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Community Colleges

Legislative Summit Urges Community College Leaders to Advocate

There’s a lot of important legislative and policy change afoot in higher education in 2019, and community colleges leaders should make sure they have seats at every table and voices in very discussion. That’s been a key message this week at the Community College National Legislative Summit presented by the Association of Community College Trustees.

February 12, 2019

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Leadership & Policy

Dr. Avis Proctor Named Sixth President of Harper College

The Harper College Board of Trustees have announced that Dr. Avis Proctor, current president of Broward College’s North Campus, will become its sixth president, pending a board vote on the proposed three-year contract. Proctor will succeed Ken Ender, who will step down at the end of June after serving as Harper president for a decade. […]

February 12, 2019

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Base 11 Awards Morgan State With $1.6M Grant for Student Rocketry Team

Nonprofit organization Base 11 has announced it has given Morgan State University a three-year, $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership Development Grant that will support Morgan State’s rocketry lab and establish a student rocketry team. The commercial space industry is predicted to become a $2.7 trillion economic section in the next three decades, according to […]

February 12, 2019

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Paine College Receives Accreditation From Two Accrediting Bodies

Several months after Paine College lost its accreditation by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), a judge ruled in the college’s favor. Dr. Jerry Hardee, president of Paine College, recently announced the news that the college is now accredited by SACS in addition to The Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS). […]

February 12, 2019

Arizona Senate Panel Votes to End State College, University Tuition Increases

In an effort to end sharp tuition hikes for Arizona colleges and universities, an Arizona Senate panel recently voted to have taxpayers pay more of the cost of higher education. Members of the state senate Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development approved legislation without dissent to add $102.7 million into universities for the 2019-20 […]

February 12, 2019

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Dr. Rumya S. Putcha: A Performance Studies Scholar

Dr. Rumya S. Putcha’s venture to the professoriate was a “series of happy accidents.”

February 12, 2019

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A Black Graduate Student’s Perspective on University Speech Codes

I believe that universities should deliberately create a community culture that maintains the safety and dignity of all of their students. This includes the creation of policies that appropriately manage hate speech and related behaviors. Many universities employ speech codes to serve this purpose.

February 12, 2019

University of Farmington Sting Hurts Higher Ed More Than It Solves Immigration Crisis

Harvard’s motto is “Veritas,” which is Latin for “truth.” Plain. Simple. And nothing like the University of Farmington which used as its signature, “Scientia et Labor.” Only with the U of F, there definitely was no truth there, no science, no labor nor even an actual University of Farmington campus in Michigan.

February 12, 2019

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Memorial Stadium Continues Legacy of Honoring Military Veterans

Even though Memorial Stadium transforms into Nebraska’s third-biggest city with 90,000 fans flocking to the Husker football shrine for games on fall Saturdays, there’s more to its story than football, Blackshirts and tailgates. According to History Nebraska, the stadium opened for its first game October 13, 1923, to commemorate the service men and women from World […]

February 11, 2019

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Supporters ‘Surprised And Heartbroken’ By Closing of St. John’s Military School in Salina

Wind pierced the heart of St. John’s Military School’s campus last week in the wake of bitter news that wafted through one day earlier. Cadets at the private north Salina school quietly conversed among themselves Thursday morning while tromping through skiffs of new-fallen snow on their way to classes and appointments. Read More

February 11, 2019

Air Force Academy Cadets Will Soon Get a New Experience Thanks to Professors

Air Force Academy cadets will soon get a new experience: college professors who wear stripes on their sleeves. It’s a pilot program that’s starting small but has big potential as the Air Force has more enlisted airmen walking around with advanced degrees than ever before. Read More

February 11, 2019

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Brown, Portman Invite Ohioans to Apply For Nomination to U.S. Service Academies

U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, are encouraging Ohioans interested in 2020 admission to U.S. Military Service Academies to apply to each senator’s office for a congressional nomination. “Ohio’s students have the integrity, courage, and knowledge needed to enroll in our nation’s prestigious military academies and I am honored to nominate students for this […]

February 11, 2019

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Brunel University Introduces Sport Hijab to Increase Muslim Women Participation in Sports

Brunel University in London has launched a sports hijab in an effort to increase Muslim women participating in sports. Several sportswear brands have introduced a sports hijab in the past, however Brunel University will be directly supplying the hijabs to their students. Eighteen percent of Muslim women participate in regular sport, compared to 30 percent of the UK’s […]

February 11, 2019

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Former Vanderbilt Athletics Director Dies After Collapsing at a Local Restaurant

Former Vanderbilt University athletics director David Williams has died after collapsing at a restaurant, the university said in a recent news release. Williams, the son of a Tuskegee Airmen member and a Detroit public school teacher, collapsed at a Pancake Pantry restaurant near the university campus around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 8. “(Williams) came in […]

February 11, 2019

College of the Ozarks Seeks to Create Its Own Police Department

The College of the Ozarks wants to create its own police department. In order to do that, the college is trying to change Missouri state law. Private colleges and universities want to have the same option available to their public counterparts, a top Ozarks safety official said. A significant reason as to why this change […]

February 11, 2019

James Madison Honors Enslaved Black Servant in Naming of New Residence Hall

James Madison University has unveiled the new name for a student dormitory in honor of Paul Jennings, an enslaved African-American servant to Founding Father James Madison and his wife, Dolley. Paul Jennings Hall is set to open in the fall on the Harrisonburg campus. It houses 500 beds. Jennings, a witness to the evacuation of […]

February 11, 2019

Ponce Health Sciences University to Increase Class Enrollment, Build New Campus

Puerto Rico’s Ponce Health Sciences University has recently been given conditional authorization from the U.S. medical schools accrediting body the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) to increase its class size from 90 to 150 students per class. This increase will set the institution as the most attended medical school in Puerto Rico, in addition […]

February 11, 2019

34 Howard Students’ Debt Covered by Alexandria, VA Church

Thanks to a recent donation from Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, 34 Howard students with financial need had their debts covered. Howard selected full-time students with a GPA of 2.0 or above who displayed significant financial need, with balances from $100 to over $3,000, said Howard’s vice president of communications Crystal Brown. During […]

February 11, 2019

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