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Baskerville Named Fifth President of NAFEO
Baskerville Named Fifth President of NAFEOSILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) late last month named Lezli Baskerville, a Washington, D.C., activist-attorney, to become the fifth president of the umbrella association of the nation’s 118 public and private, two- and four-year historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities. Baskerville had […]
Students
Republican Plan for Proprietary Colleges Draws Fire
Republican Plan for Proprietary Colleges Draws FireShould for-profit, proprietary institutions be considered in the same way as traditional nonprofit schools? The House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing June 16 to consider how federal funding is doled out to proprietary schools under the proposed College Access and Opportunity Act, a […]
Students
Report Dubs ’90s ‘Decade of the Community College’
Report Dubs ’90s ‘Decade of the Community College’By Kathleen Kennedy ManzoDubbing the 1990s the “Decade of the Community College,” a new report from the American Council on Education (ACE) says public two-year colleges saw a bigger enrollment boom during that decade than other higher education institutions did.Enrollment at public two-year colleges jumped 14 percent between […]
Faculty & Staff
New Answers to Old Questions
New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]
Latinx
Service is in Her Blood
Service is in Her BloodThe daughter of noted blood bank pioneer Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis is no stranger to the spotlight. Yet, it is from her own political and educational pursuits that she has become a well-known figure in the Washington, D.C., area. After working as a research scientist at the National […]
HBCUs
Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUs
Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUsNEW YORKWorldwide educational services leader Kaplan Inc. announced it has become the exclusive K-12 partner for EDU Inc., a unique service for historically Black colleges and universities that enables students to apply to 29 member institutions through a single common application. Under the terms of […]
Community Colleges
Michigan Officials Discuss Plan to Encourage Students to Study Science, Engineering
Michigan Officials Discuss Plan to Encourage Students to Study Science, EngineeringMACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. State officials are refining a plan to offer interest-free loans to students who pursue degrees in science and engineering, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said recently. State treasurer Jay Rising is working on details of the initiative, which will include a requirement that […]
Students
Selected Community Colleges to Participate in Initiative To Increase Student Success
Selected Community Colleges to Participate in Initiative To Increase Student SuccessINDIANAPOLIS Twenty-seven community colleges in five states will participate in “Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count,” a new initiative designed to enhance the academic success of low-income and minority students. Each college will receive a $50,000 investment grant to develop plans for addressing this challenge […]
Leadership & Policy
Congressional Republicans Host Fifth Annual Forum for HBCU Presidents
Congressional Republicans Host Fifth Annual Forum for HBCU PresidentsSeventy-seven presidents of historically Black colleges and universities attended the Fifth Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Congressional Forum in Washington, D.C., on June 8 and 9. The forum, established by former U.S. Congressman J.C. Watts, R-Okla., in 1999, was begun as an initiative for Congressional […]
Community Colleges
Grants & Awards
Columbia Gorge Community College (Ore.) has received a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor for health care worker training. The grant will help train some 200 health-care workers over the next two years including registered nurses, certified nursing aids and emergency medical technicians.The Colorado State University System has been awarded $250,000 from […]
Community Colleges
Technology: Riding the Waves of Change
Technology: Riding the Waves of ChangeBy Ronald Roach Twenty years of information technology (IT) innovation have transformed American higher education. From the introduction of personal computers to the spread of the Internet and e-mail, information technology innovation has altered the communications, administrative, research and teaching landscapes of colleges and universities. Its reach has permeated throughout […]
Students
On The Right Path
On The Right PathOver the past 20 years, colleges and universities continue to experience an increase in the number of American Indian/Alaska Native students receiving degreesAccounting for only 1 percent of the total U.S. population, American Indians have a 60 percent to 70 percent high school dropout rate, the highest among all minority groups. At […]
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