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Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Marshall B. Bass has been elected chairman of South Carolina’s Voorhees College Board of Trustees. Bass is the founder of Marshall B. Bass and Associates Inc., a management consulting firm. Bass earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and doctorates of law from North Carolina Central University and civil laws from […]

May 24, 2000

Community Colleges

Conference Examines Digital Divide

Conference Examines Digital DivideAs an administrator and computer science instructor at West Los Angeles College, Zenobia Millet had a busy agenda last month at the Community College Foundation’s Tech Ed 2000 educational technology conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Looking to forge partnerships with computer software and hardware companies, Millet spent much of her time meeting […]

April 26, 2000

Community Colleges

Provost Says Opposing View Led to His Ouster

Provost Says Opposing View Led to His OusterINSTITUTE, W.Va. – The president of West Virginia State College stripped the provost for the school’s community college program of his duties late last month.Dr. George Bilicic says it is because he backed a bill to create a new statewide community college system. Bilicic says his support for […]

April 12, 2000

Community Colleges

West Virginia State Denounces Community College Plan

West Virginia State Denounces Community College PlanCHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers passed a controversial higher education reform bill last month despite protests from administrators, faculty and students at a historically Black college who contended the measure could doom their school.The new law stirred dissent because it would have created a statewide community college system […]

April 12, 2000

Researchers Investigate Persistence Among Minority Two-Year Transferees

Researchers Investigate Persistence Among Minority Two-Year TransfereesRALEIGH, N.C. — You can lead a community college student to a university, but can you make him graduate? That’s a question Dr. Wynetta Y. Lee, a specialist in adult and community college education at North Carolina State University, hopes to answer this summer when she completes a study […]

March 29, 2000

Community Colleges

For Bush, ‘Bob Jones’ May Spell T-r-o-u-b-l-e

For Bush, ‘Bob Jones’ May Spell T-r-o-u-b-l-eGREENVILLE, S.C. — In politics, labels can be a blessing or a curse. They can create a mental image that 1,000 words cannot. For Dan Quayle, “potatoe” spelled trouble. And for George W. Bush, “Bob Jones University” is quickly becoming a phrase that could saddle him with some serious […]

March 15, 2000

Community Colleges

Campaign 2000

WASHINGTON — The presidential race is heating up, but so far most candidates are not spending much time on higher education issues.Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain have been locked in heated primary debates, yet education issues are not often on the front burner. The problem is […]

March 15, 2000

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Clinton Joins Waters To Address ‘Digital Divide’WASHINGTON — African Americans and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to get connected to the Internet, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., with help from President Clinton, is doing something about it.With Waters’ help, the White House is requesting $100 million in fiscal 2001 for community technology centers that […]

March 1, 2000

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Henry D. Shannon has been named chancellor of St Louis Community College’s Forest Park campus. He was previously acting chancellor and president. Shannon’s experience includes administrative positions at Saint Louis University and Harris-Stowe College. He earned his bachelor’s in elementary education from Harris-Stowe College, and a master’s and doctorate in counseling education, both […]

March 1, 2000

BI News Briefs

Super Quarterbacks Produced by HBCUsATLANTA — Although Steve McNair came up just short in his attempt to lead the Tennessee Titans to the National Football League Championship last month, the second African American to quarterback a team in the Super Bowl will go down in the records books nonetheless.McNair guided a heart-stopping comeback by […]

February 16, 2000

Washington Briefs

White House Plans New Education Tax BreakWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration again is touting new tax benefits for higher education, though its ideas may not fare as well as they did back in 1997.That year, Congress approved two new tax credit programs — the HOPE Scholarship and the lifelong learning credit. HOPE provides up to […]

February 16, 2000

Evaluating the Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Community Colleges

Human operator assistance makes a comeback on many campuses

Human operator assistance makes a comeback on many campusesMOBILE, Ala. — You hear it when you call the electric company. Or the airline reservation desk. Or the bank. “For the business office, press one. For billing, press two. For customer service, press three. To speak to an operator, press zero.”Automated phone answering systems are as […]

January 19, 2000

Community Colleges

Miss. Colleges File Suit to Block University’s Expansion

Miss. Colleges File Suit to Block University’s ExpansionHBCUs and community colleges may be hurt by University of Southern Mississippi expansionJACKSON, Miss. — The state Board for Community and Junior Colleges, making good on an earlier threat, filed suit late last month to block a state university from expanding a branch campus along this state’s booming […]

January 19, 2000

Community Colleges

BI News Briefs

Judge Allows Students to Help Defend Georgia’s Admissions PolicyATHENS, Ga. — Several students concerned about the state’s efforts to defend the University of Georgia against a high-profile lawsuit alleging discrimination in the school’s admissions policy have added themselves as defendants in the case.Ken Dious, an attorney here who represents the students, some of whom are […]

January 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Collegespeak

Collegespeak What’s The Real Meaning Behind All That Higher Education Jargon?WASHINGTON — Happen to know what “scaffolded reading and learning episodes” are? Able to define “task-centered talking,” “bibliobaskets,” “academic villages?” How about “manifestation determinations?” Huh?The world of higher education is chock full of catch phrases, both catchy and kitschy. Many education experts say the lingo […]

January 19, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Tumultuous Tenure

Tumultuous TenureCHICAGO — Dr. Charles Green’s resume was im-pressive. He had served as president of the Hous-ton Community Colleges system for five years, before that, president of one of the prestigious Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix for nine years and, prior to that, as a dean at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. But suddenly […]

January 19, 2000

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Tax Break for Colleges WASHINGTON – The nation’s colleges and universities do not have to pay taxes on income generated from specialized credit cards that bear their names, logos or mascots, a federal appeals court has ruled.The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stems from […]

November 10, 1999

Bringing It Back to the Basics

Bringing It Back to the BasicsIn a High-Tech World Where Many Colleges Are Scrambling to Acquire the Most Advanced Curriculums, Others Are Being Progressive by Teaching the Fundamentals By Eleanor Lee YatesBALTIMORE — Michael Miller always struggled with school. “I was considered to be slow,” recalls the 26-year-old. After repeating the 10th grade twice — […]

October 13, 1999