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Bush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education Agenda

Bush Offers Glimpse of a Second-Term Education AgendaBy Charles DervaricsPresident Bush in early September outlined a second-term education agenda that includes more Pell Grant support for low-income students, new funds for community colleges and a collection of other proposals designed to spur K-12 reform and college access.“In this time of change, most new jobs are […]

Leadership & Policy

An Insider Moves Front & Center

An Insider Moves Front & CenterBy Ronald RoachLezli Baskerville is no stranger to the ways of Washington. As the fifth president and the first woman to head the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), Baskerville brings more than two decades of Washington-based advocacy and legal experience to the task of representing the […]

Investing in HBCU Leadership

Investing in HBCU LeadershipSouthern Education Foundation creates three-year initiative to facilitate HBCU accreditationBy Crystal L. KeelsKnoxville College, Morris Brown College and Barber Scotia College. These institutions are just some of the recent victims of lost accreditation — and there are others. Many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have either teetered on the brink, suffered […]

TMSF President, Veteran Journalist Chronicle

TMSF President, Veteran Journalist Chronicle History of Black Colleges in New BookTrying to gain a better understanding of historically Black colleges and universities when he became president of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund in 1999, Dwayne Ashley couldn’t find anything that had been written about HBCUs that was comprehensive. “You’ve got all these scholarly books […]

Power Play: HBCUs Seek Clout in Washington

Power Play: HBCUs Seek Clout in WashingtonBy Ronald RoachAs president of Langston, a historically Black land-grant state university in Oklahoma, Dr. Ernest Holloway says it’s gratifying that his school and the other historically Black schools covered by the Higher Education Act’s (HEA) entitlement grant programs have seen consistent increases in HEA program monies over the […]

Faculty & Staff

Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report Says

Two-Year Schools Overworked, Undervalued, Report SaysBy Garry BoulardWASHINGTONFor those who are still not certain that community colleges really have a role to play in the nation’s higher education story, a small series of statistics is undoubtedly eye-opening: In 1965, 1.2 million students attended two-year schools. By 1998, that number was up to 5.7 million with […]

FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation

FAMU’s College of Law Granted Provisional Accreditation TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The American Bar Association has granted provisional accreditation to the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law. The College of Law will have an enrollment of 300 students this fall. The ABA’s announcement means that FAMU students will now be able to sit for Florida’s state […]

Faculty & Staff

Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year Students

Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year StudentsBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoMisperceptions and a lack of coordination between community colleges and four-year institutions combine to create significant obstacles to baccalaureate degrees for two-year students, according to a report that culminates an 18-month study and marks a rare collaboration between the different higher education sectors.“Central to a […]

Fighting the Same Fight

Fighting the Same FightA change in leadership often has a way of re-energizing the troops so to speak. Armed with new ideas and a fresh perspective, new leaders can get those around them to think “outside the box” — often for the first time in a long time.Our cover story for this edition looks at […]

Leadership & Policy

Brave New Leadership

Brave New LeadershipWith community college presidents retiring left and right, what’s an open-access institution to do? Leadership programs just might be the answerAs community colleges grapple with some of the most pressing issues they’ve ever faced — teacher shortages, swelling enrollments and budget cuts, to name a few — those at the helm of the […]

Leadership & Policy

In Not So Good Company

In Not So Good CompanyAnother HBCU loses its accreditation, but with new leadership Barber-Scotia College is meeting its challenges head onBy Tracie PowellCONCORD, N.C.It’s not every day that a college president hand delivers a check to the city to clear up more than $75,000 in unpaid utility bills, but for Dr. Gloria Bromwell-Tinubu, the newly […]

Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College Textbooks

Congress Questions Sky-High Costs of College TextbooksBy Peggy OrchowskiWhy are textbooks costing community college students almost 50 percent of what they pay for tuition each year? Some members of the U.S. Congress and higher education officials sought to find an answer to that question at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill that explored the reasons […]

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