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San Jose State Dean Humanizes the Engineering Curriculum
As San Jose State University’s Don Beall Dean of Engineering, Dr. Belle Wei tries educating students broadly to help make them globally informed and socially responsible.
November 23, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Gov. Says He Wants UMass Head With National Heft
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick wants the next president of the University of Massachusetts system to have “broad wings” and experience in national academic circles.
November 22, 2010
African-American
Miss. College Board Names Top HBCU Presidential Candidates
The preferred candidates to lead two of Mississippi’s historically Black universities have executive experience at HBCUs in other states and are prepared to lead schools with distinct academic missions, state College Board members say.
November 22, 2010
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In Wake of Tragedy, New Emphasis on Civility
Rutgers University launches project stressing civility as campus comes to grips with a cyberbullied classmate’s suicide.
November 22, 2010
Students
Young Scholars Reflect on Family Ties in the Academy
Having grown up in the academy, second-generation scholars chart their own course to become their professor parents’ academic peer.
November 22, 2010
STEM
Institutional Adaptation for STEM Completion
In recent weeks the University of Southern California’s Center for Urban Education received due press for its report, Tapping HSI-STEM Funds to Improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM Professions. The report looks at how Latina/o science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors are funding their undergraduate education and how Hispanic-Serving Institutions can best use federal […]
November 21, 2010
Community Colleges
Feinstein Intervenes To Halt Student’s Deportation
SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco community college student awaiting deportation to his native Peru won a temporary reprieve Friday when U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation halting immigration enforcement proceedings against him. Steve Li, 20, had been due to be separated from his parents and sent back to Peru last Monday, but federal immigration […]
November 21, 2010
Latinx
Lone Latina Senator in Mass. Defends Tuition Plan
Massachusetts’ only Latina state senator defended a state proposal last week to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants and accused critics of the plan of spreading “fiction.”
November 21, 2010
African-American
Perspectives: A Chat and a Tweet on Race
A new, substantive and sustained conversation about race is needed but should originate in college classrooms.
November 21, 2010
Sports
Colleges Showing Improvement on Hiring Minorities as Head Football Coaches, Survey Reveals
Major college football programs are making steady headway in selecting Blacks and other racial minorities for prized head coach positions, says a new survey of hiring practices issued by the Black Coaches and Administrators (BCA) association.
November 21, 2010
Sports
NCAA President Discusses Ways to Curb Violence
Association president Mark Emmert is taking a look at what the NCAA can do to help prevent violence against women.
November 18, 2010
Leadership & Policy
College Called Key to Community in Brunswick, Ga.
The impact of the College of Coastal Georgia’s transformation from a two-year to a four-year school will reach well beyond the college’s campus, driving right through the heart of Brunswick, Ga.
November 18, 2010
African-American
U.S. Education Department Reviewing Complaints About Inequities in K-12 Discipline, Supportive Services
Experts say the alleged disparities could impact minority students’ aspirations and access to higher education.
November 18, 2010
Opinion
Guess Who’s Coming to Lunch?
Last week, I sat down to have what I thought would be a pleasant lunch with someone I had talked on the phone with quite a few times. I’d never met her but we had developed a good professional rapport. Our conversation was moving along fine — we both exchanged some of our personal background […]
November 17, 2010
STEM
Report: UNC System Should Alter Enrollment Formula
The University of North Carolina system should streamline how campuses calculate what money they need to justify yearly enrollment changes because the current formula is prone to errors, the N.C. Legislature’s watchdog agency said Wednesday.
November 17, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Morgan State Expands Community College Leadership Program Via Online
Community College Leadership Doctoral Program establishes online presence to enhance Morgan State University’s mission of education access.
November 17, 2010
Community Colleges
Experts Urge Academic and Business Collaboration to Boost U.S. Education Attainment
Education and labor experts, including White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes, explored the role business could play in helping improve educational attainment Wednesday morning during a Washington policy forum.
November 17, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Ranks of Millionaire College Presidents Grow
Thirty presidents received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008, according to a recent analysis of federal tax forms.
November 16, 2010
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