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Section: Institutions
Community Colleges
Conference Identifies Innovative Practices for Community Colleges
Education practitioners gathered at the 2018 League for Innovation in the Community College Conference on Monday to discuss and promote innovation in teaching and learning across the community college landscape.
March 19, 2018
HBCUs
Regional HBCUs Move to Recruit Students at Closing Concordia
When word spread that Concordia College – a small historically Black college in Selma, Alabama – was closing its doors, nearby institutions sprang into action to recruit their students. Talladega College and Oakwood and Alabama State universities are offering students options to transfer.
March 15, 2018
Community Colleges
San Diego Community College District Models Support for Men of Color
San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) has strategically increased its support of Hispanic and Black men in the last few years, making the district a leader in improving outcomes for the historically underserved groups.
March 14, 2018
HBCUs
What About Cheyney University? We Rose First!
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world, Nelson Mandela said in his 2003 speech, “Lighting Your Way to a Better Future.” Enslaved people who sought freedom through education and abolitionists who used education as a catalyst to end slavery understood this idea. So did Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys, who […]
March 13, 2018
MSIs
Students Could Save Thousands Under New Senate Bill
More than a dozen co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate have reintroduced legislation that would make the cost of community and technical colleges more affordable to students. More than a dozen co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate have reintroduced legislation that would make the cost of community and technical colleges more affordable to students.
March 8, 2018
Students
Foundation Report Advises on College ‘Promise’ Programs
A report issued this week by a nonpartisan think tank suggests that states considering “free college” policies should avoid unfair cost-containment strategies, communicate with students and families and make bolder investments in higher education.
March 7, 2018
HBCUs
HBCUs’ Relevance in Diversifying the STEM Workforce
Global scientific competitiveness of the United States depends on the nation’s ability to sustain and grow the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. An important approach to this goal is ensuring that groups historically underrepresented (HU) in STEM fields play larger roles.
March 6, 2018
Latinx
Pathways Program Seeks to Diversify the Academy
PHILADELPHIA – After graduating from college in 2002, Johanna Lopez spent a decade working in the banking industry before enrolling in community college. Now, she’s a fellow in a program created to increase the number of Latino professors working in the humanities at colleges and universities across the nation.
March 4, 2018
HBCUs
HBCUs: For Colored Kids When Predominantly White Institutions Aren’t Enough
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1837, is recognized as the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education, or HBCU. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the U.S.’s oldest institution of higher education.
March 1, 2018
HBCUs
Urban League’s Morial: Educational Equity Essential to Economic Empowerment
Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League (NUL), sees proactivity and collaboration as a way to create a movement and drive social change, particularly toward equity in education.
February 28, 2018
HBCUs
HBCU Leaders Meeting with Business Leaders at GOP Event
WASHINGTON — The leaders of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities got major face time in front of some of America’s top companies, such as Google, Starbucks and Walmart, on Tuesday at this year’s HBCU Fly-In, sponsored by congressional Republicans. The HBCU Fly-In started last year as a way for the colleges and universities […]
February 28, 2018
HBCUs
The Changing Landscape for Aspiring Black Journalists
When the nation’s news organizations were flush with money at the turn of the century, newsroom diversity was a top priority at a number of media companies. They spent millions of dollars on internships, entry-level jobs and training.
February 27, 2018
Community Colleges
Nationwide Initiative to Boost Graduation Numbers
With the goal of significantly increasing the number of graduates by the year 2025, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) has launched an unprecedented nationwide collaborative effort.
February 26, 2018
HBCUs
Concordia College Alabama to Close
SELMA, Ala. — Concordia College Alabama, a historically black Lutheran college, will close its doors at the end of the spring semester. The Selma Times-Journal reports Dr. James Lyons, the college’s chief transition officer and interim president, shared the news with faculty, staff and the student body on Wednesday. The school was founded in 1922 […]
February 25, 2018
Community Colleges
“Achieving the Dream’ ID’s Student Issues
NASHVILLE — Advancing equity, strengthening advising and improving pedagogy and curriculum were among the issues explored this week at the annual meeting of Achieving the Dream.
February 21, 2018
MSIs
New NAACP Youth Leader a Skilled Organizer
Tiffany Dena Loftin arrived this month as the NAACP’s new director of the Youth & College Division at a critical – even urgent – time when many young African-Americans are clamoring for ways to get involved in social justice movements to resist violence and oppression.
February 21, 2018
Community Colleges
Diversity Champ Nooks Tapped to Lead Georgia School
Dr. Kirk A. Nooks, president of Metropolitan Community College’s Longview campus in Lee’s Summit, Mo., has been tapped to lead Gordon State College in Barnesville, Ga.
February 18, 2018
HBCUs
Storytelling as #Resistance
In the past year, political and cultural resistance movements in the form of protests, marches and movements emerged online.
February 14, 2018
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