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Students
Program to Help Pay for Community College for Detroit Grads
By Associated Press DETROIT — Detroit will start using state education tax dollars to fund a program that will pay for two years of community college for the city’s high school graduates. Detroit Promise scholarships will be available to students starting in 2018. The program follows promise zone legislation passed years ago by state lawmakers […]
March 22, 2016
HBCUs
Nate Parker Launching Film School at HBCU, Wiley College
“The Birth of a Nation” filmmaker Nate Parker is launching a film school at Wiley College in Texas, with plans for classes to open in the fall. Parker told reporters over the weekend that the school in East Texas will offer a comprehensive approach to being a filmmaker. Thrilled to announce the Birth of the @NateParker […]
March 22, 2016
African-American
PAULA JOHNSON
PAULA JOHNSON has been named president of Wellesley College, effective July 1. She was chief of women’s health at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Johnson earned a bachelor’s, an M.D. and a master’s from Harvard University.
March 22, 2016
Faculty & Staff
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT
GREGORY E. TRIPLETT has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Honors College at the University of Missouri. Triplett earned a bachelor’s from Florida A&M University, a master’s from Florida State University and a doctorate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
March 22, 2016
Community Colleges
MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS
MARJORIE L. DORIMÉ-WILLIAMS has been named director of assessment in the Office of Academic Affairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She was director of academic assessment at Baruch College (CUNY). Dorimé-Williams earned a bachelor’s from Saint Joseph’s University, a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
March 22, 2016
Faculty & Staff
JULIA JASKEN
JULIA JASKEN has been named provost and dean of the faculty at McDaniel College. She was acting provost and dean of the faculty and an associate professor of English at McDaniel. Jasken earned a bachelor’s from the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota, a master’s from Northern Illinois University and a doctorate from Michigan Technological University.
March 22, 2016
Students
TANAYA M. WALTERS
TANAYA M. WALTERS has been appointed vice president for student affairs at Clark Atlanta University. She was dean of students at Johnson and Wales University in North Carolina. Walters earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Johnson and Wales.
March 22, 2016
African-American
NADINE SHIGEZAWA
NADINE SHIGEZAWA was appointed director of the Veterans in Transition to Academic Leadership (VITAL) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was a psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Shigezawa holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
March 22, 2016
Community Colleges
Funding Still a Major Concern for Future Community College Leaders
League of Innovation leaders debate issues that will affect the new generation of community college leaders during a recent forum in Chicago.
March 21, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Baccalaureate Degrees in Growing Demand at Community Colleges
The Innovations conference’s opening general session in Chicago on Sunday focused on the growing trend to offer baccalaureate degrees at select community colleges across the country.
March 21, 2016
Community Colleges
Kentucky House Approves Free Community College
All students who graduate from Kentucky high schools, home schools or obtain their GEDs in Kentucky will be able to attend community colleges for free under a bill that passed the Kentucky House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill now moves to the state Senate. House Bill 626 requires students to apply for available student aid and […]
March 20, 2016
African-American
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Controversy Often Accompanies Executive Search Firms Study: Many Colleges’ Financial Outreach Coming at Pell Grant Recipients’ Expense University of Missouri Unrest Reverberates at ACE Trump, Enabler of American Political Hooliganism?
March 18, 2016
Women
Career Undermatching: The Higher Ed Issue You Need to Know About
Career undermatching describes the phenomenon in which talented, college graduates from low-income families wind up in jobs that don’t match their abilities or ambitions.
March 16, 2016
Community Colleges
Kansas House OKs Campus Faith Groups Restricting Membership
TOPEKA, Kan. ― Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday approved a long-delayed proposal allowing faith-based groups on college campuses to restrict their membership to like-minded people. Nearly a year after the Senate approved the bill, the Republican-controlled House voted 81-41 to send the bill to Gov. Sam Brownback, a strong supporter of religious rights. Supporters have said […]
March 16, 2016
Students
Poll: About Half U.S. Students Identify as ‘Hopeful’ and ‘Engaged’
Only about half of U.S. students are “hopeful” and “engaged” in school, while the rest are either not engaged or actively disengaged and stuck or discouraged, according to an annual Gallup Student Poll.
March 15, 2016
Students
Kansas May Allow Campus Religious Groups to Restrict Members
TOPEKA, Kan. ― Kansas is close to enacting a measure that would allow university religious groups to restrict membership based on beliefs and retain public funding. The bill got first-round approval in the Kansas House 80-39 Tuesday after it was passed by the Senate last year. If the bill wins final approval in the House […]
March 15, 2016
Students
University of Missouri Unrest Reverberates at ACE
Handling unrest among underrepresented students was a hot topic of discussion at the 98th American Council on Education Annual Meeting which concludes today.
March 15, 2016
Students
Delaware State Cutting 23 Degree-granting Programs
Delaware State University, the sole historically Black public college in Delaware, is “deactivating” 23 degree granting programs it identified as low enrollment.
March 14, 2016
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