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Section: Institutions
Faculty & Staff
MONICA PONCE DE LEON
MONICA PONCE DE LEON has been appointed dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. She was dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. Ponce de Leon earned a bachelor’s from the University of Miami and a master’s from Harvard University.
June 29, 2015
Students
Bowie State President: HBCUS Must Be Competitive
For the second year in a row, a diverse group of college presidents, chancellors, deans and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities spent four days strategizing over how best to meet the needs of their students.
June 28, 2015
Community Colleges
ED Scraps Plans for College Ratings System
The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is shelving plans to move forward on a controversial college rating system and instead will offer a tool providing data that allows the user to compare schools to each other.
June 25, 2015
Students
Diverse on the Go
Senior Writer Jamal Watson is attending the 2015 HBCU Student Success Summit in Atlanta at the Omni Atlanta Hotel today through Saturday.
June 24, 2015
African-American
HBCUs, HSIs Equipped to Aid Incarcerated Youth
A 2013 study by RAND concluded that prisoners were 43 percent less likely to be imprisoned after release because of educational programs.
June 24, 2015
HBCUs
Washington State Might Name Med School for Floyd
SPOKANE, Wash. ― Support is growing to name the new Washington State University medical school for Elson Floyd, the school president who died last weekend of complications from colon cancer.
June 23, 2015
Community Colleges
Court Upholds Tough Rules on For-profit College Loans
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday that the Department of Education can demand that for-profit schools prove that their graduates make enough money to repay their student loans.
June 23, 2015
Leadership & Policy
An Open Letter from Orangeburg to Charleston
If the lessons learned from “yesterday’s sorrow” do not frame new patterns of action which abort or prevent “tomorrow’s” insult or injury, then what does ‘I am sorry’ really mean?
June 23, 2015
HBCUs
2 African-American Scholars Taking on New Challenges
Two leading African-American education scholars are taking on new roles at separate institutions when the academic school year resumes in August.
June 23, 2015
Faculty & Staff
2nd Trial Begins in Conservative’s Bias Claim Against University of Iowa
After years of arguing that liberal Iowa law professors illegally derailed her career, a conservative lawyer will get a second chance to prove her claim to a jury.
June 22, 2015
Sports
Vermont State College Seeks to Increase Completion Rate
WATERBURY, Vt. ― Fewer than half of Vermont’s high school graduates go on to get college degrees, and the Vermont State College system is trying to find ways to change that and make sure those who do go on to college complete it.
June 22, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Washington State President Floyd Dies
Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University since 2007, died Saturday morning of complications from colon cancer.
June 22, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty
Early career faculty from minority-serving institutions across the nation converged on the University of Pennsylvania recently for a three-day boot camp focused on professional development.
June 21, 2015
Community Colleges
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June 18, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Jackson State Presents $42M Plan to Buy Land for New Dorm
Jackson State University officials want to issue $42 million in bonds to finance construction of a new dormitory on campus.
June 18, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Judge Denies Freed Illinois Man Certificate of Innocence
A Cook County judge on Thursday denied a certificate of innocence to a man whose murder conviction was overturned, saying the man’s own actions led to a finding of his guilt—including a confession that helped free a death row inmate in a case key to ending capital punishment in Illinois.
June 18, 2015
African-American
S.C. State Granted Extension of Loan Repayment
The state’s Budget and Control Board has agreed to grant its request to extend repayment of a $6 million loan.
June 18, 2015
Faculty & Staff
City College of San Francisco Advocates Clear Another Hurdle
Advocates of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) have been locked in a lawsuit since 2013.
June 18, 2015
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