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LORNA LE’ANNE SHAW-BERBICK

LORNA LE’ANNE SHAW-BERBICK has been appointed dean of the university at Kentucky State University. She was dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the College of Saint Rose. Shaw-Berbick earned two bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of the West Indies, and a doctorate from Howard University.

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Catholic College in Massachusetts Closing

A small Roman Catholic college in Massachusetts has announced that it is closing at the end of the academic year due to “insurmountable financial challenges.”

Community Colleges

Oregon Debates Free Community College Plan

In just the last year or so, Tennessee adopted a plan for free community colleges, as did Chicago and the Community College of Philadelphia. Now the Oregon state legislature is debating whether to institute a similar program.

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Dolezal Sued HBCU For Racial Discrimination

The Spokane, Washington woman who has caused a firestorm of conversation about the ideas of “transracial” and “Wrong skin” identities resigned Monday from her post as the city’s NAACP president.

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UVA Names New Dorm ‘Gibbons House’ After 2 Former Slaves

The newest dorm at the University of Virginia has been named after two former slaves who became prominent community members after Emancipation.

WSU, Bellevue College Move Toward Potential Partnership

Washington State University and Bellevue College have taken another step toward a potential future education partnership.

Go to College? LeBron Didn’t, But Everyone Else Should

On choosing the “fellowship of educated men and women” before prematurely choosing the “Association.”

Leadership & Policy

Belton In as Southern President

The Southern University System chooses a current system chancellor to serve as system president and chancellor of the Baton Rouge campus.

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Community Colleges

Accrediting Body: Academic Fraud Nets UNC 1-year Probation

RALEIGH, N.C. ― An accreditation agency important to colleges receiving federal funds put the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on probation Thursday for a year over its academic fraud scandal. The board of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges stopped short of imposing the harshest penalty, which would have blocked […]

African-American

South Carolina State’s Probation Extended

Commission cited fewer shortcomings than it did a year ago when it first placed the institution at the edge of losing accreditation.

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LSU Educator Top Choice to Lead University of Alabama

A Louisiana State University administrator has emerged as the top choice to become the next president of the University of Alabama.

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