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Community Colleges

Virginia system seen as model of things to come

Richmond, Va. John White doesn’t care if his university football team wins. He doesn’t pal around with other students in the dorm. He doesn’t do keg parties.

July 10, 2007

Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted

Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

When Emma Bradford Perry arrived at Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge from Harvard four years ago to head up that school’s library, the first thing she did close the card catalog.

July 10, 2007

Chat Transcripts (Unedited): “US Supreme Court and Desegregation”

See the full unedited transcript of our June 10, 2007 chat event, focusing on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling and its implications for equal access to education.

July 10, 2007

Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.

July 10, 2007

IHEP Report Urges Support for Working Poor Trying to Earn Degrees

WASHINGTON, D.C. When Rachel Mayo decided to attend Northeastern University in Boston, she wasn’t deterred by the $31,500 tuition the private research institution charges.

July 10, 2007

California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out

SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

July 9, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Former Texas Southern U. President Wants Trial Moved Out of Houston

HOUSTON Defense attorneys for the former president of Texas Southern University want her trial on charges of misusing university funds moved, saying heavy media coverage will prevent finding a fair jury.

July 9, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Fayetteville State University Chancellor Resigns

RALEIGH N.C. Facing a financial audit and criticism over a new nursing program, Fayetteville State University’s chancellor announced Monday she will resign this month.

July 9, 2007

Morgan State Alum to Head Pentagon’s New Africa Command

WASHINGTON Gen. William E. “Kip” Ward, the active Army’s only black four-star general, was tapped Tuesday to lead the Pentagon’s new Africa Command.

July 9, 2007

Threatening Fliers At UW-Milwaukee Bus Stops Target White Female Students

MILWAUKEE A number of threatening fliers were found at university bus stops over the weekend, and one school official said campus police were taking the threats seriously.

July 9, 2007

Wellmark Withdraws $15 Million Grant to University of Iowa Over Naming Dispute

IOWA CITY, Iowa Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has withdrawn its offer of a $15 million donation to the University of Iowa after school faculty rejected a proposal to rename its health college after Wellmark.

July 9, 2007

Malaysian PM Says Affirmative Action Policy Still Needed To Ensure Unity

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Malaysia’s leader defended the country’s decades-old affirmative action policy for majority Malays, saying Tuesday it was still needed to narrow income disparity among ethnic groups and ensure national unity.

July 9, 2007

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

July 9, 2007

BET Founder Johnson Pitches Minority-friendly Student Loan Product

WASHINGTON, D.C. Urban Ed Express, the loan company launched last year by BET founder Robert Johnson, promises to not only help students prevented from pursuing a college education because of financial barriers, but to encourage financial literacy in the Black community as a whole, Johnson told an audience at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators conference on Monday.

July 8, 2007

Tomb Raiders

The skull and partial remains of the legendary Chiricahua Apache chief Geronimo may languish in a display case somewhere in one of Yale University’s most mysterious buildings. Rumors have swirled for years that the remains are located in the “Tomb,” the headquarters of the ultra-secret Skull and Bones Society.

July 8, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Interim Mississippi Valley State U. Leader Named

JACKSON, Miss. Veteran administrator Roy C. Hudson on Monday was named interim president of Mississippi Valley State University.

July 8, 2007