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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Champions Award
John Roueche Awarded Inaugural Diverse Champions Award
On the eve of his retirement from the Community College Leadership Program, Dr. John E. Roueche said farewell Tuesday to his community college colleagues at the 34th annual National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development conference.
May 29, 2012
Community Colleges
NISOD Session Highlights Latino Student Success Imperative
Improving student completion rates at community colleges goes hand- in-hand with improving educational outcomes for Latinos, Excelencia in Education President Sarita Brown said Monday at the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) in Austin, Texas.
May 28, 2012
Community Colleges
Editor’s Note: An Ode to John Roueche
What’s most striking about John Roueche’s legacy are the epic battles he fought, and won, to recruit women and minorities to Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas-Austin, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine editor David Pluviose writes.
May 24, 2012
Community Colleges
An Appreciation: John and Suanne Roueche
In the fourth of a four-part series, Dr. Terry O’Banion, president emeritus of the League for Innovation, pays tribute to community college leaders John and Suanne Roueche.
May 24, 2012
Community Colleges
John and Suanne Roueche – Community College Dream Team
In the third of a four-part series, Diverse explores how Drs. John and Suanne Roueche have played a key role in shaping the modern-day community college movement through their dynamic personal and professional partnership.
May 23, 2012
Community Colleges
Reflecting on Lessons for Community College Leaders
In the second of a four-part series on the career of Dr. John Roueche, community college leaders reflect on ideas that have been attributed to Roueche, the director of the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas-Austin over the past 42 years.
May 22, 2012
Community Colleges
John Roueche – Community College Renaissance Man
In a four-part series, Diverse explores the career of Dr. John Roueche, the retiring director of the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
May 21, 2012
Community Colleges
New Internet Tool Helps Measure Community College Student Success
The Completion Arch features the ability to break information down by state or race and ethnicity or gender, but it does not include institution-specific data, such as the percentage of students landing jobs in their field of study.
April 30, 2012
Community Colleges
Retiring CCLP Director John Roueche Celebrated at AACC Conference
A number of events over the past few days at the AACC annual convention were devoted to hailing John Roueche’s contributions to the community college movement.
April 23, 2012
Community Colleges
AACC Report Calls for Fundamental Shifts in Community Colleges’ Focus
A major report is released as 2,400 community college chancellors, presidents, deans and faculty members meet in Orlando for the 92nd annual American Association of Community Colleges convention.
April 22, 2012
Community Colleges
Questions Persist in Fatal Shooting of Black Community College Student
The fatal shooting of Citrus College student Kendrec McDade by police officers has provoked outrage in Pasadena, Calif., as yet another example of a young Black man losing his life under questionable circumstances.
April 12, 2012
Community Colleges
Students Angry over Pricey Courses Pepper-sprayed
The dozens of student protesters who were pepper-sprayed by police at a California community college this week weren’t just angry about not getting into a meeting of school trustees.
April 5, 2012
Community Colleges
Commentary: Community College Campuses Provide an Accurate Reflection of Diversity
Higher education must stop viewing community colleges as drive-by institutions and recognize the significant contribution they are making to American higher education, writes New York-based college administrator Mary Hinton.
March 22, 2012
Community Colleges
Job Training Initiative, Campaigning on President Obama’s Agenda in Prince George’s County
In addition to highlighting a community college job training partnership in Prince George’s County, President Obama focused on the economic pain that Americans are feeling.
March 15, 2012
Community Colleges
Florida’s Higher Education Diversity Imperative
In a state with a booming Hispanic and steadily growing African-American population, the issues of access and diversity in higher education are almost always front and center.
March 12, 2012
Community Colleges
Study: Pell Grant Use Surges at Kansas JUCOs
A study of Kansas community colleges shows the number of students receiving federal financial aid jumped dramatically as the nation struggled to recover from the recession.
March 11, 2012
Latinx
Obama Plan to Raise Dropout Age Draws Mixed Reviews
Raising the high school dropout age may bring more focus to postsecondary education, but analysts express divergent opinions on how such a requirement would impact the dropout dilemma.
March 11, 2012
African-American
Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis
In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH
March 3, 2012
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