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2007: A Year In Review

The most high-profile story of the year touching the higher education community was undisputedly the killings at Virginia Tech in April when student Seung-Hui Cho opened fire, leaving 33 people dead, including himself.

December 26, 2007

Community Colleges

Missouri Community Colleges Coping With Remedial ‘Epidemic’

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Higher education leaders in southwest Missouri say freshmen in the region are increasingly unprepared to pass basic college-level courses.

December 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Driver For Former Ala. Two-Year College System Chancellor Pleads Guilty To Obstruction

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The driver for former two-year college system Chancellor Roy Johnson pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstructing a federal investigation by lying about corrupt financial deals.

December 20, 2007

Community Colleges

Proposed New York Higher Ed Reforms Said to Benefit Minorities

The New York State Commission on Higher Education recommended to New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer this week a series of reforms and a compact to ensure that the state’s public higher education institutions are properly funded. These recommendations and the compact could significantly improve the education of students of color in New York, educators say.

December 20, 2007

Study: Workplace and Community Engagement Key to Interracial Friendship

While the number of Americans reporting someone of another race among their “very close friends” has risen 6 percent over the last 20 years, interracial, close friendships are still rare in the lives of most Americans.

December 20, 2007

College Students Are Becoming Increasingly Spiritual

When 18-year-old Alexandria Queen first stepped foot on the campus of Howard University, she came with a shallow pool of religious experiences. Four years later, the graduating senior insists that her spiritual growth since freshman year has been “tremendous” and continues to surge.

December 19, 2007

Asian American Studies: A Harvard Aspiration

During the 1980s, Asian American students at Harvard University staged a noisy protest petitioning the university to hire an Asian American studies professor. Hundreds of student signatures were collected. No professors were hired.

December 19, 2007

Alice Walker To Place Literary Papers at Emory University

ATLANTA Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University’s library, university officials said this week.

December 19, 2007

Analysts Forecast Boom In Minority College Enrollment

Minority enrollment at postsecondary institutions is slated to see some significant increases over the next 10 years, analysts say. It is projected to increase 140 percent between 2005, the last year of actual data, and 2016, according to moderate projections by researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics.

December 18, 2007

Film on Wiley College Debate Team Scores Victory

: “The Great Debaters,” a Black college-based historical drama starring Denzel Washington, renders rousing justice to the legacy of Wiley College’s 1935 national championship debating team. What’s interesting about “The Great Debaters” is not so much the debating mechanics and strategy, but how the debate topics are used to illuminate the Black condition in 1930s America.

December 18, 2007

In Brief: An Academic Scandal Snags Florida State

Also, a Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and southwest Missouri freshmen said to be increasingly unprepared to pass basic college-level courses.

December 18, 2007

Sister Mentors Allows Women Doctoral Students To Help Each Other

When Dr. Shireen Lewis in 1997 founded Sister Mentors, a dissertation writing support group, her goal was simple: to empower more women of color to get doctoral degrees, a seemingly impossible task in the realm of graduate education dominated by White men and women.

December 16, 2007

UConn Class Explores Legacy of Slave-Turned-Merchant

STORRS, Conn. It takes many kinds of narrators to tell the full story of slave-turned-merchant Venture Smith: historians and scientists to uncover the story, actors and poets to bring it to life, his many living descendants who recall the legends of their ancestor, and, of course, Smith himself, who dictated his autobiography.

December 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

New Institute Seeks To Ask ‘The Race Question’ In Higher Ed

To address the disparities that exist in higher education for underrepresented minorities, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) is slated to form in 2008 the new Institute on Equity Research Methods and Critical Policy Analysis.

December 15, 2007

Blackface Costumes at Parties Trigger Punishment at Northwest

MARYVILLE, Mo. Fraternity monitors at Northwest Missouri State University have punished two chapters whose members appeared at Halloween parties in blackface.

December 15, 2007

Perspectives: Current Tenure Process Deters Minority Women Professors

Diversity efforts at the University of Michigan have been stalled by the denial of tenure to five female professors of color.

December 15, 2007

Community Colleges

Amid Uproar Over Undocumented Students, Ralls Named N.C. Community College System President

RALEIGH, N.C. — The next president of North Carolina’s community college system said Thursday he will continue to focus energies on helping train the state’s work force to compete in a high-tech economy.

December 15, 2007

Just the Stats: CRM Tools Help Boost Minority-Serving Institutions’ Enrollment

When institutions with deep pockets shift their marketing strategies to attract students by purchasing Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) tools, minority-serving institutions and community colleges with less resources have a hard time competing.

December 15, 2007