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MSIs
Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements
For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.
February 9, 2010
State of Union
Students
La. College Commission Suggests Restructuring
The final list of recommendations from a higher education restructuring panel would shift the way dollars are divvied up among Louisiana’s public college campuses and reshuffle governance of the schools.
February 7, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Miss. HBCU Merger Proposal Halted; JSU President Faces Scrutiny
Public discussion in Mississippi has now moved from merging the three HBCUs to how to adequately fund them and, more recently, what the future holds for Jackson State President Ronald Mason.
February 3, 2010
Jackson State President Ronald Mason (pictured) will appear at a campus town hall meeting on Feb. 9.
HBCUs
Activists Mobilize, Students Organize Town To Preserve Mississippi HBCUs
Alumni And Students Organize Town Hall Meetings And A Protest Rally To Pressure Mississippi Lawmakers Into Nixing College-Merger Proposal.
February 3, 2010
Students
Noteworthy News – Standing Up for the Count
With federal dollars on the line, colleges are working to prevent an undercount of college students in the 2010 Census.
February 3, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Struggling Through the Cuts
California students and faculty grapple with the effects of draconian state cuts to postsecondary education that have topped more than $1 billion in the last year.
February 2, 2010
University of California employees demonstrate in San Francisco.
Latinx
Obama Budget Plans More for Education
Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.
February 1, 2010
President Barack Obama
Leadership & Policy
JSU President Defends Black College ‘Unity’ Plan
Jackson State University (JSU) President Dr. Ronald Mason has received a sharp rebuke from Black lawmakers and supporters of historically Black colleges and universities over his proposal to unite JSU with the state’s other two historically Black universities.
January 31, 2010
Ronald Mason
African-American
Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge
An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.
January 28, 2010
Students
Academy Standing Up for the Count
With federal dollars on the line, colleges are working to prevent an undercount of college students in the 2010 Census.
January 28, 2010
Dr. Charlie Nelms, chancellor of North Carolina Central University
Community Colleges
Scholars Tout Community College Revitalization
The Washington-based Center for American Progress released three research papers Wednesday detailing how the nation’s community colleges can help lead the revitalization of U.S. postsecondary education and reinvigorate American work-force development for the 21st century.
January 27, 2010
President Barack Obama at Macomb Community College
HBCUs
World Bank Seeks Diverse U.S. Employees
This past fall the World Bank launched a new chapter in its long-running diversity and inclusion efforts by inaugurating the US Minorities Working Group.
January 25, 2010
World Bank
Students
Health Care Debate Carries Implications for College Students
While pundits in Washington, D.C., assess the effect of the Massachusetts Senate outcome on the future of health care reform, college leaders also are focusing on another stumbling block to final action: how the government will treat health plans for 3 million college students.
January 24, 2010
Health Care
HBCUs
Grants And Gifts
The Danforth Foundation has awarded WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST. LOUIS) $30 MILLION to establish the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. The center will convene public conferences and lectures to address local, state and national issues related to religion and politics. NASA has granted FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY $1 MILLION to establish the Minority Innovation […]
January 20, 2010
Students
Community College Forum: Is Diogenes on Your Campus?
Community colleges must prize integrity by deliberately developing proactive, innovative and inclusive strategies to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students.
January 20, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Banking On Diversity
Boasting a racially and culturally diverse work force, the World Bank aims to spread awareness about its mission to increase employment of under-represented U.S. minorities.
January 20, 2010
Students
A Cut Below
California students and faculty grapple with the effects of a state budget crisis in postsecondary education.
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases
Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.
January 20, 2010
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