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Section: Institutions
Students
Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges
Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.
March 4, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Making Strides
HBCUs seek progress on information technology resources.
March 4, 2008
Community Colleges
College Graduates With Career-oriented Majors Out Pace Those With Academic Majors
A college degree pays, and not just in knowledge and experience, but in dividends too.
March 4, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Diverse Calendar
March 13-15 Eleventh Annual Regional HBCU Summit on Retention “Improving Retention at HBCUs: Retention is a Shared Enterprise” Clarion Resort Hotel Ocean City,Md. Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd Phone: (301) 860-3687 e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15 Faculty Resource Network at New York University “The Molecules of Life: A National Dissemination Conference” Grand Hyatt Atlanta Phone: (212) […]
March 3, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Antioch Alumni Determined to Keep College Open
Alumni of Antioch College in Ohio want to keep the school open, even if it means holding classes off campus.
March 3, 2008
Students
Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
HBCUs
UNCF Partners with Public Policy Organization to Recruit HBCU Students for Fellowship Program
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation is helping the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program recruit more students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
February 28, 2008
Community Colleges
Wisconsin Officials Consider Community College Baccalaureate Plan
Adults who have some college credits but never finished four-year degrees could earn their diplomas at one of the state’s 13 two-year colleges, under a proposal being developed by University of Wisconsin System officials.
February 27, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Alabama House Panel OKs Contentious Community College Oversight Bill
A House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would give a legislative panel the right to review and approve policy changes in Alabama’s two-year college system.
February 27, 2008
HBCUs
ETS and HBCU Deans Work to Improve Students’ Praxis Scores
Deans and other administrators from teacher-education programs at historically Black colleges and universities who attended a conference at the Educational Testing Service here say they are taking back information to give their students a better chance at passing qualifying and certification tests.
February 21, 2008
Community Colleges
More High-achieving Students Are Choosing Community Colleges First
Two-year colleges are increasingly serving high-achieving students, while at the same time, trying to avoid mission creep.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
Obama Lays Out Community College Plan at Campaign Stop
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama detailed a plan to strengthen community colleges, including making community college free for some Americans, during a campaign stop Saturday in central Wisconsin.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
Legislator Targeted Amid Alabama Two-year College System Probe
State Rep. Todd Greeson says his office at Northeast Alabama Community College was visited by federal agents who subpoenaed co-workers in a probe of Alabama’s two-year college system.
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
All In The Family
Last February, associate editor Toni Coleman looked into whether DNA tracing was an expensive waste of time, given the increasing popularity of African-Americans setting out to learn their African lineage.
February 20, 2008
HBCUs
Alumni Giving To HBCUs Declined in 2007
Charitable contributions to colleges and universities increased in 2007, while alumni giving decreased, including a 6 percent drop at historically Black colleges and universities, according to a report released by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).
February 20, 2008
Community Colleges
How One Community College Gave Displaced Factory Workers the Confidence to Enroll
PROBLEM A few years ago, hundreds of displaced factory workers in southern Iowa were looking for training to reintegrate into the workforce when the Exide Battery Corp., closed shop in the area and they were laid off. ACTION Community leaders, administrators from Southeastern Community College in Burlington, Iowa, and displaced workers gathered to come up […]
February 19, 2008
HBCUs
Morgan State Audit May Lead to Criminal Investigation
Auditors’ findings that Morgan State University made up to $2.4 million in “questionable” and duplicate payments to Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. may lead the state attorney general to launch a criminal investigation into the matter, according to a Baltimore Sun report. The auditors, who work for the Maryland state legislature, found contract irregularities with Morgan State’s […]
February 19, 2008
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