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Community Colleges
Missouri House Denies Undocumented Students Access too Public Colleges
For the third year in a row, Missouri House members voted Wednesday to bar undocumented immigrants from public colleges and universities.
March 12, 2008
Community Colleges
New Hampshire Pilot Articulation Initiative Rolled Out Statewide
A pilot program that makes it easier and cheaper for community college students to transfer to the University of New Hampshire is being expanded statewide.
March 12, 2008
Students
A Conversation with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
Spelman President Beverly Daniel Tatum recently spoke with Diverse about Spelman’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement, the relevance of HBCUs and more.
March 10, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Alabama Officials Ban Community College Employee “Double Dipping”
After months of wrangling and discussion, the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education has implemented a ban on so-called “double dipping,” making it against the rules for employees to hold elected office.
March 5, 2008
Community Colleges
Maine Community College System May Face $1.95 Million Funding Cut
Gov. John Baldacci, spelling out how he would make up for the second $95 million reduction in state revenue estimates in three months, unveiled a budget change package Wednesday that relies largely on new proposals to cut back planned expenditures, including on state aid to local schools.
March 5, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Status of Black Women and HBCUs Focus of Urban League Report
The National Urban League’s annual report on the state of Black America this year examines the community through the eyes and the lives of Black women.
March 5, 2008
Community Colleges
Study: High Schools Overlook Community College-Bound Students
A recent report by the Southern Regional Education Board says many high schools are focusing their academic and guidance programs on the minority of students planning to attend four-year colleges, while failing to serve the majority of students preparing to go to community colleges, technical schools or the workplace.
March 5, 2008
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Leadership & Policy
Fear of the Known — and Unknown
Just three days before the campus shootings at Northern Illinois University last month, I sat in the morning plenary session at the annual American Council on Education meeting titled “Campus Security, Response and Recovery.” Judging by the number of people that attended the session and the Q&A that followed, campus security post Virginia Tech—and now […]
March 4, 2008
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Sports
The Untold Stories of Black Athletes To Air on ESPN
A film about the injustices that defined the civil rights movement told through the eyes of basketball players and coaches from primarily historically Black colleges and universities will air on ESPN on March 16 and 17.
March 4, 2008
Latinx
Congress To Give More, Demand More
A Pell Grant increase is in the HEA bill, but so are provisions for colleges to explain large endowments and tuition increases.
March 4, 2008
Students
Technology: Connecting Students to Their Community Colleges
Community colleges have an extremely difficult job trying to connect with students, given that so many drive to campus only to attend class and then return home or to work after the class concludes.
March 4, 2008
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Faculty & Staff
Making Strides
HBCUs seek progress on information technology resources.
March 4, 2008
Community Colleges
College Graduates With Career-oriented Majors Out Pace Those With Academic Majors
A college degree pays, and not just in knowledge and experience, but in dividends too.
March 4, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received a $50,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation for student scholarship through the AICF’s Tribal College Program. The monies will benefit tribal college students studying math, science, technology and business. The CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received an eight-year, $24 MILLION grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to […]
March 3, 2008
Asian American Pacific Islander
Diverse Calendar
March 13-15 Eleventh Annual Regional HBCU Summit on Retention “Improving Retention at HBCUs: Retention is a Shared Enterprise” Clarion Resort Hotel Ocean City,Md. Contact: Dr. Anne L. Gaskins-Nedd Phone: (301) 860-3687 e-mail: anedd@bowiestate.edu March 14-15 Faculty Resource Network at New York University “The Molecules of Life: A National Dissemination Conference” Grand Hyatt Atlanta Phone: (212) […]
March 3, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Antioch Alumni Determined to Keep College Open
Alumni of Antioch College in Ohio want to keep the school open, even if it means holding classes off campus.
March 3, 2008
Students
Babson College Meets Changing Needs With Diversity Officer
Dr. Elizabeth Thornton, Babson College’s newly appointed chief diversity officer, wasn’t hired to mitigate a highly charged climate of racial violence or vandalism or to appease student and faculty complaints on multiculturalism.
March 2, 2008
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HBCUs
UNCF Partners with Public Policy Organization to Recruit HBCU Students for Fellowship Program
The United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation is helping the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program recruit more students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
February 28, 2008
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