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Section: Institutions
Faculty & Staff
The People’s Choice
In this issue Diverse profiles UMass Amherst chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy, one of the few South Asian college presidents in the country. He has made diversity a central focus, winning praise from inside and outside the institution.
July 3, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Howard-Vital Steps Down as Cheyney University President
Cheyney University is the latest HBCU to experience a swift change in leadership, about a month before undergraduate students are scheduled to return to campus.
July 3, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Process to Pick New College President in Philadelphia Proves Problematic
The unconventional search process for a new community college president at CCP managed to both frustrate faculty and embattle a mayor and new president.
July 3, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Saginaw Valley State Gives Police Data on City’s Crime Trends
Saginaw Valley State University professors and students have shared with police their recent work to identify crime trends in Saginaw, noting poverty and vacant homes as key factors in the city.
July 2, 2014
Community Colleges
For-Profit College Company Doesn’t Seal Deal With Feds
Corinthian Colleges Inc. and the Education Department failed to meet a deadline to plan the future of the company’s 100-plus campuses, but both remain optimistic.
July 2, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Napolitano Aims to Grow University of California Role in Fighting Hunger
University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she plans to leverage the state’s role in agriculture and research to tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems: food.
July 1, 2014
Students
Booker T. Washington Descendant: Fight for Quality Education Constant
Amanda Washington, Booker T. Washington’s great-great granddaughter, assesses the state of education 50 years after the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
July 1, 2014
Leadership & Policy
Southern University System Names McClinton as Interim Chancellor
The Southern University System Board of Supervisors selected Flandus McClinton Jr. to serve as acting chancellor for Southern University Baton Rouge.
June 30, 2014
HBCUs
Jurors to Get Case in Ex-South Carolina State University Trustee’s Trial
Jurors are expected to begin deliberating the fate of a former South Carolina State University trustee charged with corruption.
June 30, 2014
Students
Sexual Assaults on Campus? Administrators Should Heed Tips from Renowned Reporter
After his latest major story, higher ed officials should be reading and following Walt Bogdanich’s work in The New York Times and using it as a cautionary tale.
June 30, 2014
Students
Student Loan Interest Rates Increasing
Interest rates go up today for students taking out new federal loans. This hike is relatively minimal but could foreshadow more increases to come.
June 30, 2014
Students
Grimes, Warren Hit McConnell on Student Loan Debt
Brandon Davis has an undergraduate degree, a law degree and more than $200,000 in student loans ― which is why he is living with his future in-laws.
June 29, 2014
HBCUs
Millet Named Stillman College President; Warrick in as Grambling State Interim
Peter Millet is taking over permanently as president of Stillman College as the sixth president of the historically Black school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
June 29, 2014
African-American
Confrontation Between Campus Security, Professor Puts Arizona State in Spotlight
Physical encounter involving Dr. Ersula Ore reignites an age-old discussion among academics about how minorities — including minority faculty — are policed by campus officers who are charged with safeguarding the university and its surrounding areas.
June 29, 2014
HBCUs
Wilberforce University Faces Potential Loss of Accreditation
Documents released Tuesday reveal that Wilberforce University, the nation’s oldest private historically Black university, has been notified that its accreditation is in jeopardy.
June 26, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Winthrop University Fires President After Less Than a Year
Winthrop University fired its president after less than a year, saying she violated the Rock Hill college’s nepotism policy by hiring her husband, lied to trustees and was rude, hostile and demeaning to faculty, her own staff and school leaders.
June 26, 2014
Students
Study Finds Taking Class Online Does Not Necessarily Improve Outcomes
The authors found that there is no compelling evidence that online learning systems can deliver improved educational outcomes across the board, at scale, on campuses other than the one where the system was born and on a sustainable basis.
June 26, 2014
Students
Cornell University Alumni Endow First Africana Studies Center Lectureship
Cornell University alumni Reuben A. Munday and Cheryl Casselberry Munday have created an endowment that will allow the university’s Africana Studies and Research Center to bring in a leading scholar of African and African-American studies to the Ithaca campus for an annual lecture.
June 25, 2014
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