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News Roundup: Page 204
News Roundup
Bill Aims to Cut Need for College Remedial Courses
The Promoting Readiness in Education to Prevent Additional Remediation and Expense (PREPARE) Act, introduced by Democrat presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar and two of her Senate colleagues, is aimed at helping to reduce the need for students to take remedial courses when pursuing post-secondary education and improving degree-completion rates. The bill, sponsored by the Minnesota senator, […]
STEM
WVSU Offers Free ‘Rocket Girls’ Summer STEM Camp
Rocket Girls is a free day camp that will be offered this summer by West Virginia State University’s Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The camp will run July 29 through Aug. 2 at WVSU’s Institute campus and will provide girls ages 12 to 17 with information and hands-on instruction geared […]
Students
TICAS Calls on Congress to Address Disparities in College Funding
A new brief from The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) adds to growing research about disparities in college funding and the consequential impact on student outcomes. Titled “Inequitable Funding, Inequitable Results: Racial Disparities at Public Colleges,” the issue brief notes that community colleges and regional universities – schools that disproportionately enroll low-income students […]
News Roundup
Anonymous Gift Funds First Distinguished Professorship at the Eastman School of Music
The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music will establish the Paul J. Burgett Distinguished Professorship as a result of a recent gift from two anonymous university alumni. The endowed fund not only honors the legacy of alumnus Paul Burgett, it recognizes his lifelong commitment to music and education and his 54 years serving at […]
Disabilties
FSU Professors Receive IES Grants to Advance Special Education Research
The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) has awarded Early Career grants to Drs. Laura Steacy and Jenny Root, who are both assistant professors of special education in the Florida State University College of Education. Steacy and Root will receive $500,000 each over a four-year period to research ways to support students with learning disabilities. Steacy’s […]
Community Colleges
Pellissippi State Breaks Ground on Bill Haslam Center for Math and Science
Pellissippi State Community College broke ground Wednesday on its new, $27 million academic building, which will be named the Bill Haslam Center for Math and Science. The 82,000-square-foot Bill Haslam Center for Math and Science – named for the former governor of Tennessee – is expected to open for classes by fall 2021. Located on […]
Students
Dr. Constanza Cabello Named VP for Diversity, Inclusion and Community Engagement at Framingham State University
Dr. Constanza “Connie” Cabello has been named the first-ever vice president for diversity, inclusion and community engagement at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Cabello, currently the director of intercultural affairs and assistant to the president for institutional diversity at Stonehill College, will began her new role on July 15. She will be joined by incoming […]
News Roundup
CUNY Board Offers Reduced Tuition, Waives Application Fees for College Of New Rochelle Students
Students at the College of New Rochelle will have the opportunity to seamlessly continue their education at any City University of New York (CUNY) institution following a unanimous resolution passed by the CUNY Board of Trustees. The board’s resolution establishes an agreement between CUNY and the 115-year-old college that is closing this summer that allows […]
News Roundup
California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Receives ‘No Confidence’ Vote
For only the second time in its history, the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC) Board of Governors unanimously issued a vote of no confidence in the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. FACCC’s vote on Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley’s administration stems from the office’s “lack of transparency, disregard for shared governance, lack of prior […]
News Roundup
Leland to Step Down as UC Merced Chancellor
Dr. Dorothy Leland, who led a remarkable expansion of the University of California, Merced and was a champion for DACA students, will step down Aug. 15, ending an eight-year stint as chancellor. “I am grateful for all that we have accomplished together,” Leland said in an announcement Monday. “UC Merced’s distinction, both now and into […]
News Roundup
DePauw President Mark McCoy Stepping Down
GREENCASTLE, Ind. — The president of DePauw University in western Indiana says he plans to step down at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. The announcement came Monday from Dr. Mark McCoy, who has served as president of the Greencastle liberal arts school since 2016. He says in a statement administrators have focused on […]
Recruitment & Retention
Dartmouth College Gets $10 Million Donation
Dartmouth College has received a $10 million donation that will go toward a range of projects including the development of an arts district and faculty recruitment. The college on Friday announced it had received the donation from Dartmouth alumni Molly and Gregg Engles. A Dartmouth trustee, Gregg Engles is a founding partner of Capitol Peak […]
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