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Leadership & Policy

Interim Chancellor Brings Healing Touch to

Chancellor of the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District for just three years…

Faculty & Staff

An HBCU Transformed

Few institutions have embodied African-American history as completely as Wilberforce University…

Leadership & Policy

In the Line of Duty

Dr. Jane Buck, who spent almost her entire career teaching psychology at Delaware State University…

HBCU First In North Carolina

Education majors at North Carolina Central University will be using Apple iPod technology and iTunes software…

Professional Appointments

Dr. Elsa Nuñez has been appointed president of Eastern Connecticut State University. She is currently vice chancellor for academic and student affairs for the University of Maine System. Nuñez holds a bachelor’s from Montclair State University, a master’s from Fairleigh Dickenson University and a doctorate from Rutgers University. Tracie Alcorn-Abraham has been appointed executive director […]

Faculty & Staff

Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors

Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.

Community Colleges

Knoxville Firm to Convert Black College Into Condos

A real estate company has bought the Morristown College campus at auction and plans to convert the site into condominiums and retail space.

HBCU Boosts Aid to Limit Student Debt

Beginning this fall, academically gifted, low-income Virginia State University students will get enough financial aid to cover 100 percent of their college costs through a new program to limit the debt burden of students at the historically Black university.

Faculty & Staff

HBCU Conference: Faculty and Community Plan For Future Hurricanes

Within days after the current hurricane season began, a consortium of academics and community organizers gathered in Jackson, Miss., to confront the likely possibility that Hurricane Katrina was not their last deadly storm.

Pell Grant Increase Considered

U.S. House Republican leaders are proposing a $100 increase in the maximum Pell Grant next year, a move that may pave the way for the first increase in program funding since 2003.

Perspectives: Colleges Should Muster Courage To Fight Back

The attack on programs that recruit and retain Black students will have broad consequences on the economic well-being of Black America unless we fight back.

Leadership & Policy

New Chancellor Seeks to Heal Tensions at Embattled Dallas College

When Dr. Jesus “Jess” Carreon, the first Hispanic to head the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District, abruptly resigned last month, the board of trustees quickly turned to Dr. Wright Lassiter, who had been president of the district’s El Centro College since 1986. Wright, who became the district’s first Black chancellor, spoke with Diverse about the healing touch he plans to bring to the embattled community college system.

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