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Students

Community College Summit to Highlight Initiatives, Promote New Ideas

White House community college summit is set to open a chapter on two-year institutions expanding their role in U.S. postsecondary education and work-force preparation.

October 4, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Mississippi Universities Seek Restoration of Stimulus Funds

Anticipating the coming dearth of federal stimulus funding, Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds says Mississippi’s universities have shaved $91 million from operating expenses, but will still need more state money next fiscal year.

September 22, 2010

African-American

Obama Administration Officials Praise, Encourage HBCUs at National Conference

Leaders of historically Black schools were encouraged to pursue research and development opportunities more aggressively for their institutions during opening sessions of the HBCU Week conference.

September 13, 2010

African-American

HBCU Stimulus Funding Has Helpful Yet Limited Impact

HBCUs’ share of stimulus money, with few exceptions, did little to improve the beleaguered condition of the institutions. Click here for HBCU stimulus funding analysis.

September 7, 2010

Students

Rookie HBCU Presidents Undergoing Rigorous Leadership Testing

Amid heavy turnover in historically Black college and university (HBCU) administration ranks, a corps of untested but eager first-time presidents are leading HBCUs in turbulent times.

August 23, 2010

Students

Influential Lumina Foundation Drives Higher Education Change, Innovation

The Lumina Foundation has a larger impact on the national debate about how to improve higher education, particularly community colleges, than its financial size suggests it should.

August 17, 2010

Students

Nation’s Governors Tackle College Completion Rates

Following President Barack Obama’s lead, the National Governors Association (NGA) has launched an initiative to increase the number of degrees and certificates awarded and to improve productivity at higher education institutions.

August 15, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Oil Spill Mars UC Berkeley’s BP-funded Research

BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley’s research partnership with the British company, with activists on the famously liberal campus demanding a severing of ties.

August 1, 2010

African-American

Minority-Serving Schools Gain Victory in Science Consolidation Battle

A U.S. Senate panel has rejected White House plans to consolidate federal science programs for minority-serving colleges and universities, noting that these postsecondary institutions reap significant gains under the existing system.

July 27, 2010

African-American

Clyburn Remains Rooted as a Rising Power in Congress

U.S. Rep. James Clyburn has fought for the historically marginalized since his college days. When he was a student at South Carolina State College in the late 1950s, his political activism compelled classmates to refer to him jokingly as “senator.” This is the first of two features on Clyburn.

July 21, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholars Discuss How U.S. Higher Education Can Avoid Decline

Higher education is widely viewed as an American success story during the twentieth century, but now it’s facing a series of challenges that threaten that preeminence, said one expert at an American Enterprise Institute forum on reinventing the American university last week.

June 6, 2010

African-American

Advocates Question Whether Administration’s Proposals Will Leave Minority Institutions Behind

Plans by the Obama administration to consolidate dozens of education, science and community-development programs of interest to communities of color continue to draw concerns from the president’s allies and adversaries alike.

May 26, 2010