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Community Colleges
Budget director named interim president of higher ed council
LEBANON Ky. The state Council on Postsecondary Education hired state Budget Director Brad Cowgill as interim council president on Thursday.
July 26, 2007
Community Colleges
Iowa community college students opt for out-of-state schools
AMES Iowa Many Iowa community college graduates are opting to transfer out of the state to complete four-year degrees, according to an Iowa State University study.
July 26, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Two North Alabama community colleges battle for robotics center
DECATUR Ala. Two north Alabama community colleges are jockeying for a robotics center that is being touted as a national center for robotics research, education, and training.
July 26, 2007
Community Colleges
Suspect in cash-for-grades scheme held on $250K bail
MARTINEZ Calif. A 25-year-old man about to graduate from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo pleaded not guilty to charges he reaped thousands of dollars helping fellow students at a Northern California community college get their grades changed on transcripts.
July 26, 2007
Community Colleges
Dewhurst makes plea for community colleges solution
AUSTIN Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made a public plea Wednesday for state leaders to find a way to reallocate $154 million in vetoed funds for community college health insurance.
July 26, 2007
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Community Colleges
High schoool educators get look at Alabama HBCU’s auto institute
MONTGOMERY Ala. Trenholm State Technical College wants high school educators to know that the path to a career doesn’t always go through a four-year college.
July 26, 2007
Community Colleges
The Changing Face of Journalism
The business climate affecting journalism has radically changed over the years. Mergers between entertainment companies and news organizations have contributed to what many journalists see as an erosion of seriousness in the news media.
July 25, 2007
Community Colleges
Pittsburgh college offers classes to potential casino workers
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh’s planned casino has yet to get its license, but the Community College of Allegheny County is already offering courses to those who would want to work in the gambling hall.
July 17, 2007
HBCUs
The Shape Of 1998
“You’ve got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night.” So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen’s new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.
July 15, 2007
Community Colleges
College Cancels “Happy Slaves” Class
ARCHDALE, N.C. Community college officials cancelled the final class of a Civil War history course that featured controversial claims by its instructors that most slaves were happy in captivity.
July 14, 2007
Students
On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ACADEMIC ENTERPRISE IN AN ERA OF RISING STUDENT CONSUMERISM
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Colleges Get Ready to GEAR-UP
Colleges and universities should prepare for a quick start of the new federal GEAR-UP for College program, says U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), one of the program’s chief architects.
July 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Fighting to Survive
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. This slowly decaying, city, once called “America’s Soweto,” is so impoverished that it lost its city hall six years ago in a court judgement to a creditor.
July 14, 2007
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Students
The Epitome of Inequality
Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
1998 Ad
ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.
July 14, 2007
Students
Washington Update
HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress
July 14, 2007
Students
Grants & Awards
The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.
July 14, 2007
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