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Students Angry over Pricey Courses Pepper-sprayed
The dozens of student protesters who were pepper-sprayed by police at a California community college this week weren’t just angry about not getting into a meeting of school trustees.
Students
N.C. Central Implements Sweeping Cost-Cutting Plan
Restructuring at North Carolina Central University — announced in February as being “most comprehensive” — involves the merging or phasing out of more than a dozen academic programs.
Community Colleges
Commentary: Community College Campuses Provide an Accurate Reflection of Diversity
Higher education must stop viewing community colleges as drive-by institutions and recognize the significant contribution they are making to American higher education, writes New York-based college administrator Mary Hinton.
Community Colleges
Job Training Initiative, Campaigning on President Obama’s Agenda in Prince George’s County
In addition to highlighting a community college job training partnership in Prince George’s County, President Obama focused on the economic pain that Americans are feeling.
Community Colleges
Florida’s Higher Education Diversity Imperative
In a state with a booming Hispanic and steadily growing African-American population, the issues of access and diversity in higher education are almost always front and center.
Community Colleges
Study: Pell Grant Use Surges at Kansas JUCOs
A study of Kansas community colleges shows the number of students receiving federal financial aid jumped dramatically as the nation struggled to recover from the recession.
Latinx
Obama Plan to Raise Dropout Age Draws Mixed Reviews
Raising the high school dropout age may bring more focus to postsecondary education, but analysts express divergent opinions on how such a requirement would impact the dropout dilemma.
African-American
Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis
In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH
Community Colleges
Commentary: Florida’s Community Colleges Provide a History Lesson
Not only is the history of the civil rights movement inadequately taught to students today, but primary sources documenting the events of that era are being lost, an English professor at Florida’s Broward College writes.
Latinx
Civil Rights Project: California Maintains Segregated Community College System
The vast majority of Black and Latino students in California are being subjected to a “segregated” community college system where very few transfer to four-year institutions, researchers charged Tuesday as they released three reports.
Community Colleges
New Budget Targets Pell, Community Colleges
The Obama administration on Monday outlined a new federal education budget with an increase in the maximum Pell Grant and a major new $8 billion initiative to promote community college/business partnerships.
Community Colleges
Policy Forum: Research Necessary to Explain Dual Enrollment’s Full Impact Among Low-Income Students
While high school/college course enrollment programs lead to higher GPAs for some students, more research should develop a stronger link between the programs and post-secondary success, panelists asserted at a Washington forum.
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