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Can a rift be avoided? Historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions are all vying for the same federal funds – includes related article on the US Dept. of Education’s proposed changes in the Title III – Cover Story

Historically Blak and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are All Vying for the Same Federal Funds.

July 11, 2007

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

Who speaks for you? – representatives of colored people in government’s higher education policy

The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans has a new director, but who is speaking for other underrepresented groups?

July 11, 2007

African-American

Does education rationing have racial undertones?

For much of this summer, I have clipped a series of articles that raise questions about access to higher education. Though the articles have taken different approaches, they end up asking a similar set of questions – who should go to college and how should it be financed?

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.

July 11, 2007

Education Department, Congress Has Sights Trained

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges Often Lead the Way In Diversity Efforts

American community colleges now enroll well over half of the nation’s undergraduate students. Perhaps more important than the sheer number of students attending these open-access institutions is the reality that community colleges represent the higher education point of entry for the majority of minority students.

July 11, 2007

Beyond Black & White: Transforming African American Politics. – book reviews

In the twenty-nine years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of conservatism as the dominant force in national politics, many scholars and intellectuals have struggled mightily to explain “what has happened” to Black people. As the millennium approaches, academia, and we as a society, have been confronted with the issue of racism and have sought to re-examine those public policies which have directly impacted the quality of the Black American experience.

July 10, 2007

Tennessee college becomes battleground of words and wits: nineteen Shelby State nursing students dropped from program stir controversy – Shelby State Community College

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Higher education officials are locked in an unusual battle of words and wills with several state legislators here – all over a dispute about failed nursing students.

July 10, 2007

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