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Community Colleges

Survey: Most Young People Entering the U.S. Workforce Lack Critical Skills Essential for Success

A new survey of leaders from a consortium of business research organizations finds the incoming generation sorely lacking in basic work place skills, according to a report released Monday.

Appreciation: My Friend Earl Hayes

My friend Earl Hayes — a native of Baltimore and a tireless advocate for the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, an avid boater and a good friend to many across this great country — left us early on the morning of August 29, 2006 following a brief battle with throat and neck cancer.

Faculty & Staff

New Study: Gender Matters on Black College Campuses

NEW YORK Female faculty at public historically Black colleges seem to fare better in terms of ratings, salaries and tenure numbers when the president or chief academic officer is also female, according to a new study released Thursday by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.

Faculty & Staff

First Haitian-American College President Encourages Faculty to ‘Infuse Globalism into Their Curriculum’

BOSTON For a year and a half, Berotte Joseph has led Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, a prosperous Boston suburb that is a long way from the colonial-style neighborhood in Port-au-Prince where she spent her first eight years before emigrating to the United States in 1957.

Colleges Fail to Teach Students About America’s History, Says Report

According to a study commissioned by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and conducted by the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy, seniors at some of the nation’s most respected institutions graduate knowing less about American history than they did when they arrived on campus.

Faculty & Staff

Culture and Academic Performance

U.S. Census reports remind us that Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States…

Thumbs Up

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund for providing a full ride to Alan Newton, who was recently…

Leadership & Policy

Officials Abandon Fight to Save Troubled Compton Community College’s Accreditation

In its latest woeful chapter, Compton Community College’s accreditation has been formally revoked

Native Americans

Space Constraints Force Tribal College To Close Doors on Enrollment

A housing shortage on the campus of United Tribes Technical College has led the college to cut off enrollment…

Feds Tighten Financial Monitoring of Bishop State

Amid reports of possible fraud, Bishop State Community College must show proof of student eligibility…

Community Colleges

Minority Enrollment Lags In Race-neutral Washington

Despite eight years of effort, minority enrollment is still down at colleges and universities in Washington …

Keeping Black Poetry Alive

Thomas Sayers Ellis, assistant professor of creative writing at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College…

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