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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Community Colleges
Study Finds Students’ Homelessness, Hunger Community College Issues
A study from the Wisconsin HOPE lab surveyed students at 10 community colleges across the country and found that 13 percent of respondents were homeless and 20 percent reported “very low” food security.
December 7, 2015
Community Colleges
State Lawmakers in 10 States Push Debt-free College Options
COLUMBUS, Ohio ― Lawmakers in 10 states launched a legislative push Monday intended to make debt-free public college a priority of the 2016 election. In a teleconference, the group of Democrats announced plans to introduce resolutions in the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, the political battleground state of Ohio […]
December 7, 2015
Faculty & Staff
In Case You Missed It…
College Grad Rates Don’t Always Benefit All Students Black Youth Filling the Leadership Void Tradition of Exclusion at PWIs Harmful for Diversity White Boys’ Club? White Faculty Still Dominates in National Stats
December 3, 2015
Students
For Student Protestors, Standard ‘Lip Service’ Insufficient
Expert says the country is failing to realize the impact of a number of micro-aggressions and conditions facing Black students and faculty members on their campus experiences.
December 3, 2015
Community Colleges
Connecticut Community Colleges Arming Security Personnel
A Connecticut Board of Regents spokesman said that the board had been working toward a decision on arming security personnel at community colleges since 2012 in the wake of a number of mass shootings across the nation.
December 3, 2015
HBCUs
CAROLYN MA
CAROLYN MA has been appointed interim dean of the University of Hawaii at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy. Ma is also pharmacy practice department chair and an associate professor. She was in charge of operations, faculty and residents for the college on Oahu, Maui and Kauai. Ma received a bachelor’s from the University of Santa Clara and a doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco.
December 3, 2015
Community Colleges
DANIEL PACK
DANIEL PACK has been named dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Pack is Mary Lou Clarke Professor and Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Pack earned a bachelor’s from Arizona State University, a master’s from Harvard University and a doctorate from Purdue University.
December 3, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Defending the Relevance, Importance of HBCUs in a White Privileged Society
There are some HBCUs that are struggling to survive and there are some thriving as well. The same applies to PWIs. However, unlike HBCUs, these institutions are not lumped into one category and treated as monolithic.
December 2, 2015
Community Colleges
Armed Security Expected at Community Colleges in Connecticut
by Catherine Morris The Hartford Courant reports that security staff at Connecticut’s community colleges are expected to receive approval to carry weapons on campus on Thursday. The news comes in the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that claimed the lives of 9 victims in early October. All but one […]
December 1, 2015
Students
Muslim Students Seek Permanent Prayer Space at Iowa Colleges
by Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Muslim students at Iowa’s three public universities are seeking permanent spaces for daily and weekly religious observances. Motier Haskins, faculty adviser to the University of Iowa’s Muslim Student Association, says he’s scheduled to meet this week with the school’s vice president for student life to again discuss a […]
November 30, 2015
Students
Community College Students, Union Call for President’s Exit
ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Students and staff at a Rochester community college are calling for the school’s president to leave, citing excessive expenses for the school’s recent centennial celebration as the latest example of her mismanagement. The student association and a faculty and staff union at Rochester Community and Technical College sent an open letter to […]
November 29, 2015
Students
Colleges Trying to Find Ways to Deal with Racial Incidents
WASHINGTON ― Officials were slow to handle racial incidents at the University of Missouri, and that contributed to protests, a student hunger strike, a threatened boycott by the football team and ultimately, the resignations of two administrators. At the University of Oklahoma, damage over a racist chant that was caught on video was kept to […]
November 29, 2015
Students
The Folly of Safe Space on Campus
If college is supposed to prepare one for life “in the real world,” should we continue to expect these things to change on campus?
November 24, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Drake State President Placed on Administrative Leave
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ― Helen McAlpine, long-time president at Drake State Community and Technical College in Huntsville, has been placed on administrative leave. The Alabama Community College System Office made the announcement in a statement Monday, and did not give any reason for McAlpine’s leave, but said it is a “personnel matter.” Kemba Chambers, dean of […]
November 24, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Diverse Docket: African-American Student Loses Bias Suit Against Valparaiso
An African-American nursing student who was dismissed for low grades has lost her racial discrimination suit against Valparaiso University.
November 22, 2015
Disabilties
Report: Clear Path from Community Colleges to 4-Year Institutions
The Edvance Foundation issued a report that lays out a series of recommendations on how to smooth the transfer pathway from community colleges to four-year institutions.
November 19, 2015
Sports
Official: Tennessee Promise Helps Spike in Higher Ed Enrollment
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s free-tuition program has contributed to a spike in students pursuing a postsecondary degree at the state’s public higher education institutions, the program’s executive director said Thursday. Tennessee Promise offers eligible high school seniors free tuition to a two-year community or technical college. According to the Tennessee Higher Education […]
November 19, 2015
African-American
Brown University Students Demand Improved Race Relations
by Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A group of 35 graduate students at Brown University have joined together to demand that the Providence school’s administration makes an increased effort to improve race relations on campus. The Providence Journal reports the group, consisting of five graduate student organizations, co-authored a statement released Monday detailing its demands. […]
November 18, 2015
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