Tag: Educational Finance: Page 69

Faculty & Staff

Presidents Partial to Severance Packages

Severance packages for college and university president can be quite hefty.

July 1, 2015

Students

Rethinking Remediation

Community College of Baltimore County seeing much success with innovative remedial education programs.

July 1, 2015

Leadership & Policy

CELESTINO LIMAS

CELESTINO LIMAS has been appointed vice president for student affairs and enrollment at Heritage University. He was vice president for campus life and senior diversity officer at Lafayette College. Limas earned a bachelor’s from the University of Iowa, a master’s from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a doctorate from the University of Oregon.

June 30, 2015

Students

KATHRINE SWANSON

KATHRINE SWANSON has been named vice chancellor for student success and engagement at Metropolitan Community College, starting August 3. She was vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Swanson holds a bachelor’s from Northern Michigan University, a master’s from Montana State University and a doctorate from the University of North Texas.

June 29, 2015

Students

Government Names Special Master for Corinthian Student Debt

The Education Department appointed a special monitor Thursday to help develop a debt relief program for students who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges ― a debt forgiveness plan that could cost billions of dollars.

June 25, 2015

Community Colleges

ED Scraps Plans for College Ratings System

The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is shelving plans to move forward on a controversial college rating system and instead will offer a tool providing data that allows the user to compare schools to each other.

June 25, 2015

Home

Navient Begins Settlement Payments for Overcharging Servicemembers

In addition to paying out a total of $60 million to 77,795 servicemembers who were overcharged on their student loans, Navient must pay the federal government $55,000 in civil penalties.

June 24, 2015

African-American

HBCUs, HSIs Equipped to Aid Incarcerated Youth

A 2013 study by RAND concluded that prisoners were 43 percent less likely to be imprisoned after release because of educational programs.

June 24, 2015

Sports

Confronting Assault Issues on Campus: Our Reality, Our Challenge

Late last year my personal life collided with my work life in regards to the issues of assault on college campuses.

June 23, 2015

Leadership & Policy

An Open Letter from Orangeburg to Charleston

If the lessons learned from “yesterday’s sorrow” do not frame new patterns of action which abort or prevent “tomorrow’s” insult or injury, then what does ‘I am sorry’ really mean?

June 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Tuskegee University Secures $500K Grant

Tuskegee University has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bolster its Bachelor of Arts degree program.

June 22, 2015

Students

Killings in Charleston Put Race Relations in U.S. to Test

Racial tension in this country became the focal point of discussion last week with the killing of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina.

June 22, 2015