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Community Colleges

Colleges Trading Up Cafeteria Trays

Students will have to find other ways to sled this winter as U.S. colleges retire cafeteria trays to conserve water and energy and cut down on wasted food and water-polluting detergents.

Democratic Platform Promises More for Education

Education plan includes a tax credit for college students who perform community service and grants for community colleges.

Grooming a New Cadre of Faculty Leaders

The Leadership Alliance has produced more than 100 Ph.D.s, one-third of whom are now working in the academy.

Building a Friendly Environment for Hispanic Students

In 1963, Bob Dylan wrote and sang about how “The Times They Are A-changing.”

Native Americans

Alaska and Washington Schools Win Grants

Grants to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks Interior Aleutian campus and the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wash., have been announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Native Americans

$5 Million Awarded to Tribal Colleges

Seven Native American colleges and universities will share $5 million to expand, renovate, and equip their own facilities, to improve student housing, and to support construction of new facilities. the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced.

Le Cordon Bleu Miami Launches Culinary VIP Series

To support its Spanish-language program, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Miami (LCB Miami) is launching a Visiting Culinary VIP Series, which will bring leading industry restaurateurs, writers, chefs and consultants to the campus.

Social Justice Group Opens Dialogue on GLBT Issues With Equality Ride

There are more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities that have explicit policies discriminatory toward GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) students, according to Soulforce Q. Since 2006, this young adult division of Soulforce, a social justice organization seeking to end political and religious oppression of GLBT people through nonviolent resistance, has staged Equality Ride.

Leadership & Policy

‘On Fire’ for Bennett: A Conversation With President Julianne Malveaux

Dr. Julianne Malveaux, president of Bennett College, recently spoke to Diverse at the end of her first year as president of one of the nation’s only two historically Black colleges for women.

Colleges Spend Billions to Prep Freshmen

It’s a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college.

Scholars Blame Low Minority Retention in STEM on Affirmative Action

Minority students are leaving science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines in disproportionate numbers before graduating, because affirmative action may be placing students in rigorous academic settings for which they are not prepared, a panel of scholars told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Friday

Leadership & Policy

Texas Colleges Clean Up After Hurricane Ike

While emergency crews in southeast Texas continued rescuing victims and trying to restore normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Ike, the resumption of college classes in the region was uncertain late Sunday.

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