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Community Colleges

Undergrads Get Tips From the Experts at College Language Association Convention

Students showed off their academic prowess before the largest gathering of literary and language scholars whose work focuses on African, Caribbean and African American themes.

March 30, 2014

Students

Peace Corps Aims to Boost Recruiting Diversity

The leader of the Peace Corps elaborated on the group’s plans to simplify the application process for prospective volunteers and to expand and further diversify the applicant pool during a speech Wednesday at the Michigan university where the agency traces its roots.

March 27, 2014

Students

Fueled By Rejection, Black Scholars Built College Language Association to Last

While the Modern Language Association never had an official policy to exclude Blacks from participating in one of the world’s largest academic organizations, they concede that for decades its membership wasn’t eager to bring African Americans into their ranks.

March 27, 2014

HBCUs

Diverse on the Go …

Senior Writer Jamal Watson is in New Orleans through Saturday covering the 74th Annual Convention of the College Language Association. If you can’t catch up to him in person, you can connect via [email protected] or follow him on twitter @jamalericwatson

March 26, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Teaching Students the Process to Societal Change

One aspect that I try to instill in my students is that very little that is accomplished is done so alone

March 25, 2014

Community Colleges

Mississippi College Savings Plan to Reopen Enrollment

JACKSON, Miss.—A board has voted unanimously to re-open enrollment this fall in the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition program. The state-backed savings plan had been closed to new enrollees since the fall of 2012 because of concerns about a funding shortfall. State Treasurer Lynn Fitch says in a news release that when the board voted […]

March 25, 2014

Community Colleges

In Case You Missed It …

Diverse Conversations: Potential Paths to Reforming College Debt Many Institutions Continue to Struggle With Gender Imbalance If You Dare to Discuss Racial Issues, Then You Are a Racist American Council on Education Wary of Obama Administration’s Plan to Rank Schools

March 20, 2014

HBCUs

Jackson State Wins Approval for $47M Dorm Complex

Jackson State University is moving ahead with a $47.3 million plan to build a new 628-bed housing complex, a 650-seat dining hall and a conference center, to be finished by January 2016.

March 20, 2014

Faculty & Staff

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Names Tuajuanda Jordan President

St. Mary’s College of Maryland has named a dean and scientist from Lewis and Clark College as the school’s next president.

March 19, 2014

Asian American Pacific Islander

Calif. Democrats Scrap Higher Ed Affirmative Action Amendment

Bowing to pressure from within their party, Democrats in the legislature abandoned an attempt to repeal California’s voter-approved ban on affirmative action in the state’s higher education system.

March 18, 2014

Community Colleges

Calif. College Student Arrested in Plot to Fight in Syria

Beginning last spring, Nicholas Teausant began expressing on his online photography account a desire to see America’s downfall.

March 17, 2014

Disabilties

It’s Called Class Warfare

So, we can solve inequality by blaming the poor?

March 17, 2014