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Community Colleges
N.C. Central, N.C. State Offering Dual Degree Program
North Carolina Central University and N.C. State University are collaborating to offer a physics and engineering dual degree program.
July 8, 2015
MSIs
Proponents Unveil ‘America’s College Promise Act’
The proposed bill, America’s College Promise Act, will impact at least 9 million students attending community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
July 8, 2015
Students
Gates Foundation Pushes for FAFSA Simplification
The recommendation for a streamlined federal financial aid process is an effort to smooth out the path to college for low-income and first-generation students.
July 8, 2015
Community Colleges
Preservation Group Wants Lynching Murals Kept Uncovered
The University of Idaho’s plan to keep two murals inside the old Ada County Courthouse covered for the grand opening of its new campus is being contested by the state’s leading historic preservation group.
July 8, 2015
Home
Baylor University Lifts Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts’
Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university, dropped language in its sexual conduct policy that banned “homosexual acts.”
July 8, 2015
African-American
N.C. Central, N.C. State Offering Dual Degree Program
North Carolina Central University and N.C. State University are collaborating to offer a physics and engineering dual degree program.
July 8, 2015
MSIs
Proponents Unveil ‘America’s College Promise Act’
The proposed bill, America’s College Promise Act, will impact at least 9 million students attending community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
July 8, 2015
Students
Gates Foundation Pushes for FAFSA Simplification
The recommendation for a streamlined federal financial aid process is an effort to smooth out the path to college for low-income and first-generation students.
July 8, 2015
Faculty & Staff
Student Activists in Thailand Seen Before Military Court
BANGKOK ― A military court in Thailand freed 14 student activists from detention Tuesday ahead of their trial but said they still face sedition charges ― and up to seven years in prison ― for defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings.
July 7, 2015
Home
New York Expands ‘Yes Means Yes’ Policy to Private Colleges
ALBANY, N.Y. ― New York state’s private colleges and universities have a new, affirmative sexual consent policy to combat campus sexual violence.
July 7, 2015
Home
Virginia State University Lands International Grant
Virginia State University has secured a grant of $748,465 from the U.S. Agency for International Development to fund a project to combat the aggressively invasive weed parthenium in East Africa.
July 7, 2015
Home
New Congressional Proposal for ‘Free’ College Expected Today
The America’s College Promise Act would provide a federal match of $3 for every $1 invested by states, intended to waive tuition and fees at community, technical and tribal colleges.
July 7, 2015
African-American
Addressing the Skills Gap for Students and Young Adults
It is imperative that we address the failings and inequities of our current educational system, and the mathematics curriculum in particular.
July 7, 2015
Students
Study: Community Colleges a Destination
More than a third of the 3.6 million students who started college in the fall of 2008 — 37.2 percent — transferred to a different institution at least once en route to college completion.
July 7, 2015
Students
Tennessee State University Exposes Students to Cutting-Edge Research
More than 20 incoming Tennessee State University freshmen spent part of their summer getting exposed to real-world scientific work and cutting-edge research.
July 6, 2015
Faculty & Staff
UNC Law Professor Open New Anti-poverty Research Project
In the wake of the controversial closure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s anti-poverty center, the law school professor who had led the center has launched a research fund outside the domain of university leaders.
July 6, 2015
African-American
Symbolic Gestures Distracting from Black Community’s Key Issues
Many times such nominal gestures wind up having insufficient funds when it’s time to cash them in. We cannot lose sight of the importance of substance.
July 6, 2015
Community Colleges
CCBC Finding Student Success at Accelerated Pace
The Community College of Baltimore County’s accelerated learning program has proved successful for students, despite the mired state of remedial education.
July 6, 2015
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