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Community Colleges

Indiana Governor To Propose Free Community College Plan

Gov. Mitch Daniels wants every high school graduate in Indiana to attend college for at least two years — and he is working on a proposal that would have the state pick up the tab for more of them to do just that.

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Win Grants To Spur Economic Growth

Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps.

Leadership & Policy

Texas Southern University President Plans New Direction for University

Texas Southern University has spent the last two years in the headlines because of financial mismanagement and the firing of previous president Priscilla Slade. Dr. John Rudley, the newly appointed president of TSU, discusses the new vision for the Houston historically Black university.

Community Colleges

PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST

Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.

African-American

REVISITING A CLASSIC

Things Fall Apar t is being brought back to center stage after 50 years for its role in shaping modern African literature.

Native Americans

DIVERSIFYING PEDAGOGY

Indigenous Ways of Knowing has been making its way out of tribal colleges into mainstream universities, but this method of teaching has its critics.

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACC’s Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACC’s Center for Workforce Development. BRYN MAWR (PA.) and SPELMAN COLLEGES (GA.) have received a four-year, $1.1 MILLION grant from the National Science Foundation […]

Chicago-area Colleges Reopen After Graffiti Threats

Two colleges returned to normal class schedules Tuesday after a promised doomsday scrawled in graffiti came and went without incident, and another university was preparing to reopen Wednesday.

HSI Leaders Appeal For Increased Funding

With the White House proposing cuts for their favored programs next year, leaders of Hispanic-serving colleges and universities descended on Washington, D.C., this week to state their case for more, not less, funding for fiscal year 2009.

Colleges in Washington State Launch Student Mental Health Programs

High-profile campus killings spur the creation of mental health teams at colleges across Washington state. The goal is to watch troubled students.

Community Colleges

Galliher Not Target Of Alabama Two-Year College System Probe

State Rep. Blaine Galliher said he has been told by federal prosecutors that he is not a target of the investigation of the state’s two-year college system.

Leadership & Policy

Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit

Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.

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Administrative Secretary

Old Dominion University

Adjunct Instructor, Honors College - Flourishing (Rolling Pool)

Virginia Commonwealth University

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology

Kean University

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor in Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry (R0008842)

Wake Forest University

Virginia Commonwelath University

Fayetteville State University

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