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Section: Institutions
Latinx
PBIs Make Gains in Washington
Predominantly Black institutions are recognized with a new federal grant program and proposed funding in the new HEA bill.
April 30, 2008
Community Colleges
How Do You Say, âMay I See Your License?â
Despacito. The echo followed â despacito â as some 18 Lafayette Parish sheriffâs deputies mouth the word â which means âslowlyâ â in Spanish for their instructor, Nancy Gomez.
April 29, 2008
Community Colleges
Higher ED Leaders in California Protest Budget Cuts
The leaders of the California Community College, the California State University and the University of California systems have come together to petition policymakers in the state capitol to resist deep budgets cuts for public higher education.
April 29, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Orangeburg Massacre Survivor Named College President
Cleveland Sellers, a survivor of the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, was named president of Voorhees College on Tuesday by the schoolâs board of trustees.
April 22, 2008
Native Americans
American Indian Higher Education Consortium Prepares for New Leadership
Carrie Billy of the Navajo tribe will take over the position of executive director of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium effective June 1.
April 21, 2008
Community Colleges
Arizona Bill Would Ban Race-conscious Organizations on Public Campuses
Students attending Arizonaâs public schools, community colleges and universities may be restricted from operating race-based organizations on campus following a proposal recently approved by a state legislative panel.
April 20, 2008
Community Colleges
Perspectives: Banning Affinity Groups Shows Lack of Understanding
On most college campuses, the term âself-segregationâ only applies when students of color choose to establish associations. Self-segregation is itself a political, ideological and racialized term. Thus, this attempt in Arizona to legislate integration shows a stupendous lack of understanding of the fraud that often masquerades as campus diversity efforts, as well as the reality of the experience of many racial minority students on predominantly White campuses.
April 20, 2008
HBCUs
Black Colleges Seek More Support From Alumni
Making money, administrators at Virginia State University have learned, takes money.
April 17, 2008
Students
âAlarmingâ Number of Community Colleges Blocking Access to Federal Loans, Report Finds
Though the majority of four-year colleges in the United States participate in federal student loan programs, a new report finds that an âalarmingâ number of community colleges donât participate, prompting low-income students to resort to credit cards and other high-interest loans to pay for basic college expenses.
April 16, 2008
Community Colleges
Indiana Governor To Propose Free Community College Plan
Gov. Mitch Daniels wants every high school graduate in Indiana to attend college for at least two years â and he is working on a proposal that would have the state pick up the tab for more of them to do just that.
April 16, 2008
Latinx
Hispanic-Serving Institutions Win Grants To Spur Economic Growth
Colleges will receive much-needed funds from a Labor Department program, which works closely with businesses to fill work force gaps.
April 16, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Texas Southern University President Plans New Direction for University
Texas Southern University has spent the last two years in the headlines because of financial mismanagement and the firing of previous president Priscilla Slade. Dr. John Rudley, the newly appointed president of TSU, discusses the new vision for the Houston historically Black university.
April 16, 2008
Community Colleges
PUTTING FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS FIRST
Faced with a growing population of first-generation students, many colleges are undertaking unique initiatives to recruit and retain these students.
April 16, 2008
African-American
REVISITING A CLASSIC
Things Fall Apar t is being brought back to center stage after 50 years for its role in shaping modern African literature.
April 16, 2008
Native Americans
DIVERSIFYING PEDAGOGY
Indigenous Ways of Knowing has been making its way out of tribal colleges into mainstream universities, but this method of teaching has its critics.
April 16, 2008
HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACCâs Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACCâs Center for Workforce Development. BRYN MAWR (PA.) and SPELMAN COLLEGES (GA.) have received a four-year, $1.1 MILLION grant from the National Science Foundation [âŚ]
April 16, 2008
HBCUs
Chicago-area Colleges Reopen After Graffiti Threats
Two colleges returned to normal class schedules Tuesday after a promised doomsday scrawled in graffiti came and went without incident, and another university was preparing to reopen Wednesday.
April 15, 2008
Latinx
HSI Leaders Appeal For Increased Funding
With the White House proposing cuts for their favored programs next year, leaders of Hispanic-serving colleges and universities descended on Washington, D.C., this week to state their case for more, not less, funding for fiscal year 2009.
April 15, 2008
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