Search | The EDU Ledger

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.

University Health to Buy Land for Major Hospital in I-35 Corridor

The Bexar County Hospital District plans to buy land in one of the fastest-growing corridors in the nation for a full-service, acute care hospital. At a recent meeting, the district’s board of managers approved the purchase of 42.5 acres of vacant land near Retama Park, the horse racing track along Interstate 35 in Selma. Read More

April 5, 2021

Bates College Imposes Temporary Quarantine to Slow COVID-19 Outbreak

To stop the sudden spread of COVID-19 on campus, Bates College officials imposed a lockdown Thursday requiring the school’s almost 1,800 students to remain mostly inside their rooms until at least next Tuesday. Read More

April 5, 2021

Fort Lewis College to Require Students Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Before Returning to Campus in the Fall

Fort Lewis College is among the first institutions of higher learning in the nation to require students receive a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to campus for the fall semester. Read More

April 5, 2021

Fort Lewis College

A Q&A With Tiffany Howard, Assistant Athletics Director at Temple University

A Q&A with Tiffany Howard, assistant athletics director for Business Operations at Temple University.

April 5, 2021

Community Colleges

Stakeholders Call for Focus on Equity as Community Colleges Recover From COVID-19 Crisis

Last year colleges and universities were forced to temporarily close their doors as COVID-19 spread throughout the country. Virtual instruction became the norm as institutions worked to continue with classes while mitigating transmission risks, and meeting students’ basic needs became the focal point as food and housing insecurity were exacerbated by the pandemic. Finding affordable childcare also became a challenge for students working to learn with children at home.

April 5, 2021

African-American

Northern Kentucky University to Investigate White Supremacy Graffiti

Northern Kentucky University will investigate – and increase nightly police patrols – after white supremacy graffiti was found on campus, the second vandalization since the year’s start, CNN reported. The graffiti, found on public space “Housing Rock” included spray-painted stencils of the words, “Patriot Front,” in reference to white nationalist hate group Patriot Front. According […]

April 5, 2021

Northern Kentucky University

Dr. Teysha Bowser Challenges Students to Examine Their Behaviors and Assumptions

“So, what are you?” “Can I touch your hair?” “You’re not like other Black people.” It’s the buildup of slight, everyday microaggressions like those that take a heavy emotional — and physical — toll on people of color and women, says Dr. Teysha Bowser, an assistant professor in the Department of Professional Counseling at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

April 5, 2021

Native Americans

University of Minnesota to Launch Living Learning Community for Dakota Language Learners

University of Minnesota is launching next fall a Living Learning Community (LLC) called the Dakota Language House, for students looking to learn the Dakota language, US News reported. The American Indian studies department and the Dakota Language Program collaborated to develop the house. “To speak the language is to literally breathe life into the language […]

April 5, 2021

University of Minnesota

University of Lynchburg to Give Laptops to New Students Who Filed 2021-22 FAFSA

In an effort to encourage students to complete the FAFSA form, University of Lynchburg will be giving laptops to every new student who has filed the 2021-22 financial aid form, WFXR reported. Laptops will be loaned to students during their time at the school. Pending graduation from the school, new students who receive a laptop […]

April 5, 2021

University of Lynchburg

University of California and Other Universities Suffer Cyberattack

University of California, along with other schools and organizations across the U.S. totaling approximately 300, has been victim to a cybersecurity attack, possibly stealing and publishing personal data, NBC News reported. A cybersecurity attack targeted a vulnerability in third-party file transfer vendor Accellion, the university said in a statement Wednesday. “We understand those behind this […]

April 5, 2021

Sather-Gate-at-UC-Berkeley.-e1600897405228

U.S. Department of Education Provides Debt Relief for 45 HBCUs

To support institutional advancement, the United States Department of Education issued $1.6 billion in debt relief for 45 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Funding was provided under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA) passed in December 2020. Chosen schools are participants of the HBCU Capital Financing Program, which provides low-cost loans, […]

April 2, 2021

Dr. Miguel Cardona

Report: Outcomes-Based Funding Models Need to be Made More Equitable

More than 30 states have outcomes-based funding models, which allocate money to colleges and universities at least partly based on various metrics for student success. But a new report by The Education Trust – examining outcomes-based funding formulas across the country from 2017 to 2020 – argues that these models perpetuate inequities in the ways they’re currently designed.

April 2, 2021

money-2180330_640

The University of Akron Announces Scholarship for Local Low- and Moderate-Income Students

Under the Zips Affordability Scholarship, the University of Akron plans to cover the cost of tuition for local low- and moderate-income full-time students, Akron Beacon Journal reported. To qualify, first-year students must be Pell grant-eligible and live within the six counties of Medina, Stark, Wayne, Cuyahoga, Summit and Portage. Since the scholarship is considered “last […]

April 2, 2021

building-where-visit-days-are-held

Terrence J Partners with First Boulevard to Provide HBCU Students with Financial Literacy Resources

In partnership with First Boulevard, a Black-owned bank, actor Terrence ‘J’ Jenkins is advocating for increase financial literacy opportunities for students at historically Black college and university (HBCUs). Under the initiative, Project Tassels, a video series will be created to touch on areas of money management including savings, budgeting and credit scores, Black Enterprise reported. […]

April 2, 2021

TerranceJ-9746-Edited1

Clemson University Students Demand Tuition Freeze

Student protesters are urging Clemson University to freeze tuition for the 2021-2022 school year due to the financial impact of COVID-19, WYFF4 reported. Last year, in response to the pandemic, students did not face an increase in tuition fees. The University of South Carolina, alongside other institutions in the state, have recently announced a tuition […]

April 2, 2021

featured-main-campus-aerial

First-Generation Institute Highlights Social Class and Institutional Responsibilities

Social class identity was one of many topics discussed during the First-Generation Institute hosted by the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) last week.

April 2, 2021

East Bank, University of Minnesota

Champions Award

California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley Is 2021 Diverse Champion

Growing up in Southeast Los Angeles as the son of a U.S. citizen father educated in Mexico and a mother who was a Mexican immigrant, Eloy Ortiz Oakley says that he could not have imagined a journey that would take him to leading the largest higher education system in the U.S. However, Oakley says that it is the very struggles he overcame in his youth that inform his work as chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, which comprises 116 colleges serving more than 2.1 million students.

April 2, 2021

U.S. Naval Academy Vaccinates Willing Students for COVID-19

Nearly all U.S. Naval Academy students who wanted a COVID-19 vaccine have received their first dose. And remaining midshipmen — those who may have had COVID-19 — will be receiving the vaccine this week, Military.com reported. The school began vaccinating midshipmen mid-March on a voluntary basis. Midshipmen were vaccinated for COVID-19, in part, to allow […]

April 1, 2021

U.S. Naval Academy