flagship historically Black university had not done more to put itself at the frontline of resistance to the new administration.

Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Lara Thompson Navigates an Unconventional Route

Step into the engineering lab of Dr. Lara A. Thompson, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, and you will quickly get a glimpse of why she loves what she does.

Dr. Lara A. Thompson (Photo courtesy of John Spaulding)

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