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Community Colleges
Number of UNC administrators increases
The number of administrators at the University of North Carolina system schools has grown 28 percent in the past five years a newspaper analysis reported.  The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Monday that the rate is faster than the growth of teaching positions or student enrollment.  According to The Charlotte Observer, the analysis shows […]
Community Colleges
Md. Community colleges riding new wave in higher education
Many students in the state of Maryland are deciding to head to community colleges this fall.  Community colleges are seen as an option for education and an avenue for jobs.  According to the Baltimore Sun, at the Community College of Baltimore County, fall enrollment is expected to be 20 percent higher than last year. At […]
HBCUs
Are Endowments Making a Rebound?
For more than a year, college endowments have been an investment train wreck, but things appear to be turning around.
evans
African-American
Black Male Enrollment at Mississippi Institutions Lags
A task force commissioned by the Mississippi College Board to recommend ways to improve Black male college enrollment has not made much progress despite having more than a year on the job.
Community Colleges
Many Dallas-Fort Worth graduates struggle in college
They passed their TAKS exit exams and collected their high school diplomas – yet a troubling number of Texas students struggle their first year in college. According to the Dallas Morning News, at some North Texas high schools, half or more of graduates who go to college earn less than a C average their first […]
HBCUs
Woman with no known relatives donates large sum to university
A homeless woman who lived out of a shopping cart in Manhattan had secretly amassed a small fortune and stunned a university when she left it $100,000 upon her death.  According to NBC New York, the 92-year-old Holocaust survivor — who appeared destitute and had no known relatives — bequeathed the large sum to Hebrew […]
Community Colleges
Undocumented Immigrants Spend Millions Extra on Tuition
More than two years after Arizona voters passed a law denying in-state college tuition and other state-funded benefits to undocumented immigrants, thousands of people are still applying for those services and being turned away.
HBCUs
Community colleges play critical role in American Graduation Initiative
Higher education, particularly community colleges, has a significant role to play in helping the Obama administration achieve its goal of creating a more educated work force to boost the struggling U.S. economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday.
Sports
Ferrum College volleyball team earns national academic honor
Ferrum College’s volleyball team is one of 77 NCAA Division III squads which has received a team academic award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) for 2008-09. According to the Franklin News-Post, this marks the first time that Ferrum has earned the AVCA’s top team academic accolade. © Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.com
HBCUs
Rising Tuition Rates, Recession Having Impact on Students, Schools
Many of the nation’s colleges and universities are raising tuition for students this school year, and the economic recession is having an effect on several Minority-Serving Institutions.
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times
As more people head back to school in these recessionary times, many community colleges across the United States are struggling to handle the influx of new students.
African-American
CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE
For more than two decades, Dr. Warren M. Washington, one of the nation’s leading meteorologists, has been among the U.S. scientists that have studied and predicted the long-term impact greenhouse gas emissions.
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