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Leadership & Policy
Changing Frequency
Changing Frequency Newly formatted Black college radio stations work to jazz up their image, while serving campus and community NASHVILLE, Tenn.Before Fisk University’s radio station recently began using the tagline “Smooth Side Up” to refer to its new smooth jazz format, the station’s broadcasting image was upside down. At best, it played a hodgepodge of […]
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Students
Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules
Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules QUINCY, Calif.California community colleges and their faculty are not responsible for injuries to students who are engaged in off-campus assignments, a state appellate court has unanimously held.The decision bars a suit by a Feather River Community College student who suffered crippling injuries when she was thrown […]
Community Colleges
Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination Lawsuits
Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination LawsuitsSALT LAKE CITYSalt Lake Community College is facing a federal lawsuit from several employees who claim the school has discriminated against them. The suits claim the college has created a hostile work environment for minorities and that White employees enjoy preferential treatment. An SLCC spokesman, Joy Tlou, said the […]
Community Colleges
UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers
UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers BERKELEY, Calif.Community college student Anoop Kaur expected to work hard and make good grades to transfer to the prestigious University of California. She didn’t expect her future to depend on whether state officials have the smarts to handle California’s money troubles. Last month, students such as Kaur got […]
HBCUs
Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars
Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars CHAPEL HILL, N.C.The cost of repairing mold-infested buildings at North Carolina Central University could be millions of dollars more than expected and is draining NCCU resources, a state university committee learned last month.There are indications that fixing the problem could cost much more than the […]
HBCUs
HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher Education
HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher EducationBy Ben Hammer Historically Black colleges and universities will receive assistance in the form of a $4.5 million grant to prepare future teachers on how to teach reading based on scientifically proven instruction methods. U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige made the announcement last month at an event […]
HBCUs
Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft Award
Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft AwardNEW YORKThe Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) has announced that nine of its 45 member colleges and universities will be receiving new Microsoft software for technology upgrades, which is part of a $15 million software grant from the Microsoft Corp. The schools, which are public historically […]
Students
Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow
Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]
Faculty & Staff
Diverse City
Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]
Leadership & Policy
NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing Institute
NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing InstituteDURHAM, N.C.North Carolina Central University and the state’s biomanufacturing industry received a $19.1 million boost last month from a nonprofit corporation created as a result of the state’s tobacco litigation. The Golden LEAF Foundation, created in 1999 by court order, agreed to award the university the money to construct […]
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Community Colleges
On the Road to Reauthorization
On the Road to ReauthorizationWith the Higher Education Act up for reauthorization, the fate of student aid and the future of colleges’ regulatory independence is uncertainAs Congress returns to work this month, it has plenty on its plate, but all eyes and hopes in higher education will be pinned on the reauthorization of the legislative […]
HBCUs
Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications
Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications WASHINGTONHoward University’s Continuing Education department held the 20th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop for more than 25 participants from around the country. Faculty, students, government and private-sector experts attended the workshop for training in the use of GIS and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies. GIS […]
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