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Leadership & Policy
Community Colleges Appreciate Attention, Need Money
Grappling with soaring enrollment and plummeting state support, community colleges are grateful for attention from the Obama administration but disappointed money has yet to materialize to help them keep up with demand, let alone meet ambitious goals to make the U.S. the global leader in college graduates again by 2020.
African-American
Georgia NAACP Sues State For Underfunding Public HBCUs
The Georgia NAACP has sued the state, claiming it has systematically underfunded its three public Black colleges and threatened their survival as a result.
African-American
Minority-focused STEM Funding Plan Raises Equity Concerns
A debate has emerged over science programs at minority-serving institutions and how best to prepare more students of color for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Loss of guaranteed funding and potential increased competition for NSF grants jeopardizes MSI programs, advocates say.
Students
Report: For-Profit Schools Better Value for Low-Income Students Than Two-Year Publics
Researchers commissioned by a leading career college company released a report Thursday claiming that private-sector institutions increase access and student success among first-generation, low-income, and non-traditional students better than two-year public colleges.
Students
Obama Signs Law Sealing Health Care, Student Loan Reforms
Finalizing two major pieces of his agenda, President Barack Obama on Tuesday sealed his health care overhaul and made the government the primary lender to students by cutting banks out of the process.
Native Americans
Climate Change-Themed STEM Curriculum Developed for Tribal Colleges
An AIHEC partnership helps tribal colleges build capacity to sustain science and technology education and research programs.
African-American
Tech Savvy HBCUs Keeping Pace With Innovation, Others Lag
Closing the so-called digital divide is becoming less of a possibility for many HBCUs.
African-American
North Carolina HBCU Renegotiates Debt With $31 Million Federal Loan
One of the South’s oldest historically Black colleges has landed a $31 million federal loan that restructures several pieces of privately held debt.
Community Colleges
Adult Learners Key To U.S. Reclaiming College Completion Lead, Education Dept. Official Says
President Barack Obama’s goal to increase the number of two- or four-year degree holding Americans by 2020 will require significant investments in educating nontraditional-aged college students, a U.S. Education Department assistant secretary told TRIO program administrators Wednesday at the Council for Opportunity in Education’s annual seminar with Education Department officials.
Students
Meeting Brings Ohio University, HBCU Officials Together for Collaboration
Bridging the faculty-student digital technology divide was the focus of a conference held last week at Spelman College, launching the first meeting for a nine-member alliance among eight historically Black institutions and Ohio University.
Students
Student Loan Reform Changes Necessary To Avert Pell Grant Crisis, Advocates Say
House approval of a student loan reform plan will help alleviate a potential crisis in the Pell Grant program as growing numbers of low-income students seek to access the program during this recession, higher education advocates say.
Community Colleges
Board Votes to Allow Undocumented Immigrants Access to N.C. Community Colleges
North Carolina’s community college board has approved allowing illegal immigrants to enroll next year, a move that could drop a contentious issue in the lap of state lawmakers in an election year.
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