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EventsDECEMBERDec. 7-8The College Board, Office of AdultLearning Services“Development Effective Partnerships Between Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges”PhoenixContact: Scott JeffePhone: (212) 713-8307Fax: (212) 713-8316E-mail: oals@collegeboard.orgWeb: www.collegeboard.orgDec. 7-10Association for Career and Technical Education“2000: A Career Odyssey”San Diego Convention CenterSan DiegoPhone: (800) 826-9972Fax: (703) 683-7424E-mail: acte@acteonline.orgWeb: www.acteonline.orgJANUARYJan. 4-7, 2001Linguistic Society of America75th Annual ConferenceGrand Hyatt HotelWashington, D.C.Phone: (202) 835-1714Fax: (202) […]

November 22, 2000

Community Colleges

Double Duty: A Small Group of African Americans are Serving Simultaneously as Scholars and Elected Officials

Double Duty: A Small Group of African Americans are Serving Simultaneously as Scholars and Elected Officials By Ron TaylorWhen Dr. Mamie Locke conducted an independent study seminar at Hampton University last year, her 10 political science students got more than an Ivory Tower approach to the art, craft and science of winning and holding elected […]

November 22, 2000

Community Colleges

California Plan Would Boost Minority Counts, Route Students Through Community Colleges

California Plan Would Boost Minority Counts, Route Students Through Community CollegesOAKLAND, Calif. University of California officials are proposing a new road to admissions that could bring in more Black and Hispanic students, provided they’re willing to take a detour through community college. The proposal, which requires approval by faculty and regents, would expand offers of […]

October 25, 2000

Community Colleges

Panel Recommends Tenfold Increase For Math, Science Training Programs

Panel Recommends Tenfold Increase For Math, Science Training ProgramsAgeneration after the space race spurred concerns over math and science education, teachers in those fields are barely ahead of their students and 10 times more money should be spent to train them, according to a panel headed by John Glenn.The panel — led by the former […]

October 25, 2000

Community Colleges

Student Accused of Selling College Lab Equipment on eBay

Student Accused of Selling College Lab Equipment on eBayFORT COLLINS, Colo.P olice at Colorado State University have traced the theft of $7,000 in equipment from the engineering department to a student who allegedly put the items up for bid on the Internet.The student allegedly took six electronic testing devices from a lab during the spring […]

October 11, 2000

Community Colleges

California Community College Drops Multicultural Component In New Courses

California Community College Drops Multicultural Component In New CoursesMONTEREY, Calif.Monterey Peninsula College, a two-year institution, has dropped a policy requiring professors who propose new courses to include a multicultural component.A professor who proposed a new course to focus on film and literature refused to answer a question on the application about how course topics are […]

October 11, 2000

Latinx

Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Hispanic-Serving Institutions The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities is a national association representing Hispanic-serving institutions. HACU works to promote nonprofit, accredited colleges and universities where Hispanics constitute a minimum of 25 percent of the enrollment at either the graduate or undergraduate level, in accordance with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which […]

September 27, 2000

Community Colleges

Morris College Instructor Sues After Contract is Not Renewed

Morris College Instructor Sues After Contract is Not RenewedSUMTER, S.C. A White professor has sued a predominantly Black school for failing to renew his contract. Assistant Professor Michael Ardis says Morris College terminated his employment after he complained in a restaurant about the service of a waiter, who in turn questioned whether the complaint was […]

September 13, 2000

Community Colleges

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University status

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University statusCHARLESTON, W.Va. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants historically Black West Virginia State College to become a university, which a leading legislator says is part of a logical next step to improving higher education. “There is lots of […]

September 13, 2000

Community Colleges

Students Sue Over Campus Relocation Effort

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Students at Hartford’s Capital Community College here have filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit in an attempt to block the college’s move to a former downtown department store. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, claims that moving the college from its current campus to the former G. Fox […]

September 13, 2000

Community Colleges

Grants Lure D.C. Kids To Va., Md. Schools

Grants Lure D.C. Kids To Va., Md. SchoolsColleges and universities in Maryland and Virginia are favored by high school graduates here benefiting from a new federal grant program that offers cheaper rates at all public and a few private institutions in the nation. The program’s officials and educators say the grant, coupled with heavy recruiting […]

August 30, 2000

Students

Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community College

Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community CollegeA Portland Community College student here has filed a reverse-discrimination complaint alleging she is being denied free tuition because she is White. Adrienne Williams, 29, claims a teacher development program violates the college’s nondiscrimination policies because it is open only to minorities. She sent her complaint to the […]

August 16, 2000

Students

Where There is None

Where There is Nonettracting minority students into engineering programs is a challenge. A rural Midwestern school such as the University of Missouri-Rolla has double the difficulty, because it is a challenge to attract minority students, period. At least, that was the issue 10 years ago, when it occurred to university officials that there might be […]

August 16, 2000

Students

Natural Allies

Natural AlliesBlack colleges and two-year schools try to come together to create a network of seamless education for minority students Several years ago, officials at San Francisco City College here began the African American Achievement Program, aimed at encouraging more of the school’s Black students to transfer to four-year schools.It started out pretty small. But […]

August 16, 2000

Community Colleges

Community College Education…

Community College Education…he telephone calls, letters and e-mail requests pour in from the four corners of the Earth — from countries where government coffers are flush with oil money, as well as from those that can barely afford to feed their populace. These days, the foreign dignitaries and education ministry bureaucrats that contact American community […]

August 16, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Diversity Deferred in AACC Presidential Choice

Diversity Deferred in AACC Presidential ChoiceAfter a nine-month search for the person who will lead community colleges in the new millennium, the American Association of Community Colleges here announced last month that Dr. George R. Boggs had been tapped to fill the organization’s top spot. Boggs, 55, has been a leader in the two-year college […]

August 16, 2000

Community Colleges

Historical Straight Talk About Math

Historical Straight Talk About MathContrary to some Eurocentric approaches to teaching mathematics, ethnomathematicians instruct their students about how people of all cultures have used math over the course of history. In his courses, Dr. Eduardo Arismendi-Pardi of California’s Orange Coast College, cites references to the Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, Mayans, Africans, Latin Americans and Incas, all […]

August 16, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Community College Faculty

Community College FacultyThough pursuing research can be difficult at two-year colleges, many scholars of color are drawn by the opportunities to teach an increasingly diverse student populationBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoColumbus, Ga.Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Marilyn Howard fit the classic profile of the community college student. A first-generation college student from a working-class family, Howard did […]

August 16, 2000