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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Students
Peace Corps Aims to Boost Recruiting Diversity
The leader of the Peace Corps elaborated on the group’s plans to simplify the application process for prospective volunteers and to expand and further diversify the applicant pool during a speech Wednesday at the Michigan university where the agency traces its roots.
March 27, 2014
Students
Fueled By Rejection, Black Scholars Built College Language Association to Last
While the Modern Language Association never had an official policy to exclude Blacks from participating in one of the world’s largest academic organizations, they concede that for decades its membership wasn’t eager to bring African Americans into their ranks.
March 27, 2014
HBCUs
Diverse on the Go …
Senior Writer Jamal Watson is in New Orleans through Saturday covering the 74th Annual Convention of the College Language Association. If you can’t catch up to him in person, you can connect via jwatson1@diverseeducation.com or follow him on twitter @jamalericwatson
March 26, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Teaching Students the Process to Societal Change
One aspect that I try to instill in my students is that very little that is accomplished is done so alone
March 25, 2014
Community Colleges
Mississippi College Savings Plan to Reopen Enrollment
JACKSON, Miss.—A board has voted unanimously to re-open enrollment this fall in the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program. The state-backed savings plan had been closed to new enrollees since the fall of 2012 because of concerns about a funding shortfall. State Treasurer Lynn Fitch says in a news release that when the board voted […]
March 25, 2014
Community Colleges
In Case You Missed It …
Diverse Conversations: Potential Paths to Reforming College Debt Many Institutions Continue to Struggle With Gender Imbalance If You Dare to Discuss Racial Issues, Then You Are a Racist American Council on Education Wary of Obama Administration’s Plan to Rank Schools
March 20, 2014
HBCUs
Jackson State Wins Approval for $47M Dorm Complex
Jackson State University is moving ahead with a $47.3 million plan to build a new 628-bed housing complex, a 650-seat dining hall and a conference center, to be finished by January 2016.
March 20, 2014
Faculty & Staff
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Names Tuajuanda Jordan President
St. Mary’s College of Maryland has named a dean and scientist from Lewis and Clark College as the school’s next president.
March 19, 2014
Asian American Pacific Islander
Calif. Democrats Scrap Higher Ed Affirmative Action Amendment
Bowing to pressure from within their party, Democrats in the legislature abandoned an attempt to repeal California’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action in the state’s higher education system.
March 18, 2014
Community Colleges
Calif. College Student Arrested in Plot to Fight in Syria
Beginning last spring, Nicholas Teausant began expressing on his online photography account a desire to see America’s downfall.
March 17, 2014
Disabilties
It’s Called Class Warfare
So, we can solve inequality by blaming the poor?
March 17, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Southern Miss Wins Race, Origin, Ethnic Suit from Former Grad Student
Court of Appeals upholds decision that dismissed the case of Maria Salcido vs. the University of Southern Mississippi for race, national origin and ethnic discrimination.
March 16, 2014
Community Colleges
Colleges Offer to Pay Students to Take Year Off
Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that they can benefit from “gap years.”
March 16, 2014
Community Colleges
Blacks, Latinos Projected to Lead Growth in U.S. Higher Education Enrollments
The U.S. Education Department projects that, between 2011 and 2022, Black and Latino higher education enrollment growth will surge by 26 and 27 percent, respectively.
March 13, 2014
Community Colleges
Pathway from a Liberal Arts Education to a Job at Google
Here’s how a liberal arts education can help a student prepare for a successful future career.
March 12, 2014
Community Colleges
30th Anniversary Edition
In one of Diverse’s largest issues this year, we cover the issues and people that have impacted the past 30 years of diversity in higher education, including standardized testing, legal battles, the growth of women presidents at HBCUs and gender imbalance on college campuses.
March 12, 2014
Community Colleges
Pa. Universities Will be Permitted to Leave State System Under New Proposal
Some Pennsylvania state lawmakers want state-owned universities to be able to leave the 14-member State System so the schools can better cope with enrollment trends and financial pressures.
March 11, 2014
Faculty & Staff
NAACP Opposes Gov. McConnell for President of Charleston College
S.C.—Civil rights leaders say they oppose Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell, a Civil War re-enactor, for president of the College of Charleston.
March 10, 2014
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