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IT Networks Going Wireless at Tribal Colleges

IT Networks Going Wireless at Tribal CollegesIt’s not surprising that Turtle Mountain Community College’s president, Dr. Gerald E. Monette, wants to use technology to alleviate the isolation experienced by the North Dakota-based tribal college. Located a few miles from the Canadian border, the Turtle Mountain campus sits on a Chippewa Indian reservation in an area […]

December 19, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Report: Female Presidents Juggle More, Earn Less

Report: Female Presidents Juggle More, Earn LessBy Kathleen Kennedy Manzo WASHINGTONWomen still have fewer opportunities to gain top leadership roles at the nation’s colleges and universities, their salaries lag behind those of men and they face greater personal and professional demands, according to a report that summarizes the observations and concerns of women college presidents.“From […]

December 19, 2001

Students

Rhetoric vs. Reality

Rhetoric vs. RealityColleges confront quagmire of issues associated with remediation. By Kendra HamiltonThere’s no getting around it. Remedial education — also called developmental education — suffers from an image problem. The fact is all too evident at the macro level — the California State University (CSU) System, for example, expelled 2,009 students in January for […]

December 5, 2001

Students

Cal Grant Funds Fall Short for Eligible Students

Cal Grant Funds Fall Short for Eligible StudentsSACRAMENTO, Calif.Thousands of needy and eligible community college students will not receive a Cal Grant this year, not through any fault of theirs, but because there simply aren’t enough grants to go around.The Cal Grant program recently completed a first-ever September processing cycle specifically for community college students […]

December 5, 2001

Community Colleges

Lawmakers Debate Restrictions on Student Visas

Lawmakers Debate Restrictions on Student VisasLegislation under discussion on Capitol Hill would make it harder for foreign students to enroll in U.S. colleges and universities. “The foreign student visa program is one of the most unregulated and exploited visa categories,” says Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., one of the program’s staunchest critics since the Sept. 11 […]

November 21, 2001

Community Colleges

Black College Reunion Brings Millions

Black College Reunion Brings Millions To Daytona Area, Expert SaysDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.The Black College Reunion generates $145 million in economic activity for the Daytona Beach, Fla., region, according to an economist’s studies. The three-day event, which brings as many as 100,000 spring breakers from historically Black colleges across the nation, also supports the equivalent of […]

October 24, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little Fallout

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little FalloutBut Baton Rouge Community College experiences 70 percent enrollment jump.By Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, LaLast summer, when Southern University was poised to raise its admission standards as part of a federal desegregation settlement, school officials were bracing for a loss of 700 students — or about 8 percent of […]

October 10, 2001

Latinx

South Central Los Angeles: A Community In Transition

South Central Los Angeles: A Community In TransitionLA’s Southwest College seeks to keep pace with changing demographicsBy Lydia LumLOS ANGELESos Angeles Southwest College perhaps best illustrates the rising tide of Latinos and other minorities sweeping into higher education institutions of deeply steeped Black heritage, and of the challenges and new growing pains such schools face.The […]

September 26, 2001

Leadership & Policy

FAMU Board of Trustees Elects Chairman

FAMU Board of Trustees Elects ChairmanTALLAHASSEE, Fla.Arthur “Art” Collins, prominent business lobbyist, was elected chairman by the members of the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees during their first meeting held in early August“Thank you for providing me with this humble opportunity,” said Collins. “We are all equal in the task of moving FAMU forward […]

September 26, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in California

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in CaliforniaWALNUT, Calif.California Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, pledged to amend legislation to restore some of the $126 million in community college funding cuts recently made by Gov. Gray Davis.“I think it’s time community colleges stand up for what has rightfully been earned,” says Pacheco.Pacheco announced to a crowd […]

September 12, 2001

Community Colleges

West Virginians More Likely to Pass On College Education, Survey Shows

West Virginians More Likely to Pass On College Education, Survey ShowsCHARLESTON, W.Va. West Virginians are more likely to earn high school degrees, skip college and head into lower-paying labor intensive jobs, according to the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey. Nearly 65 percent of state residents age 25 and older went no further than 12th grade, the […]

September 12, 2001

Community Colleges

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African Teachers

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African TeachersLargo, Md.As American higher education institutions scramble to develop international programs in distance education and Internet-based collaborations, Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Maryland has spearheaded a partnership with a South African college system to teach computer literacy to primary and secondary school teachers. Officials at […]

August 29, 2001

Community Colleges

UC’s New Admissions Policy Expected To Increase Minority Enrollment

UC’s New Admissions Policy Expected To Increase Minority EnrollmentSAN FRANCISCOCalifornia students who graduate in the top 12.5 percent of their high school class will be guaranteed admission to the University of California, though some may have to go to community college first. Six years after doing away with affirmative action, the university’s board of regents […]

August 15, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Jess Carreon was recently selected as the next president of Portland Community College in Portland, Ore. Previously, Carreon was the superintendent and president of the Rio Hondo Community College District in Whittier, Calif. Carreon earned a bachelor’s from San Diego State University, a master’s from the University of California at Irvine and a […]

July 18, 2001

Students

Louisiana Scholarship Isn’t TOPS with Two-Year Students

Louisiana Scholarship Isn’t TOPS with Two-Year StudentsBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.For the most part, Louisiana’s community and technical college students have missed the state scholarship boat. Virtually all of the 36,000 students who cashed in this year on the state-funded Tuition Opportunity Program for Students, or TOPS, are attending four-year universities.To qualify, a student must […]

July 18, 2001

Community Colleges

Events

EventsJULYJuly 25-30Noel-Levitz 15th National Conference on Student RetentionNew OrleansContact: Linda RobertsonPhone: (800) 876-1117Fax: (319) 337-4700E-mail: linda-robertson@noellevitz.com Web: www.noellevitz.comJuly 27-29The Leadership Alliance’s 6th Annual National SymposiumEvergreen Conference CenterStone Mountain, Ga.Contact: Lydia GarnerPhone: (212) 854-2968E-mail: log2@columbia.edu July 28-31National Association of College and University Business OfficersHilton TowersNew YorkContact: Maureen McCarthyPhone: (202) 861-2523Fax: (202) 296-1592E-mail: mmccartju@nacubo.org Web: www.nacubo.org AUGUSTAugust […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsCarol Moseley Braun will join the Morris Brown College faculty as a visiting distinguished professor and scholar in residence. She recently served as ambassador to New Zealand and as a Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois from 1992-1998. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a juris doctorate from the […]

July 4, 2001

Community Colleges

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher Education

Bring Back the Pell Grant for Inmate Higher EducationCommunity colleges have a tremendous opportunity to serve thousands of new students. A tragic mistake of the early 1990s ended hundreds of excellent associate’s degree programs for incarcerated students throughout the United States. Now is the time to correct that error and begin again to serve a […]

July 4, 2001