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Community Colleges

Virginia Announces Plans for Easier Credit Transfers

This week, the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia announced their approved plans to provide community college students a smoother transition into a four year institution.The Passport Program requires community college students to take general education classes that would be accepted at almost every public four-year university.

July 19, 2019

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Faculty & Staff

New California Bill Benefits Part-Time Community College Faculty

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law that will eliminate the three-year cap on the transfer of sick leave between districts at all education levels.

July 19, 2019

New Bill Addresses Barriers to Upward Bound Grants

The U.S. Department of Education rejected grants from one of the TRIO programs, Upward Bound, a few years ago because of clerical errors such as incorrect fonts and margins. A new bill – the Educational Opportunities and Success Act – was introduced to prevent those type of slips from getting in the way of federal […]

July 19, 2019

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No Stings as Idaho State Removes Huge Beehive

Beekeepers, aided by maintenance workers, have removed roughly 30,000 bees that built a huge hive inside an Idaho State University campus landmark. The bees were safely transported from the stone-and-wood Swanson Arch to a hive box at a nearby farm on Friday, according to an Associated Press report in the Idaho State Journal. Beekeeper Sarah […]

July 19, 2019

New Report Finds Stark Inequity in Chicago Higher Education

None of the Chicago-area four-year public universities, as of 2016, has been able to graduate more than half of their Black and Latinx students. The Partnership for College Completion shared this and other findings in a report released yesterday, based on a regional study of college enrollment and graduation rates for slow-income and minority students in and around Chicago.

July 18, 2019

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Community Colleges

California Using Scholarships to Lure Students to Community College

To assist with the other costs of college besides tuition, the Los Rios Community College District has announced a new $750,000 scholarship for first-year students.The scholarship was funded by Wells Fargo, SAFE Credit Union, Sutter Health and VSP Global and was created as an incentive for students to enroll in college.

July 18, 2019

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Pitt Urban Education Forum Dissects School-to-Prison Pipeline

Using education and activism to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline is an ongoing battle that is as fierce as ever, according to speakers on the opening day of the 2019 Summer Educator Forum presented by the Center for Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

July 18, 2019

Leadership & Policy

Hampshire College Appoints New President

This week, Hampshire College appointed its eighth president, Dr. Edward Wingenbach. He received a unanimous vote from the board of trustees.

July 18, 2019

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Dr. James L. Moore III Honored at ICIE Conference

Dr. James L. Moore, III, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Ohio State University was honored with the ICIE – MACH III Award for Leadership in Gifted Education and Creativity at the 17th Annual International Conference on: Excellence, Innovation, & Creativity in Basic-Higher Education & Psychology, Presented by the Minority […]

July 18, 2019

Grant to Help Marquette Professor Study Stroke Rehab

To further study stroke rehabilitation, Dr. Allison Hyngstrom, associate professor and chair of the physical therapy department in the College of Health Sciences at Marquette University, received a $2.3 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Hyngstrom will collaborate with Dr. Matthew Durand, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Medical […]

July 18, 2019

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Asian American Pacific Islander

The Trauma of ‘Go Back’: Calling Out Racism in Full

When I was a freshman in high school, I was walking to my geometry class for sixth period. A loud voice boomed down the hall, “Hey, Korean trash, go home!” In an almost exclusively White high school, I knew that the insult was being hurled at me.

July 18, 2019

Salt at Heart of Nuclear Research for Team

Dr. Rusty Towell, professor of engineering and physics at Abilene Christian University (ACU), hopes to change the way nuclear power is understood by the public. Over the next five years, Towell and his team of 30 people will study molten salt reactors in the school’s Nuclear Energy eXperimental Testing (NEXT) lab. Through the Department of […]

July 18, 2019

University of Maryland Summer Camp Strives to Diversify Computer Science

The number of jobs in computer science is expected to grow by 19 percent by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But women only graduate with 18 percent of computer science bachelor’s degrees. This summer, the University of Maryland continues to combat this disparity with summer camps.

July 17, 2019

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Higher Ed Faces Affirmative Action, Other Equity and Diversity Issues in Courts

As court battles wage over affirmative action, academics with legal expertise see other actual and potential points of litigation that could have a major impact on diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education.

July 17, 2019

Four Hiring Strategies for Increasing Faculty Diversity

Diversifying the faculty remains one of the most central challenges facing American higher education today. This is not to say that White faculty cannot be successful with students of color. However, it is certainly important for students to see people who look like them at some point in their academic career

July 17, 2019

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Virginia Universities Team to Fight Opioid Epidemic

Five universities in Virginia have come together in a consortium to help fight the opioid epidemic, the Associated Press reports. Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia and Old Dominion, George Mason and Virginia State universities have partnered with the commonwealth’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services to support prevention and treatment programs and to […]

July 17, 2019

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Auburn President Exits with $3.5M Payout

Departed Auburn University president Dr. Steven Leath will receive $4.5 million over a period of three years, according to documents outlining the separation agreement obtained by the Opelika-Auburn News, according to an Associated Press report in the Des Moines Register. The deal means the university will pay Leath more than double the $625,000 annual salary […]

July 17, 2019

Ohio State Reviewing Millions in Gifts from Epstein

Ohio State University is reviewing gifts it may have received from financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged this month with sexually abusing dozens of girls, according to an Associated Press report. “Epstein is a convicted sex offender whose crimes are reprehensible, and his association with these gifts to the university is concerning,” the university said in […]

July 17, 2019