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Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College

Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Faculty focus on technology

If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized

Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities

SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College

Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College

July 13, 2007

Charting journalism degrees

The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

White administrators charge college with racism – Houston Community College

Houston White administrators at Houston Community College (HCC) have accused the institution of racial discrimination in a lawsuit filed in federal court.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Community College Presidency at the Millennium. – book reviews

If anyone doubts Dr. George B. Vaughan is the nation’s leading expert on the community college presidency, the publication of this new book should lay that to rest.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

To educate a nation; Native American tribe hopes to bring higher education to an Arizona reservation – Tohono O’Odham Nation, Papago Indian Reservation, Sells, Arizona

When the Tohono O’Odham Nation’s surveyed its members last year about barriers that they faced to obtaining a college degree, recurring themes kept cropping up. The nearest college to the Sells, Arizona community was more than an hour’s drive away. Moving to a city with a college was not an option for others. And many found the high cost of big-city rent prohibitive.

July 12, 2007

Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment

JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.

July 12, 2007

Community Colleges

Proprietary preference – for-profit colleges

One of the surprises emerging from Black Issues’s analysis of the top one hundred institutions conferring degrees on people of color was in the rise of proprietary colleges as major players — particularly in the fields of engineering-related technologies, computer science, and business.

July 12, 2007

Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York

The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.

July 12, 2007

New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Powerful sisters – college presidents – Cover Story

Within only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents

Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

African American college presidents in decline

Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing

July 12, 2007

Community Colleges

Embracing the Tiger: The Effectiveness Debate and the Community College. – book reviews

The two most important words in community college faculty and administrative lexicons these days are institutional effectiveness.

July 12, 2007

African-American

College Deciding Discipline For Hanging Black Mannequin

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio Antioch College officials are trying to decide whether to discipline four students who tied a noose around the neck of a Black mannequin and hung it from a tree.

July 12, 2007