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2018 Higher Education Highlights
Like the year before, 2018 has proven to be an important year for issues relating to diversity, equity and higher education. Most notably, this past year we witnessed up close a number of racial incidents on campus involving law enforcement being called on students and staff of color.
December 20, 2018
Community Colleges
Reverse-Transfer Policies May Particularly Help Underrepresented Groups
While facing logistical challenges, reverse credit transfer is becoming a more common practice nationwide as a way of getting an associate’s degree or certificate for students who had gone on to take courses in a baccalaureate program that could be applied to retroactively award them a community college credential.
December 19, 2018
Students
Report Highlights MSIs as ‘Underutilized Resource’ for Strengthening STEM Workforce
Providing early research experiences and creating supportive campus environments are among the promising and intentional strategies outlined in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine focused on the impact and role of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in producing graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
December 19, 2018
HBCUs
Second Chance Pell Students Earn College Degree
From the medium-security prison where he’s been incarcerated since 2009, Robert M. Williams has continued to nurture a boyhood dream of designing and selling the sartorial finery he’d admired in glossy magazines and on the bodies of folks with a certain income.
December 18, 2018
Latinx
Report: Minorities Underrepresented in Earning Engineering Degrees
According to a report from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), African-American and Hispanic students earning engineering degrees remain underrepresented despite an increase seen in recent years and demand for workers in the industry.
December 18, 2018
HBCUs
Report: Women and Minorities Continue to be Underrepresented in Computer Science
Though the field of computer science has seen strides in the increased number of people earning degrees and in job openings across the country in recent years, the field is still lacking diverse representation of women and minorities.
December 17, 2018
Students
TRIUMPH Program Empowers Minority Males at Community Colleges
The TRIUMPH program – launched in 2014 – was created to increase the retention and success of men of color at Triton College.
December 15, 2018
HBCUs
Spelman Receives $30M, Largest Gift from Living Donors
Long-time Spelman College trustee Ronda Stryker and spouse William Johnston donated $30 million to the historically Black college (HBCU), making the gift the largest in Spelman’s 137-year history from living donors.
December 13, 2018
LGBTQ+
Faculty Bring Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies to LaGuardia Community College
With shifting notions of gender and sexuality, ongoing discussions about reproductive rights and the emergence of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, a cohort of faculty members at LaGuardia Community College (LAGCC) within the City University of New York system saw a need for a program that could provide students with an understanding of the systems and theories that shape the world around them.
December 13, 2018
Leadership & Policy
Herman J. Felton Jr. Earns Ph.D. from Jackson State University
Dr. Herman James Felton Jr., who grew up in poverty and with dyslexia, beat all odds and earned a Ph.D. from Jackson State University and has become one of the youngest presidents of a historically Black college and university (HBCU). His story from poverty to college president was chronicled in the Clarion Ledger. Felton was the […]
December 10, 2018
HBCUs
Remembering President George H. W. Bush
It was a privilege and honor for me to have a friendly and professional relationship with President George H.W. Bush. I found him to be an extraordinary man of love, values, principles, standards, honesty, compassion, loyalty, camaraderie and character.
December 7, 2018
African-American
CGS Meeting Hears Sobering Report on Black Student Access
Institutional racism, White supremacy and anti-Black attitudes fuel underrepresentation of Black students on college and university campuses across the United States, with access a battle constantly being waged in legal courts and the court of public opinion, according to an academic who addressed the 58th annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools this week.
December 6, 2018
HBCUs
Marybeth Gasman to Join Rutgers Faculty
Dr. Marybeth Gasman, who has established herself as one of the nation’s most prominent scholars of historically Black colleges in particular and minority-serving institutions in general, is leaving the University and Pennsylvania to join the faculty at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, in the Fall.
December 6, 2018
Leadership & Policy
CoopLew Institute Preps CDOs to Become CEOs
As colleges and universities seek to increase diversify in top executive positions, chief diversity officers should not be overlooked as a potentially fertile source of presidents, according to CoopLew, which is presenting a professional development event this week to coach CDOs who aspire to become CEOs.
December 5, 2018
HBCUs
MBDA Awards Almost $2M to Four HBCUs
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) has awarded almost $2 million to four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in an effort to increase their ability to qualify for and received federal research and development funding; create partnerships with technology resources; increase STEM entrepreneurship and compete for federal contracts. The institutions […]
December 5, 2018
HBCUs
Winston-Salem Pushes for Access to Healthcare
Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) has achieved many accomplishments within its School of Health Sciences in preparing Black students to be successful in health-related Âfields. One in particular is that the historically Black college and university (HBCU) is the only one in the country that has a year-round mobile health unit.
December 4, 2018
Students
Report: Aligning K-12 and Community Colleges for Student Success
Accelerate academic transitions, extend navigational supports and serve as career bridges are three principal recommendations of a new resource guide focused on aligning the K-12 system and community colleges for student success.
November 29, 2018
Students
Bowie State Launches Scholarship in Honor of Slain Student
Bowie State University officials have created a new scholarship in honor of slain student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, in an effort to increase enrollment in Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs at Maryland historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Collins was fatally stabbed on the University of Maryland, College Park campus in May 2017 just […]
November 29, 2018
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