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Leadership & Policy
Interim Chancellor Brings Healing Touch to
Chancellor of the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District for just three years…
June 14, 2006
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Faculty & Staff
Colleges Compete With K-12 Schools for Instructors
Recent pay raises for K-12 teachers in Wyoming are making it tough for the state’s community colleges to attract new faculty, officials say. A legislative committee has agreed to look into the issue of college funding.
June 12, 2006
Community Colleges
Knoxville Firm to Convert Black College Into Condos
A real estate company has bought the Morristown College campus at auction and plans to convert the site into condominiums and retail space.
June 11, 2006
Leadership & Policy
New Chancellor Seeks to Heal Tensions at Embattled Dallas College
When Dr. Jesus “Jess” Carreon, the first Hispanic to head the 84,000-student Dallas County Community College District, abruptly resigned last month, the board of trustees quickly turned to Dr. Wright Lassiter, who had been president of the district’s El Centro College since 1986. Wright, who became the district’s first Black chancellor, spoke with Diverse about the healing touch he plans to bring to the embattled community college system.
June 6, 2006
Community Colleges
From Combat to Classrooms: Are Professors Prepared to Teach War Veterans?
Apathy towards coursework. Declining grades. Angry outbursts in class. One in five veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. But as many return home and stream onto college campuses, they enter a system ill-prepared to deal with them.
May 31, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
Bill Cosby “Calls Out” Community Colleges at D.C. Event
As part of a nationwide tour, entertainer and activist Dr. Bill Cosby recently hosted two forums at the University of the District of Columbia in an effort to spur community action to break the cycle of violence, poverty and hopelessness plaguing many urban minorities.
May 29, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Study: Most Community Colleges
A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population…
May 17, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
Louisiana Higher Education Officials to Reorganize
Louisiana’s higher education officials are making moves to address efficiency and access as they continue to rebuild in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita…
May 3, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
Study: Most Community Colleges Not Fully Prepared for Demographic Shift
A majority of community college presidents say they are only “somewhat prepared” for the rise of the “minority majority” student population, according to survey results released at the 86th American Association of Community Colleges convention last week.
May 2, 2006
Native Americans
Chippewa Tribe Seeks to Curb Drug Epidemic By Testing at North Dakota Community College
Officials of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa are taking steps to address what they say is an epidemic drug problem on the northern North Dakota reservation…
April 23, 2006
Leadership & Policy
Community College Instructor Apologizes for Racially Insensitive Question Regarding Condoleezza Rice
A community college math instructor has apologized for a test question apparently involving U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that students complained was racially insensitive…
April 20, 2006
HBCUs
The Evolution of Educational Opportunities
Higher education has evolved to the extent that it touches the lives of most American adults, who at some point, will acquire skills and knowledge in a post-secondary institution…
April 19, 2006
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Leadership & Policy
Douglass College Saved — Sort of
When Rutgers University President Richard McCormick proposed a radical reorganization last year to consolidate the undergraduate colleges…
April 19, 2006
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HBCUs
African-American Males Conference Inspires
The statistics presented at the African-American Males in Education conference held late last month were downright painful at times. But for the 650 educators…
April 19, 2006
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HBCUs
Professioanl Appointments
Dr. Juliette B. Bell has been appointed vice provost and chancellor for academic affairs at Fayetteville State University (N.C.). She had served as dean of FSU’s College of Basic and Applied Sciences, was a professor of chemistry and was director of the Biomedical Research Program. Bell earned a bachelor’s from Talladega College and a doctorate […]
April 19, 2006
Disabilties
Grants & Awards
Bronx Community College’s (N.Y.) National Center for Educational Alliances has been awarded a $350,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand upon its educational initiative in South Africa, which was begun under a previous Ford Foundation grant. New Linkages: Phase II will expand the projects’ scope from KwaZulu-Natal Province into the neighboring Eastern Cape Province. The […]
April 5, 2006
Latinx
Educational System Fails Chicano Students at Every Level, Says Report
Educators, policy makers, community leaders and other stakeholders must do more to combat the dismal high school and college graduation rates of Chicano students…
March 23, 2006
Latinx
Education Gaps Among U.S. Hispanics
A report released earlier this month by the National Academies’ National Research Council finds that education and training are key to giving America’s Hispanic workers and their children…
March 22, 2006
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