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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Community Colleges
Community Colleges After Michael Brown
Despite the openness and inclusion of community colleges, they still remain tethered to the elitist and exclusive history of higher education.
February 23, 2015
Community Colleges
Sojourner-Douglass College Loses Appeal to Reclaim Accreditation
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education cited the Baltimore school’s inadequate financial resources.
February 22, 2015
Community Colleges
Jill Biden: Community Colleges Are Vital
Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, shared stories of success with community college leaders at the annual Achieving the Dream National Reform Network conference in Baltimore on Friday.
February 22, 2015
HBCUs
In Case You Missed It…
Philadelphia Futures Paying Off With College Access Race a Factor in South Carolina State University ‘Mess’ Paul Quinn College to Undergo Massive Makeover USC Researchers to Issue Hollywood Diversity Report Card
February 19, 2015
Community Colleges
Diverse Conversations: Will Free Community College Help Minorities Succeed?
The financial burden of college is a big one, but there are accompanying issues to consider as well.
February 19, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Boston College Under Investigation Over Access for Disabled
Boston College has become more difficult to navigate for people with disabilities in recent years, according to former and current students whose complaints have prompted an investigation into whether the school is violating accessibility laws.
February 18, 2015
Community Colleges
City College of San Francisco Wins a Battle in Fight for Survival
The college has been embroiled in a legal battle with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), ever since the commission voted to revoke the college’s accreditation in 2013.
February 18, 2015
Faculty & Staff
La Salle University Picks First Layperson, Female President
After 152 years of brothers at the helm, La Salle University has appointed a lay woman as its president.
February 17, 2015
Community Colleges
Congressional Report — by Colleges — Claims They’re Over-Regulated
Review ordered by congressional committee was produced by the American Council on Education.
February 16, 2015
Students
Race a Factor in South Carolina State University ‘Mess’
The barriers to the solutions are politics, race, intransigence, corruption and political dysfunction.
February 16, 2015
Community Colleges
Hate Crime Prosecutions Rare in North Carolina
Relatives of the three Muslim college students killed in North Carolina are pressing for hate crime charges against the alleged shooter, but legal experts say such cases are relatively rare and can be difficult to prove.
February 15, 2015
Students
Yale Fraternity Banned for Sex Misconduct Policy Violation
A fraternity has been banned from Yale University’s campus for two years over an initiation ceremony that violated the school’s sexual misconduct policy, the Ivy League university announced Friday.
February 15, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Happy President’s Day for HBCUs? Not Likely
You would think with the first Black president in our country’s history, there would be more of a lovey-dovey relationship with HBCUs. Apparently not. “President Obama was critical of Historically Black Colleges and Universities during a meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus this week according to several in attendance. The February 10 meeting was […]
February 15, 2015
Community Colleges
College Ratings Proposal Continues to Be Work in Progress
Under Secretary of Education Ted Mitchell said that the proposed ratings system would no longer be linked to financial aid funding, and suggested that it would be open to reinterpretation after its first iteration.
February 15, 2015
African-American
U.S. Colleges Bringing in Chaplains to Serve the Nonbelievers
Bart Campolo, 51, joined a growing movement of college “humanist chaplains,” arriving at the University of Southern California last September.
February 15, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Bill Allowing Concealed Weapons at South Dakota Colleges Moves to House
Over the objections of some student representatives and South Dakota’s Board of Regents, a legislative panel approved Thursday and sent to the full state House a proposal to allow people 21 years or older to carry a concealed weapon on the six public university campuses.
February 12, 2015
Students
University of Texas Investigates Fraternity Party
A University of Texas fraternity is under investigation following complaints about how Hispanics were portrayed during a weekend party, university officials said Tuesday.
February 11, 2015
Community Colleges
SHARMILA MAKHIJA
Sharmila Makhija was named professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx, New York. She will take on her new role on April 1. Currently, Makhija is a professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Makhija earned a bachelor’s from Cornell University and an M.D. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
February 11, 2015
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