Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Search

Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Native Americans
Chippewa Tribe Seeks to Curb Drug Epidemic By Testing at North Dakota Community College
Officials of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa are taking steps to address what they say is an epidemic drug problem on the northern North Dakota reservation…
April 23, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Community College Instructor Apologizes for Racially Insensitive Question Regarding Condoleezza Rice
A community college math instructor has apologized for a test question apparently involving U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that students complained was racially insensitive…
April 20, 2006
HBCUs
The Evolution of Educational Opportunities
Higher education has evolved to the extent that it touches the lives of most American adults, who at some point, will acquire skills and knowledge in a post-secondary institution…
April 19, 2006
hilary_020
Leadership & Policy
Douglass College Saved — Sort of
When Rutgers University President Richard McCormick proposed a radical reorganization last year to consolidate the undergraduate colleges…
April 19, 2006
ambar
HBCUs
African-American Males Conference Inspires
The statistics presented at the African-American Males in Education conference held late last month were downright painful at times. But for the 650 educators…
April 19, 2006
run2
HBCUs
Professioanl Appointments
Dr. Juliette B. Bell has been appointed vice provost and chancellor for academic affairs at Fayetteville State University (N.C.). She had served as dean of FSU’s College of Basic and Applied Sciences, was a professor of chemistry and was director of the Biomedical Research Program. Bell earned a bachelor’s from Talladega College and a doctorate […]
April 19, 2006
Disabilties
Grants & Awards
Bronx Community College’s (N.Y.) National Center for Educational Alliances has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand upon its educational initiative in South Africa, which was begun under a previous Ford Foundation grant. New Linkages: Phase II will expand the projects’ scope from KwaZulu-Natal Province into the neighboring Eastern Cape Province. The […]
April 5, 2006
Latinx
Educational System Fails Chicano Students at Every Level, Says Report
Educators, policy makers, community leaders and other stakeholders must do more to combat the dismal high school and college graduation rates of Chicano students…
March 23, 2006
Latinx
Education Gaps Among U.S. Hispanics
A report released earlier this month by the National Academies’ National Research Council finds that education and training are key to giving America’s Hispanic workers and their children…
March 22, 2006
marta
Community Colleges
Three Alabama College Students Arrested in U.S. Church Arsons
Three university students, including two aspiring actors known around their college campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama…
March 9, 2006
Community Colleges
Seven Colleges Receive Grants to Aid Transfer of High-Achieving Community College Students
Cornell University and seven other colleges and universities have received grants totaling $6.78 million from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to launch programs designed to help high-achieving…
March 9, 2006
Sports
Former Kansas Community College Coach
A former community college basketball coach is the latest to be sentenced in a wide-ranging criminal investigation that has already snared eight coaches and led to the…
March 8, 2006
Community Colleges
Congress Approves Resolutions Favoring More Minorities in NASCAR
A partnership between NASCAR and historically Black universities, intended to expand the number of minorities involved with auto racing, has gotten final approval from the U.S. Congress…
March 5, 2006
foto2_009
Community Colleges
States Make Progress Closing High School “Expectations Gap” But More Needs To Be Done, Report Finds
Just one year after 45 of the nation’s governors joined leaders from education and business to make high school reform a national priority…
February 22, 2006
Community Colleges
Ohio Gov. Says Four-Year Colleges
Gov. Bob Taft says Ohio must change the way it helps school children prepare for college and work…
February 22, 2006
pic2_003
Students
Institutional Revival
Nobody would have seen this coming back in 2003, when the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) placed Cankdeska Cikana Community College on probation…
February 22, 2006
merisotis
African-American
Celebrating Black History Month
Here’s a look at how some colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Black History Month…
February 22, 2006
each5
Community Colleges
Movement Afoot to Build Dorms at Some Community Colleges
Community colleges are looking at building dormitories in a move that could change the profile of institutions designed a half-century ago as commuter schools…
February 20, 2006
Previous Page
Next Page