Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Institutions: Page 442

Leadership & Policy
Reinventing Alumni Associations
To remain relevant, alumni associations must do more than plan class reunions and promote their schools, experts say.
Students
Grants & Gifts
AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Texas) has received a $35,305 grant from the Texas Workforce Commission for 68 scholarships for two camps that provide students handson experience in computer programming and design. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO has received a $260,000 grant from Worldwide, HP for the Lyles College of Engineering to receive wireless tablet personal computers, wide-format […]
HBCUs
Confederate Archives Find Unlikely Transcribers
When Ariel Brown was offered a chance to transcribe the correspondence of the first family of the Confederacy, the history major with a keen interest in the South seized the opportunity.
HBCUs
New Executive Director Named To Head White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last Friday the appointment of Dr. John Silvanus Wilson Jr. as executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
hb1
African-American
John Brown Exhibit on Display at West Virginia University
Nineteenth century sketches depicting the trial and hanging of abolitionist John Brown, and the uniform of a Confederate militia commander who helped halt his Harpers Ferry insurrection are on display at West Virginia University.
Community Colleges
Obama Says Education a Key to Economic Rebound
Conceding unemployment will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $12 billion plan to help community colleges prepare millions of people for a new generation of jobs. Challenging critics, he said he welcomed the task of turning around the economy.
Students
Some Undergrads Shave a Year Off College to Save
While educators debate the wisdom of three-year college degrees, some ambitious students are going ahead and finishing their coursework in three years anyhow as a way to save thousands of dollars in tuition.
HBCUs
President Obama Taps Xavier Alumna Dr. Regina Benjamin for Surgeon General
President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family physician and Xavier University of Louisiana alumna, to be the next Surgeon General.
Leadership & Policy
California College Officials Charged With Misuse of Funds
The former chancellor at the City College of San Francisco has been charged with making illegal campaign contributions and steering public funds to a secret account used in part to buy liquor and pay parking tickets, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Community Colleges
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM
Lethbridge is a small city of approximately 83,000 people located in Alberta, Canada, an hour’s drive north of the Montana border. The landscape in this region is striking — a combination of flat prairie grasses…
Students
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Tenured Faculty at Two-year Schools Impact Student Transfers
State articulation and transfer agreements do little to increase the number of community college students who transfer to fouryear institutions, but having tenured faculty at the community college level helps.
Faculty & Staff
SPECTRUM:A POINEER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
In 1978, Joe McDonald of the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribes dreamed of a decent building for the newly created Salish Kootenai College. At the time, classes were being held in an abandoned building on the Flathead Reservation in Montana.
Previous Page
Page 442 of 645
Next Page
Find A JobPost A Job
Featured Jobs
Research Program Specialist
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Program Associate, Career Advancement and Alumni Engagement
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Mental Health Counselor
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Assistant or Associate Professor-UMCES Chesapeake Biological Lab
University of Maryland Center For Environmental Science
AI Risk Governance Fellow
The University of Alabama
Premium Employers
The trusted source for all job seekers
We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions.
Read More
The trusted source for all job seekers