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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Community Colleges
The University Should Be Seen as a Public Good
Americans embrace the link between higher education and workforce preparation and appreciate the breadth that higher education provided to its graduates as a value added.
June 17, 2013
Leadership & Policy
Illinois University Employees Offer Partial Pension Fix
Illinois university employees would pay more toward their pensions and receive annual retirement-pay increases tied to inflation in a reform plan the Senate president supports, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
June 16, 2013
Students
Enrolling College-Bound Students With Their ‘Match’ School Could Yield Success
The College Match Program is attempting to combat the problem of enrolling students in colleges that are academically less than suitable for their success.
June 16, 2013
Community Colleges
Schumer to N.Y. Colleges: Control Test-Cramming Drugs
Federal studies show as many as 1 in 3 college students frequently use easy-to-get stimulants without prescriptions to stay awake cramming for exams.
June 13, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Alcorn State Celebrates Medgar Evers’ Civil Rights Legacy
The thriving land-grant institution in rural Mississippi hosted the last leg of celebrations in the state honoring Evers 50 years after his assassination.
June 13, 2013
African-American
University of Washington Students Must Take Diversity Course
Students at the University of Washington will be required to take a course in some area of social, political or economic diversity before they can graduate.
June 10, 2013
African-American
Morris Brown Trustees Reject $10M in Taxpayer Money
Trustees of Morris Brown College reject Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s offer to help eliminate the school’s $35 million debt.
June 9, 2013
African-American
Schools Increase AP Participation and Pass Rates Among African-American Students
Report identifies six school districts that have initiated promising practices to expand AP access and success for Black students.
June 9, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Move to Quash Journalism Center Bashed
A conservative radio talk show host and a moderate Republican state senator on Thursday both bashed a move to quash an investigative journalism center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
June 6, 2013
Students
Alabama, Louisville Passing Test in Classroom
Alabama and Louisville are performing almost as well in the classroom as they do on the playing field.
June 5, 2013
Community Colleges
Policy Group Calls for Renewed Investment in New Jersey Higher Education
The New Jersey Policy Perspective organization has called on state leaders to commit new investment to New Jersey higher education to boost the Garden State’s economic competitiveness.
June 5, 2013
Students
Petition Opposes Weber State Program Named for Mormon Leader
A Utah gay-rights organization has started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University program after the second-highest ranking leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who has called homosexual attraction as unnatural and immoral.
June 2, 2013
Latinx
Redskins’ Name Fight Shows Diversity Loosely Embraced
If Redskins name change issue is a barometer for real diversity in America, the outlook is not good.
June 2, 2013
Students
MOOCs Morphing Into a Path for College Preparation
The use of Massive Open Online Courses for high school dual enrollment programs and general access to college-level material is seen as potentially huge educational benefit.
June 2, 2013
Leadership & Policy
The Passing of a Cherished Mentor
One of my closest friends and mentors, Dr. Barbara Eleanor Adams, transitioned early last week at the age of 74.
May 30, 2013
Faculty & Staff
Mississippi Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Woolworth Sit-In
Education and Tourism Officials Unveil a Marker to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-In.
May 27, 2013
Faculty & Staff
NISOD Conference Honors Bumphus; Looks at Issues at Community Colleges
The NISOD conference examines professional development opportunities and experiences at community and technical colleges.
May 27, 2013
Community Colleges
Proposed Strategy for Community Colleges: Court Upper Income Students
Usually when a call is made for more diversity on campus, it entails increasing the proportion of poor students and students of color at selective institutions that grant baccalaureate degrees.
May 23, 2013
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