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Community Colleges
DERAILED : ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND RESTRICTIVE STATE LEGISLATION STALL UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS
As a founder of the University Leadership Initiative, an advocacy group for undocumented students in Texas, Julieta Garibay sorts through the numerous e-mails her organization receives daily.
October 14, 2009
Students
REINVENTING REMEDIAL EDUCATION
When Kafayat Olayinka graduated from Spingarn High School in Washington, D. C., with a 3.5 grade point average, she was certain those kinds of grades would help her zip right through her college years.
October 14, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Convention Panel Encourages Gay Chancellors, Presidents to Remain Open About Their Sexual Orientation
Since age 26, Dr. David Wain Coon has been open personally and professionally about his sexual orientation. “I wanted my students to have the role model I didn’t have when I went through my education.”
October 8, 2009
Rosa Perez
Leadership & Policy
Asian-Americans Hope To Build Pipelines to College Presidencies
Dr. Ding-Jo Currie has long been aware that she is one of only a handful of Asian American college presidents in the U.S. today. What she did not know until recently, however, is how few mid- and senior-level Asian administrators are groomed into becoming presidents.
October 4, 2009
Leslie Wong
HBCUs
Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges
An avalanche of funding is expected after a slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.
October 1, 2009
The Miner Normal School building at Howard University
Faculty & Staff
LASTWORD: R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Adjunct faculty are invaluable to community colleges, so why aren’t they taken into consideration in the colleges’ missions?
September 30, 2009
Community Colleges
HARVESTING ‘GREEN-COLLAR’ JOBS
Scholars and academic institutions help local communities grow new employment sector.
September 30, 2009
Faculty & Staff
CONVERGING INTERESTS
Environmental and sustainability issues have permeated every level of academia, from art instruction to business courses.
September 30, 2009
HBCUs
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Stimulus Money Slow To Reach Colleges
An avalanche of funding is expected after slow start to stimulus spending for campus-preservation projects.
September 30, 2009
Community Colleges
Louisiana Needs More Two-year College Grads, State Labor Official Says
The Louisiana Workforce Commission executive director told state officials that, while Louisiana has a surplus of residents with four-year college degrees, the state needs to dramatically increase two-year graduates in vocational training and community college programs.
September 29, 2009
Louisiana State Capitol
African-American
Hampden-Sydney’s Superstar President Makes Splash
Christopher Howard has taken the helm of Hampden-Sydney College as the first African-American to lead the all-male Virginia liberal arts college.
September 27, 2009
Christopher Howard Assumes Hampden-Sydney Presidency
Community Colleges
NC Community Colleges to Enroll Undocumented Students
RALEIGH, N.C.  _ North Carolina’s community college system voted Friday to admit undocumented immigrants at its campuses next year, a move unlikely to bring an immediate surge in undocumented students given a requirement that they pay higher tuition.
September 21, 2009
Students
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM: Developmental Education – An Investment We Cannot Afford NOT To Make
Despite the escalating numbers of students who need developmental work, many critics of developmental education blame the K-12 school system for not preparing students for college-level work.
September 16, 2009
Community Colleges
DISAPPEARING ACT
Latino males are more likely to drop out of high school and are more likely not to fi nish college.
September 16, 2009
Students
NOTEWORTHYNEWS: WHEN PERCEPTION BECOMES REALITY
Survey reveals what Mexican-American students expect to achieve does not coincide with their goals.
September 16, 2009
Latinx
WASHINGTON UPDATE: Community Colleges To Benefit from New Higher Ed Bill
Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.
September 16, 2009
Latinx
Community Colleges To Benefi t from New Higher Ed Bill
Ambitious higher education legislation is loaded with student aid, community college improvements.
September 16, 2009
Latinx
Disappearing Act
Failure to educate a fast-growing segment of the U.S. work force — Latino males — may put the country at a global economic disadvantage, experts say.
September 16, 2009
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