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The Experiment

The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism is testing a new model for journalism with an innovative hyperlocal news project with The New York Times.

August 5, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Sustaining Enrollment Growth in Difficult Financial Times

A coordinated strategic plan ensures enrollment growth is not an unexpected tsunami for community colleges.

August 5, 2009

Professional Appoitments

DR. CAMMY ABERNATHY has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida. She is currently the associate dean for the Offi ce of Academic Affairs and a professor of materials science in the engineering college. Abernathy received her bachelor’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master’s and doctorate […]

August 5, 2009

Who Should Teach Hip-hop Studies?

By most criteria, hip-hop has now been solidifi ed as an essential domain of inquiry and learning in higher education. This status entails a sizable body of scholarship; symposia, conferences and courses devoted to its study; and a growing pool of scholars who have centered it in their research agendas.

August 5, 2009

Community Colleges

Reinvented UDC to open this month

Classes start later this month at a reinvented University of the District of Columbia. According to the examiner.com, the District’s only public college will now operate as two entities – a two-year community college open to all and a four-year “flagship” university with selective admissions. It’s a big change for UDC, which for decades had […]

August 4, 2009

Ex-Nova Southeastern University janitors testify on firings

Several former janitors who worked at Nova Southeastern University testified before a federal labor judge Tuesday, saying that they were fired because they worked to have a union at the school three years ago. According to the Miami Herald, this National Labor Relations Board case involves six workers, the Service Employees International Union and the […]

August 4, 2009

Community Colleges

Arizona State University Seeks Three-Year College

Arizona State University wants to develop a network of lower-priced colleges that offer three-year bachelor’s degrees, reports The Arizona Republic. According to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Offices, the undergraduate college at ASU would offer a small number of majors to allow students to fast-track their degrees through traditional and online classes. […]

August 4, 2009

Ivy League sports budgets cut ‘to the core’

The deepest recession in five decades may leave the Ivy League behind on the field. According to the Providence Journal, the economy is choking donations, battering endowments and threatening to eliminate some sports programs. The eight schools, which have educated 14 U.S. presidents and half of the 110 justices in Supreme Court history, have estimated […]

August 4, 2009

Community Colleges

Despite Shooting, Essex Votes to Keep Firearms Ordinance

Essex town officials have voted against changing the town’s firearms ordinance despite an accidental shooting last year that claimed the life of a former St. Michael’s College professor. According to WCAX.com, John Reiss was killed in September after being hit by a stray bullet. Four men were target shooting down the road have two have […]

August 4, 2009

Budget increases taxes, funds ECU efforts

A state Legislature that increases taxes on almost everyone and will force local governments to adjust their spending plans did have some good news Tuesday for East Carolina University in North Carolina. According to the Daily Reflector, the university’s dental school will receive $3 million and the Brody School of Medicine will get $2 million […]

August 4, 2009

Community Colleges

Western Pa. YMCA to offer off-campus college rooms

A YMCA in western Pennsylvania is hoping to fill 20 vacant residential rooms with students from nearby colleges. According to the York Daily Record, the Greensburg YMCA will begin housing college students in January. The city about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh is home to Seton Hill University, a private Catholic school with about 2,000 […]

August 4, 2009

Census: 15.5% of Virginians without insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 15.5 percent of Virginians don’t have health insurance. The estimates released Monday also show that the percentage of uninsured is higher in college towns, The Star Exponent reported. Harrisonburg, home to James Madison University, had the highest rate, 28.5 percent. The rate in Montgomery County, which includes Virginia […]

August 4, 2009

NCAA to Host 2009 First Team Summer Conference in Kansas City

The NCAA will host approximately 240 prep basketball players between grades nine and 12 at its 2009 First Team Summer Conference, August 6-9, in Kansas City, Kan. According to infoZine.com, the First Team Summer Conference provides male basketball prospects with resources to help them and their parents navigate the collegiate recruiting process and understand the […]

August 4, 2009

Programs Offers Grants to Help Pay College Tuition

Thanks to federal stimulus funds promised to the state of Indiana, a new grant has been created that will assist Hoosiers in paying their tuition for a two-year college program, books and fees. On July 30, the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) and Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced the program n Workforce Acceleration […]

August 4, 2009

Tight Space for New Rutgers Medical Buildings

It is challenging enough to build two state-of-the-art medical education buildings, but the challenge is even more formidable when the project site is clipped by elevated railroad tracks. According to the New York Times, this is the problem Rutgers University had to overcome to build its new College of Nursing and Institute for Health buildings […]

August 4, 2009

FAMU Law School Granted Full Accreditation

The Florida A&M University College of Law reached a milestone accomplishment last week when the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions granted full accreditation to the Orlando-based law school.

August 4, 2009

Appeals Court Hears Mississippi Voting Rights Case Sparked by Inclusion of College Voters

A federal appeals court is reviewing the dismissal of a lawsuit that claims Black voters in Hattiesburg, Miss., have been marginalized by the city’s decision to count thousands of college students in drawing its ward boundary lines.

August 4, 2009

Third Harvard Shooting Suspect Enters Not Guilty Plea

A third suspect charged in a fatal Harvard University dormitory shooting was ordered held without bail Monday, and a prosecutor for the first time identified which defendant was the alleged shooter.

August 4, 2009