Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Search

Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Leadership & Policy
Texas Colleges Clean Up After Hurricane Ike
While emergency crews in southeast Texas continued rescuing victims and trying to restore normalcy in the wake of Hurricane Ike, the resumption of college classes in the region was uncertain late Sunday.
September 14, 2008
Community Colleges
Student GOP Leader Resigns Over Obama Remark
The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Sen. Barack Obama on the Internet.
September 9, 2008
Community Colleges
Music to Their Ears
Last month, the College of Music at the University of North Texas held its first-ever mariachi summer camp for Hispanic students in sixth through 12th grades.
September 3, 2008
foto9_012
MSIs
An Inside Look at a Law’s Renewal
Newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.
September 3, 2008
Latinx
An Inside Look at a Law’s Renewal
Newly signed law includes more than 60 initiatives, including those for single parent students, active duty military and disabled students.
August 28, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Colleges Confront Shootings With Survival Training
Hundreds of colleges across the nation have purchased a training program that teaches professors and students not to take campus threats lying down but to fight back with any “improvised weapon,” from a backpack to a laptop computer.
August 26, 2008
Students
When It Comes To Funding, Community Colleges Have to Emulate Four-Year Schools
California’s community colleges, the largest higher education system in the nation, have launched a three-year campaign to create a $100 million endowment for scholarships.
August 25, 2008
Students
Weak Economy Spurs Growth for Community Colleges
Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.
August 21, 2008
Community Colleges
Community College Students at a Glance
One-third of community college students who enrolled directly from high school in 2004 had no intention of going beyond earning an associate degree, but within two years 47 percent of this group raised their expectation to pursue a bachelor’s degree.
August 20, 2008
Students
Grants & Gifts
The CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK has received $9.6 MILLION from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom to develop an honors program in legal studies to provide students from diverse backgrounds the training and education necessary for law school admission. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’s Teachers College has received a $500,000 grant from the Lumina […]
August 20, 2008
Leadership & Policy
College Presidents Seek Debate on Drinking Age
College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.
August 19, 2008
Students
Arizona Law Has Undocumented Immigrants Dropping Out of College
Changing laws have made life tougher for undocumented immigrants in Arizona, including young people giving up dreams of college and better lives because they are unable to pay out-of-state tuition as required by voters.
August 17, 2008
Community Colleges
North Carolina Officials Struggle Over Educating Undocumented Immigrants
In a state where the commitment to higher education extends all the way back to the founding of the nation¡¯s first public university in 1789, North Carolina¡¯s community colleges just can¡¯t seem to get past the politics of illegal immigration.
August 14, 2008
Community Colleges
NC Board to Discuss Admitting Immigrants
North Carolina community college leaders who will be meeting later this week plan to discuss whether to admit undocumented immigrants to degree programs after federal officials told the college system it was up to the state, a newspaper reported on Aug. 11.
August 12, 2008
Community Colleges
Philadelphia Program Offers Free Tuition for Community College Students Near Degree Completion
In an effort to reduce the financial pressures on current and prospective students, the city of Philadelphia and its largest public postsecondary institution has launched a new program to aid students in completing their college degree.
August 12, 2008
HBCUs
Students Accused of Plagiarism Expelled From Ship
Two students accused of plagiarism and violating the University of Virginia’s honor code were expelled from a global studies program. They left their ship in Greece while their counterparts continued on the summer voyage.
August 11, 2008
Community Colleges
Gas prices rewriting schedules at 2-year colleges
Two-year colleges in South Carolina and around the nation are rewriting schedules so cash-strapped students can save on commuting costs.
August 10, 2008
HBCUs
Students Accused of Plagiarism Expelled from Ship
Two students accused of plagiarism and violating the University of Virginia’s honor code were expelled from a global studies program. They left their ship in Greece while their counterparts continued on the summer voyage.
August 10, 2008
Previous Page
Next Page