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Community Colleges

Cultivate academic persistence – now!

Helping students to remain n school and to reach their educational goals is one of the many challenges facing community colleges. While it is important to help all students, the needs of the neglected minority population require special attention.

July 11, 2007

“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

Back from the brink – averted crisis for Central State University, Ohio

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The word from Moses – educator Yolanda T. Moses – Interview – Cover Story

“WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT AN INSTITUTION BECOMES THEIR REALITY UNLESS THAT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD.”

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Temple’s tenure in the Windy City in a tailspin – Ronald J. Temple, chancellor of Chicago, Illinois city colleges

CHICAGO The meeting of the City Colleges of Chicago board here earlier this month was full of all the pleasantries and light banter of a typical business meeting.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Temple’s tenure in the Windy City in a tailspin – Ronald J. Temple, chancellor of Chicago, Illinois city colleges

CHICAGO The meeting of the City Colleges of Chicago board here earlier this month was full of all the pleasantries and light banter of a typical business meeting.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Schools of cool: jazz performance education providing a different kind of gig – Cover Story

Janelle Gill is confident that she has a future in jazz. The eighteen-year-old freshman pianist began jazz performance studies last semester at Howard University. Since then, she has played in the school’s big band and the small-group jazz ensembles.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The evolving HBCU niche – historically Black colleges and universities

In recent years, much has been written about the challenges confronting American higher education. There is a growing interest in applying standards of accountability, and many states have reduced financial support, as colleges and universities find themselves competing with prisons and health care for the public treasury. On a variety of fronts, the nation’s colleges and universities are re-examining themselves and their value to society.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Whitewashing fences and campus alcohol prohibition

The recent deaths of college students in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Virginia from consuming too much alcohol are paramount tragedies which we should all work to prevent. But if we draw the wrong lessons from these deaths, they will occur again and again.

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground

For hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poor adults, community colleges have long delivered their best chance for gaining sufficient education and training to land a job that could break their dependence on welfare.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Committed to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover Story

An often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.

July 11, 2007

Can a rift be avoided? Historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions are all vying for the same federal funds – includes related article on the US Dept. of Education’s proposed changes in the Title III – Cover Story

Historically Blak and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are All Vying for the Same Federal Funds.

July 11, 2007

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

Who speaks for you? – representatives of colored people in government’s higher education policy

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans has a new director, but who is speaking for other underrepresented groups?

July 11, 2007

African-American

Does education rationing have racial undertones?

For much of this summer, I have clipped a series of articles that raise questions about access to higher education. Though the articles have taken different approaches, they end up asking a similar set of questions – who should go to college and how should it be financed?

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.

July 11, 2007

Education Department, Congress Has Sights Trained

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges Often Lead the Way In Diversity Efforts

American community colleges now enroll well over half of the nation’s undergraduate students. Perhaps more important than the sheer number of students attending these open-access institutions is the reality that community colleges represent the higher education point of entry for the majority of minority students.

July 11, 2007