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Community Colleges Take Another Look At Sex Offender Policies

SEATTLE Sex offenders who want to go to college in Washington have been required to share their criminal past with campus officials since 1998, but recent high profile news stories and increasing enrollments have some colleges reassessing their notification policy.

July 25, 2006

New GED Chief Faces Sagging Testing Rates Despite High Minority Dropout Numbers

Widely recognized as the equivalent to a high school diploma, the General Educational Development test…

July 25, 2006

Community Colleges

Class, Race Factor in Counselors’ College Recommendations

High-school guidance counselors advise middle-class Black students without a strong academic record to apply to community colleges more than middle-class White students with the same academic record, concludes a new study.

July 25, 2006

Community College Transfers Shut Out of Elite Colleges

The doors of the nation’s most selective four-year colleges and universities have begun closing in the faces of aspiring low-income transfer students from community colleges over the last two decades, a new study suggests.

June 28, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Clark College Faculty: ‘No Confidence’ in First Black Leader

By an overwhelming margin, the Clark College faculty union has passed a no-confidence measure against the two-year school’s president

June 28, 2006

Grants & Awards

Norfolk State University (Va.) received a $1 million gift from Ernest M. Hodge, founder and co-CEO of March/Hodge Automotive Group and a 1975 alumnus of the university. The gift will establish the Ernest M. Hodge Center for Entrepreneurship in the School of Business. The University of Arizona has received a $1.4 million grant from the […]

June 28, 2006

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges Beckon Members

Flexing sovereignty and economic clout spurred in some cases by Indian gambling, tribal colleges are growing around the country. Nationally, there were no tribal colleges before 1968. Today, there are more than three dozen in the U.S. and one in Canada. Oklahoma, which didn’t have a tribal college until 2002, now has four seeking accreditation and financing.

June 18, 2006

Community Colleges

Hope and History in the Hills of Ohio

When senior writer Ronald Roach traveled to Ohio to visit the 150-year-old historically Black Wilberforce University…

June 14, 2006

Leadership & Policy

All Jokes Aside

As part of a nationwide tour, entertainer and activist Dr. Bill Cosby hosted two forums at the University…

June 14, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Interim Chancellor Brings Healing Touch to

Chancellor of the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District for just three years…

June 14, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors

Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.

June 12, 2006

Community Colleges

Knoxville Firm to Convert Black College Into Condos

A real estate company has bought the Morristown College campus at auction and plans to convert the site into condominiums and retail space.

June 11, 2006

Leadership & Policy

New Chancellor Seeks to Heal Tensions at Embattled Dallas College

When Dr. Jesus “Jess” Carreon, the first Hispanic to head the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District, abruptly resigned last month, the board of trustees quickly turned to Dr. Wright Lassiter, who had been president of the district’s El Centro College since 1986. Wright, who became the district’s first Black chancellor, spoke with Diverse about the healing touch he plans to bring to the embattled community college system.

June 6, 2006

Community Colleges

From Combat to Classrooms: Are Professors Prepared to Teach War Veterans?

Apathy towards coursework. Declining grades. Angry outbursts in class. One in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. But as many return home and stream onto college campuses, they enter a system ill-prepared to deal with them.

May 31, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Bill Cosby “Calls Out” Community Colleges at D.C. Event

As part of a nationwide tour, entertainer and activist Dr. Bill Cosby recently hosted two forums at the University of the District of Columbia in an effort to spur community action to break the cycle of violence, poverty and hopelessness plaguing many urban minorities.

May 29, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Study: Most Community Colleges

A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population…

May 17, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Louisiana Higher Education Officials to Reorganize

Louisiana’s higher education officials are making moves to address efficiency and access as they continue to rebuild in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita…

May 3, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Study: Most Community Colleges Not Fully Prepared for Demographic Shift

A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population, according to survey results released at the 86th American Association of Community Colleges convention last week.

May 2, 2006