Tag: Community Colleges: Page 93

Students

Mississippi 2-Year Colleges Plan to Rework Remedial Courses

A new structure for remedial courses at Mississippi’s 15 community colleges could help more students graduate more quickly.

January 22, 2014

Latinx

Genao Now More Than Willing to Lead the Way

This Diverse 2014 Emerging Scholar’s upbringing in a lower-income Latino community inspires her to be part of a conversation about education and diversity.

January 22, 2014

Students

Cheating Uncovered at Kapiolani Community College

Students in radiologic technology program took advantage of email message that included a photo of the multiple-choice test and answers.

January 21, 2014

Students

Kentucky State Drops Students Over Accounts

Roughly 200 students at Kentucky State University were cutting class this last week, but not getting in trouble for it.

January 19, 2014

African-American

Diverse Conversations: Learning to Lead

When a faculty member is promoted to an administrative position, it can be quite a challenge to master the art of leading.

January 19, 2014

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Need to Seek Leaders from Nontraditional Sources

In this environment of limited educational funds, stable leadership is the key to ensuring the health of any university. However, unsteady leadership acutely impacts historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With the recent departure of Alcorn State University’s former president, M. Christopher Brown, another HBCU has seen a change in leadership. Unfortunately, some of these […]

January 19, 2014

African-American

Scholar Works to Combat ‘Academic Fraud’ for Black Males

University of Oklahoma professor and 2014 Emerging Scholar Dr. T. Elon Dancy II focuses on African-American males in educational settings, finding inspiration in his own life journey.

January 16, 2014

Students

LSU’s Graduation Rate at All-Time High

BATON ROUGE, La.—For the third year in a row LSU has notched an all-time high graduation rate, with 69.1 percent of students walking away from the university with a degree in hand—the highest graduation rate out of all public universities in the state.

January 15, 2014

Community Colleges

Obama Announces Manufacturing Institute at North Carolina State

President Obama revealed Wednesday that North Carolina State University will be the first university to have a manufacturing hub that will help create jobs.

January 15, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Poised to Introduce Intersection Between Race, Modern English

2014 Emerging Scholar Dr. Dennis Austin Britton is bringing the “theological account of race and racialization in early modern England” to a wider audience.

January 15, 2014

HBCUs

Alabama State Bans President from Campus Cohabitation

An Alabama university has barred its incoming president from living in her required campus home with any romantic interest as long as she remains unmarried.

January 15, 2014

Community Colleges

Fighting Inequality: Is Higher Ed Creating a New Class of Highly Educated Poor?

In this era where college tuition is pretty much an automatic $40,000 a year, even with scholarships, the average middle-class family still struggles.

January 13, 2014