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Baltimore Stands in Stark Contrast to Charleston Report: Calif. Community Colleges Can Expect Surge in Black Enrollment Media Fuels Negative Perception of Black Athletes Diverse Conversations: Why Diversity on Campus Matters in Real World

June 11, 2015

Community Colleges

Accrediting Body: Academic Fraud Nets UNC 1-year Probation

RALEIGH, N.C. ― An accreditation agency important to colleges receiving federal funds put the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on probation Thursday for a year over its academic fraud scandal. The board of Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges stopped short of imposing the harshest penalty, which would have blocked […]

June 11, 2015

Students

Rich vs. Poor: The Growing “Class” Gap in Higher Education

Two thoughtful yet troubling articles, published within a week of each other, startled higher education leaders last week.

June 10, 2015

Faculty & Staff

SUE CUNNINGHAM

SUE CUNNINGHAM has been appointed president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Cunningham was vice-principal for advancement at the University of Melbourne. She earned a bachelor’s from Middlesex University and a master’s from Oxford University.

June 10, 2015

Faculty & Staff

ROBBEE BAKER KOSAK

ROBBEE BAKER KOSAK has been appointed president of The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. She was vice president of university advancement at Carnegie Mellon University. Kosak earned a bachelor’s from the Pennsylvania State University.

June 10, 2015

Leadership & Policy

SYDNEY ROSE LEO

SYDNEY ROSE LEO has been appointed vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer of Fisk University. She was chief financial officer of the Interaction Institute for Social Change. Leo earned a bachelor’s from Smith College, a master’s from the University of Hartford and a master’s from Bentley University.

June 10, 2015

Students

Exchange Program Expands Horizons of African-American Males

14 members of three fraternities at The Ohio State University (OSU) traveled to China last month, where they choreographed a step show for Chinese students as part of a cross-cultural awareness program funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of State.

June 10, 2015

Community Colleges

Court Grants Temporary Reprieve to Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College, a historic, all-women’s institution that is scheduled to be closed in August, has been granted a temporary reprieve.

June 9, 2015

Community Colleges

University of Oklahoma to Require Freshman Diversity Class

NORMAN, Okla. ― University of Oklahoma freshmen will now be required to take a five-hour course dealing with diversity issues before completing their first year of college.

June 9, 2015

Students

Honoring Cultural Traditions of Native Graduates

Native graduates receive their eagle feathers and plumes and proudly wear them on their graduation caps or tied in their hair.

June 9, 2015

African-American

Report: Calif. Community Colleges Can Expect Surge in Black Enrollment

Only 31 percent of Black high school graduates in California took the sequence of coursework required to apply for a four-year public university in California in 2013.

June 8, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Lamb Named Interim Chancellor of City College of San Francisco

Art Tyler has stepped down as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco and Susan Lamb has been named as the interim successor.

June 8, 2015