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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

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

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

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

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

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

A Cut Below

California students and faculty grapple with the effects of a state budget crisis in postsecondary education.

January 20, 2010

Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases

Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.

January 20, 2010

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

January 19, 2010

Community Colleges

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 19, 2010

African-American

Haiti’s History Created Bond With Many U.S. Blacks

While a terrible earthquake anywhere in the Caribbean would hit a sympathetic nerve in most Americans, Haiti holds a unique place in the hearts of many American Blacks.

January 19, 2010

Lottery-winning Alumnus Donates $10 Million to South Carolina HBCU

Hoping to spread the joy of a $260 million Powerball lottery jackpot, the Rev. Solomon Jackson has donated $10 million of his “good fortune” to his alma mater, Morris College, a historically Black college in Sumter, S.C.

January 19, 2010

U.S. Colleges, Universities Offer Rapid Relief Responses to Haiti

Higher education institutions are raising money and gathering supplies for earthquake-stricken Caribbean island.

January 14, 2010

Five Questions for Soledad O’Brien

Diverse correspondent María Eugenia Miranda spoke with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien about covering communities of color.

January 14, 2010

CNN’s Soledad O’Brien

Community Colleges

Obama’s Higher Ed Goals At Odds With States’ Budget Realities

LOS ANGELES – States’ higher education systems must dramatically overhaul themselves if they intend to fulfill President Obama’s goal of remaking America home to the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020, experts said during a conference held by the University of Southern California.

January 14, 2010

Rare Intellectual Gems and Timely Topics from the University Press

Before the dawn of 2010, many book writers, reviewers and bloggers offered assessments of the literary offerings of the past 12 months. A few even ventured to sum up the decade.

January 11, 2010