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Faithful to its mission: Donnelly College provides second chances to inner-city students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. Donnelly College is blessed with a gift. Despite repeated monetary incentives to move from its poor, inner-city environment, it has remained in a single nine-story brick building – an old hospital gutted and rebuilt into a place of learning.

Community Colleges

Report urges greater public investment in higher education

The Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE) released a two-year study that warns a “growing shortfall in public funding may force the nation’s colleges and universities to turn away half the student population by the year 2015.”

As discussion gets started, legislators seek elimination of government’s affirmative action policies

As President Bill Clinton was defending the use of affirmative action in college admissions, members of Congress rolled out a plan to abolish such preferences in the awarding of government funds.

The meaning of the numbers – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority college graduates

The analysis of degrees conferred to students of color in the United States continues this year with the simple objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.

Leadership & Policy

Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995

Community Colleges

“We definitely cannot drop the goals of affirmative action”: a discussion with Dr. Carmen Neuberger, Gwendolyn J. Dungy and Joyce Smith – Panel Discussion

Countless studies have shown that what happens outside of classrooms plays a crucial role in whether students attend college and continue in college to graduation. High school guidance counselors, admissions officers and campus student service officers all play a part in matching the right student to the right campus and then making sure the students feel a part of campus life.

Community Colleges

Judge says Alabama college system discriminated against women; ruling alludes to history of gender bias and “good-ol-boy” patronage

An Alabama federal judge has drawn a damning portrait of the state’s community college system, describing it as riddled with gender discrimination and rife with political patronage.

Black coaches convention focuses on job-hunting strategies; collegiate athletic directors, sensitized to concerns, participate in interview clinics

Concerned about the paucity of Black coaches and athletics administrators on college campuses, the Black Coaches Association (BCA) devoted a major portion of its annual conference, held last month in Miami, to helping its members prepare and successfully compete for positions in higher education.

Faculty & Staff

Inspiration & information produced at NISOD conference – National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development

AUSTIN, Texas Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton was not about to let Cleveland leave Cuyahoga Community College behind on the city’s road to revitalization.

Leadership & Policy

Baton Rouge CC opening still on hold; rebel shopping center to be part of desegregated campus

BATON ROUGE, La. The long-awaited opening of a community college that will help integrate this city’s higher education community will have to wait a little longer.

Community College Photo

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

Leadership & Policy

Conceptual shift needed to diversify higher education

At a recent meeting in Los Angeles, the American Association of Community College board of directors unanimously approved a statement on inclusion.

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Kean University

Administrative Secretary

Old Dominion University

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Virginia Commonwelath University

Fayetteville State University

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