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Financial Giant Tailors Web Site to Fit Diverse Audience

Financial Giant Tailors Web Site to Fit Diverse AudienceTIAA-CREF, one of the nation’s leading pension companies for college and university employees, has overhauled its Web site by making it possible for Internet users to access three different homepages for services. Unveiled in February, the new Web site has homepages for the general consumer, college and […]

March 28, 2001

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A Leadership Credo for The New Millennium

A Leadership Credo for The New MillenniumThere are inexhaustible uncertainties and prospects for change with the advent of the new millennium. Cogently, it is important to indicate that effective leadership requires a functional working credo that is more appropriate for the years ahead. If better communication and empathy skills are necessary for best leadership practices, […]

January 3, 2001

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Mass. Board of Education to Consider College Exit Exam

Mass. Board of Education to Consider College Exit Exam  BOSTON Massachusetts’ Board of Higher Education is working to design an exit test that will assess students’ writing, critical thinking and computer skills. The test — or other type of assessment — will be aimed at ensuring students don’t leave college without basic skills, says Board […]

December 20, 2000

Community Colleges

Historical Straight Talk About Math

Historical Straight Talk About MathContrary to some Eurocentric approaches to teaching mathematics, ethnomathematicians instruct their students about how people of all cultures have used math over the course of history. In his courses, Dr. Eduardo Arismendi-Pardi of California’s Orange Coast College, cites references to the Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, Mayans, Africans, Latin Americans and Incas, all […]

August 16, 2000

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BI What’s New

Virginia Union University has established a partnership with the National Urban League’s Black Executive Exchange Program that will share learning and work experience across generations, cultivate new leaders and inspire achievement through committed involvement and operational excellence.The program, which began this semester and is open to all university students, includes such major corporations as American […]

April 12, 2000

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Caucus, White House Open Education Improvement Effort

Caucus, White House Open Education Improvement EffortWASHINGTON — Congressional Black Caucus leaders and President Clinton joined forces this month on a new package of K-12 education improvements they say will help provide a pipeline for future achievement.The proposal includes funds to turn around low-performing schools and to pay for  new school facilities that can accommodate […]

March 29, 2000

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Senators Question College Costs

Senators Question College CostsWASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much, but members of both parties struck a unified theme at a recent U.S. Senate hearing: College costs are rising too high, and no one knows what to do about it.“The most puzzling thing about this problem — astronomically rising tuition —  is that […]

March 15, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Noteworthy Briefs

State, University Professors Reach Agreement on ContractHARRISBURG, Pa. — Negotiators for the state and the union representing faculty at 14 state universities reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last month, just two hours before a strike moratorium set by the union was about to expire.Details of the three-year contract proposal were not available […]

November 10, 1999

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Financial Aid Worries

Financial Aid WorriesY2K problems could affect the economic lifeline of many studentsWASHINGTON — Many of the nation’s colleges and universities have failed to show that they are prepared to deal with the year 2000 bug and students receiving financial aid may suffer because of it, a new report says.Preliminary results of a U.S. Department of […]

September 29, 1999