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Competitiveness Bill Seeks To Attract Minorities To STEM Fields
A multi-billion dollar competitiveness bill headed for President Bush’s desk has several key provisions to attract more minority students to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
Leadership & Policy
Byrne: Looking for managers to lead two-year colleges
POINT CLEAR Ala. The new chancellor of Alabama’s system of two-year colleges said Saturday that a background in education is not a requirement to be a college president.
Community Colleges
More recent editorials from Alabama newspapers
Two-year college system Chancellor Bradley Byrne recognizes a financial sinkhole when he sees one. He recently ordered the permanent closing of Bishop State Community College’s Best Grill, a “culinary laboratory” that cooked up an astonishing $1.7 million in losses in a few years.
Leadership & Policy
Interim Bishop State President Seeks 13 Firings, More to Come
MOBILE Ala. Interim Bishop State Community College President James Lowe has sent letters informing 13 employees of the school’s intent to fire them and two-year system Chancellor Bradley Byrne says more terminations are on the way.
STEM
Will CUNY’s New Math Standards Hurt Minority Admissions?
The chancellor of City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban public university system, has approved a new standard that may make it harder for Black and Hispanic students to gain admittance.
Leadership & Policy
Oregon University System, SEIU reach new agreement
CORVALLIS Ore. The Oregon University System and SEIU, the union that represents university classified workers, have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract that includes a 3 percent salary increase retroactive to July 1.
Latinx
Just the Stats: How to Increase Minority Presence in STEM Fields at Your Institution
A few weeks ago, I started to look at the programs that work to boost minority participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, specifically Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. The Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) is another successful program that focuses on helping STEM students by providing long-term institutional funding to Hispanic-serving institutions, historically Black colleges and universities, and tribal colleges and universities. The National Science Foundation provides funding for both programs.
STEM
Bogus Degree Sale Scheme Hits New York City college
NEW YORK Teachers, students and administrators tampered with a private college’s computer system to change grades and create fake degrees for money, prosecutors charged Monday. Among the fake degrees given were those for physicians’ assistants, they said.
Students
Perspectives: Abandoning Brown and ‘[Race]ing’ Backwards on K-12 Education
The recent, well-publicized U.S. Supreme Court desegregation cases make it much tougher for school districts to achieve racial diversity and eliminate racially isolated public school systems. In addressing the use of race by Seattle and Louisville school districts in student assignments, Chief Justice John Roberts declared, “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
STEM
New Law Means FBI Checks for More College Students
GRAND FORKS, N.D. A new law that gives the North Dakota University System wide-ranging authority to conduct FBI criminal background checks could affect as many as 4,000 students and 800 employees in the state, officials say.
STEM
New Law Means FBI Checks for More College Students
GRAND FORKS N.D. A new law that gives the North Dakota University System wide-ranging authority to conduct FBI criminal background checks could affect as many as 4,000 students and 800 employees in the state, officials say.
African-American
UTC Surpasses Undergraduate Desegregation Target
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The Univer-sity of Tennessee-Chattanooga is the only school in the UT system to meet its court-ordered desegregation goal this fall, university administrators say.
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