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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACC’s Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACC’s 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 […]
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
Students
Colleges in Washington State Launch Student Mental Health Programs
High-profile campus killings spur the creation of mental health teams at colleges across Washington state. The goal is to watch troubled students.
April 9, 2008
Community Colleges
Galliher Not Target Of Alabama Two-Year College System Probe
State Rep. Blaine Galliher said he has been told by federal prosecutors that he is not a target of the investigation of the state’s two-year college system.
April 9, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit
Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.
April 8, 2008
Leadership & Policy
College Leaders Say Ohio’s New Education Plan a Good Start
College administrators generally support Ohio’s new goals of making higher education more affordable through lower tuition and more accountable by setting up a system of benchmarks.
April 7, 2008
HBCUs
CNN Hosting HBCU Contest on Being Black in America
CNN is asking HBCU students what it means to be “Black in America” through its Campus iReporter Contest.
April 6, 2008
Community Colleges
Former Ala. Two-Year System Chief Pleads Guilty to 15 Federal Charges
The fired head of Alabama’s two-year colleges Roy Johnson formally pleaded guilty Monday to 15 charges in a far-reaching federal investigation of corruption in the state’s two-year college system.
April 2, 2008
Community Colleges
Ohio Plan Would Allow Adult Learners to Convert Certificates Into a Degree
The cost to attend an Ohio university would be among the lowest in the nation in 10 years under goals outlined Monday to reverse the state’s trend of high tuition and lower-than-average college attendance.
April 2, 2008
Latinx
MSIs Score Significant Victory in Congress
More minority-serving institutions are competing for and winning Homeland Security Department funding.
April 2, 2008
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Students
Community College No Longer?
Harper College’s effort to gain baccalaureate-granting status has sparked a debate in Illinois over the mission of two-year colleges.
April 2, 2008
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Students
Student Input Helps Community Colleges Improve Overall Experience
Focus groups find out what works in the classroom, on campus.
April 2, 2008
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