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Community Colleges
Community colleges and universities must turn out more graduates, Texas panel says
Austin Texas Colleges and universities will have to turn out thousands more graduates for Texas to remain economically competitive, according to a ground-breaking report by a coalition of higher education institutions from across the state.
June 22, 2007
Community Colleges
College attendance increasing in the South: closes in on national average
College attendance rates in southern states more closely resemble those found in the rest of the country, according to a new report on the state of education in the region. But while more Southerners as a whole are attending college than 15 years ago, progress in college attendance for students from different racial and ethnic groups have not kept pace.
June 22, 2007
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Academics shouldn’t be penalized for moving – that’s what Americans do
Perhaps more than any other country, American society gives its citizens freedom to move from place to place and from job to job. However in higher education, there is a strange irony. In a country which has one of the most mobile populations in the world (40 percent of the workforce changes jobs yearly), some faculty members, administrators, and board members look upon those who move frequently with a level of suspicion which denigrates otherwise excellent credentials. It seems that academia values freedom of thought only as long as all the thought is done in one place.
June 22, 2007
Community Colleges
The Magnificent Twelve: Florida’s Black Junior Colleges. – book reviews
by Walter L. Smith, Ph.D. Four-G Publishers Available through Smith and Smith, Inc. 4830 N.W. 43rd Street Suite 291 Gainesville, FL 38602 Hardcover: $25.00
June 22, 2007
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The affirmative action debate & collegiality – in academia
When California voters go to the polls on November 5, they will vote on Proposition 209 — the so-called California Civil Rights Initiative — the ballot measure that would essentially outlaw affirmative action in the state of California.
June 22, 2007
Students
Technology … it’s not just for science departments anymore – implementing technology at colleges
As a graduate student at Ohio State University in the early 1990s, Dr. Leslie Fenwick had grown accustomed to having access to computers and to using her own campus-issued computer. “They were part of the landscape. Computers were just part of the university setting,” Fenwick said.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Reporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universities
Universities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Appreciation: Louis Westerfield, 1949-1996 – Obituary
On August 2-4. 1996. Louis Westerfield — law school dean at three schools, law professor at four schools, author, judge, community leader, and dedicated family man — died of a heart attack in New Orleans.
June 22, 2007
Paul Butler
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Is racism a male thing? Study suggests that men have less tolerance than women
A new study that suggests racism within small groups appears to affect men more than women may have immense implications.
June 22, 2007
Students
Building a cadre of Ph.D.s – scholarship program
To increase the number of African-American men with doctorates in the sciences, the 100 Black Men of America and the National Consortium for Educational Access (NCEA) have begun a new fellowship program.
June 22, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Top UI official demoted after letter scheme revealed
MOSCOW Idaho A top University of Idaho official has been demoted after being connected to a letter critical of a school researcher.
June 22, 2007
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Florida Memorial University Student Close to Setting Aviation Record
HOUSTON Two stops before completing his record-setting, around-the-world flight, Barrington Irving glided into Houston on Saturday with a message for the about 50 students who cheered his arrival.
June 22, 2007
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Supreme Court to Rule on Kentucky, Seattle School Integration Cases
WASHINGTON Nearly seven months have passed since the Supreme Court heard arguments about public school integration plans. A decision, it seems, is finally at hand.
June 22, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Reaching out to young Black men: a dedicated and determined group of scholars offer the lure of the academy – includes related article on the Meyerhoff program as evaluated by a student – side bar listing academic programs for Black male students – Cover
The low numbers of African-American males seeking higher education is a problem that has been talked about, written about, and studied. Now, some colleges and universities seem willing to put their money where their mouths are.
June 22, 2007
Students
Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College
A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.
June 22, 2007
Latinx
President’s Hispanic education commission releases report
The long-awaited report by the President’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans was finally released last month with few surprises and a grim picture for both Latinos and the nation.
June 22, 2007
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African American males in higher education: reframing the issue – The Last Word – Column
Despite the many problems that plague African-American males, the practice of classifying us as an “endangered species” has always struck me as a convenient, but a regrettable, sound bite.
June 22, 2007
Latinx
Senate bill freezes HBCUs – Historically Black Colleges and Universities – includes related article on special education grants – Washington Update
Education Department (ED) support for historically Black colleges and universities likely will remain frozen at current levels next year, based on recent action by members of the U.S. Senate.
June 22, 2007
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