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Community Colleges

Community Colleges: More Than a Reasonable Alternative to Success

Community Colleges: More Than a Reasonable Alternative to SuccessTwenty-six years ago when I began my professional career, I told the dean with whom I interviewed that the reason I wanted to teach at a community college was because students who enrolled there did so because they wanted an education. Not because of the football team […]

August 16, 2000

Roaring up from Behind

Roaring up from BehindWhile a report from the Southern Regional Education Board acknowledges falling short of remedial education goals, one college offers an example of developmental successLARGO, Md. — They don’t like calling the students “at risk.” “Underprepared” is a more accurate phrase. They also don’t like to use the term “remedial education.” “Educational development” […]

August 2, 2000

Remediation Reform

Remediation ReformOnly time will tell whether California’s remediation policy will continue to turn out success stories or if disadvantaged students who can’t catch up in time will mark the system’s biggest failure. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Kountz is feeling the pressure. Having completed his first year of classes at California State University-Sacramento, the Richmond, Calif., […]

August 2, 2000

Leadership & Policy

West Virginia State Reels Over Community College Compliance

West Virginia State Reels Over Community College ComplianceINSTITUTE, W.Va. — When lawmakers considered granting independence to West Virginia State College’s community and technical college this spring in the name of higher education reform, Dr. Hazo Carter Jr., the school’s president, lobbied fiercely to keep the school intact.He phoned legislators. He called in political chips. He […]

July 19, 2000

Faculty & Staff

An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom

An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]

July 19, 2000

Academic Freedom without Tenure

Community Colleges

BI What’s New

This fall, adding to its reputation as a leader in the sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana will become the nation’s first historically Black college or university to independently offer a degree in the field of computer engineering. The small liberal arts institution, which is located in New Orleans, will become the second university in the […]

July 5, 2000

Community Colleges

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For Education

We Must Keep Youth Thirsting For EducationRosa M. Jones, the 72-year-old mother of five children, received a Bachelor of Science degree in interdisciplinary studies from Norfolk State University in December 1999. Her accomplishment would have been notable at any age, under any circumstances, since fewer than 15 percent of all African Americans over age 25 […]

July 5, 2000

BI What’s New

Nearly 450,000 students play college sports each year. But there are fewer than 3,500 allied health-care providers on hand daily to provide for their safety. That’s one allied health-care provider for every 138 collegiate athletes.Now there are new guidelines, established by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, that will help colleges and universities in estimating the […]

June 7, 2000

Washington Briefs

Clinton Initiative Would Improve Access to ServicesWASHINGTON — A new initiative from the Clinton administration and several members of Congress may benefit Black colleges, two-year institutions and students of color in high-poverty areas of the South.The president’s New Markets initiative seeks to promote economic development and community improvements in several high-poverty areas nationwide. Following the […]

May 24, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Marshall B. Bass has been elected chairman of South Carolina’s Voorhees College Board of Trustees. Bass is the founder of Marshall B. Bass and Associates Inc., a management consulting firm. Bass earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and doctorates of law from North Carolina Central University and civil laws from […]

May 24, 2000

Community Colleges

Conference Examines Digital Divide

Conference Examines Digital DivideAs an administrator and computer science instructor at West Los Angeles College, Zenobia Millet had a busy agenda last month at the Community College Foundation’s Tech Ed 2000 educational technology conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Looking to forge partnerships with computer software and hardware companies, Millet spent much of her time meeting […]

April 26, 2000

Community Colleges

Provost Says Opposing View Led to His Ouster

Provost Says Opposing View Led to His OusterINSTITUTE, W.Va. – The president of West Virginia State College stripped the provost for the school’s community college program of his duties late last month.Dr. George Bilicic says it is because he backed a bill to create a new statewide community college system. Bilicic says his support for […]

April 12, 2000

Community Colleges

West Virginia State Denounces Community College Plan

West Virginia State Denounces Community College PlanCHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers passed a controversial higher education reform bill last month despite protests from administrators, faculty and students at a historically Black college who contended the measure could doom their school.The new law stirred dissent because it would have created a statewide community college system […]

April 12, 2000

Researchers Investigate Persistence Among Minority Two-Year Transferees

Researchers Investigate Persistence Among Minority Two-Year TransfereesRALEIGH, N.C. — You can lead a community college student to a university, but can you make him graduate? That’s a question Dr. Wynetta Y. Lee, a specialist in adult and community college education at North Carolina State University, hopes to answer this summer when she completes a study […]

March 29, 2000

Community Colleges

For Bush, ‘Bob Jones’ May Spell T-r-o-u-b-l-e

For Bush, ‘Bob Jones’ May Spell T-r-o-u-b-l-eGREENVILLE, S.C. — In politics, labels can be a blessing or a curse. They can create a mental image that 1,000 words cannot. For Dan Quayle, “potatoe” spelled trouble. And for George W. Bush, “Bob Jones University” is quickly becoming a phrase that could saddle him with some serious […]

March 15, 2000

Community Colleges

Campaign 2000

WASHINGTON — The presidential race is heating up, but so far most candidates are not spending much time on higher education issues.Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain have been locked in heated primary debates, yet education issues are not often on the front burner. The problem is […]

March 15, 2000

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Clinton Joins Waters To Address ‘Digital Divide’WASHINGTON — African Americans and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to get connected to the Internet, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., with help from President Clinton, is doing something about it.With Waters’ help, the White House is requesting $100 million in fiscal 2001 for community technology centers that […]

March 1, 2000

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Henry D. Shannon has been named chancellor of St Louis Community College’s Forest Park campus. He was previously acting chancellor and president. Shannon’s experience includes administrative positions at Saint Louis University and Harris-Stowe College. He earned his bachelor’s in elementary education from Harris-Stowe College, and a master’s and doctorate in counseling education, both […]

March 1, 2000