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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges

Faithful to its mission: Donnelly College provides second chances to inner-city students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. Donnelly College is blessed with a gift. Despite repeated monetary incentives to move from its poor, inner-city environment, it has remained in a single nine-story brick building – an old hospital gutted and rebuilt into a place of learning.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Report urges greater public investment in higher education

The Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE) released a two-year study that warns a “growing shortfall in public funding may force the nation’s colleges and universities to turn away half the student population by the year 2015.”

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

“We definitely cannot drop the goals of affirmative action”: a discussion with Dr. Carmen Neuberger, Gwendolyn J. Dungy and Joyce Smith – Panel Discussion

Countless studies have shown that what happens outside of classrooms plays a crucial role in whether students attend college and continue in college to graduation. High school guidance counselors, admissions officers and campus student service officers all play a part in matching the right student to the right campus and then making sure the students feel a part of campus life.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Judge says Alabama college system discriminated against women; ruling alludes to history of gender bias and “good-ol-boy” patronage

An Alabama federal judge has drawn a damning portrait of the state’s community college system, describing it as riddled with gender discrimination and rife with political patronage.

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Inspiration & information produced at NISOD conference – National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development

AUSTIN, Texas Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton was not about to let Cleveland leave Cuyahoga Community College behind on the city’s road to revitalization.

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Baton Rouge CC opening still on hold; rebel shopping center to be part of desegregated campus

BATON ROUGE, La. The long-awaited opening of a community college that will help integrate this city’s higher education community will have to wait a little longer.

July 10, 2007

Community College Photo

Leadership & Policy

Conceptual shift needed to diversify higher education

At a recent meeting in Los Angeles, the American Association of Community College board of directors unanimously approved a statement on inclusion.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Virginia system seen as model of things to come

Richmond, Va. John White doesn’t care if his university football team wins. He doesn’t pal around with other students in the dorm. He doesn’t do keg parties.

July 10, 2007

Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted

Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.

July 10, 2007

California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out

SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

July 9, 2007

U of North Alabama First In State To Offer Culinary Arts Degree

FLORENCE Ala. The University of North Alabama is the state’s first four-year public college to cook up a culinary arts degree.

July 8, 2007

Community Colleges

Bishop State Gets Transition Team to Help Fix Financial Problems

MOBILE, Ala. Alabama College System chancellor Bradley Byrne has created for Bishop State Community College a transition team, lead by the administrator to replace outgoing president Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, to help the college recover from the financial scandal that has threatened the predominately Black institution’s accreditation.

July 8, 2007

Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary

Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.

July 7, 2007

Private scholarships for minorities challenged

Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.

July 7, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007