Tag: Diversity: Page 175

Students

Amid Scrutiny, For-profit Colleges See Enrollment Slide

Some of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges are suffering steep declines in enrollment amid growing competition, new regulation and government pressure that led to the collapse this month of one of the industry’s biggest players, ITT Technical Institute. The industry has been losing students for the past six years, but the crisis appears to be […]

September 22, 2016

Students

Proposed Legislation Seeks to Improve Access, Completion

Colleges and universities that enroll too few low-income students and those that have the worst graduation rates could suffer financial penalties under a bipartisan bill introduced Thursday.

September 21, 2016

African-American

Hands Up, Hands Down! It Doesn’t Matter

I was talking to one of my childhood friends today about the shooting of an unarmed African-American male in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His remark about the shootings of Black men by police officers made me realize one thing. These shootings will not stop. There may be a temporary respite from time to time but the shooting […]

September 21, 2016

Campus Climate

College Student Disciplined for Photo Depicting Black Face

HAMDEN, Conn. — Quinnipiac (KWIHN’-ih-pee-ak) University officials say they have disciplined an unidentified student after a Snapchat photograph of a woman with brown mask-like material on her face went viral on social media. The woman in the image appeared to be white, and an accompanying caption said, “Black Lives Matter.” Connecticut NAACP President Scott Esdaile […]

September 21, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Benedict College President David Swinton Retiring

Dr. David H. Swinton, who has served president and CEO of Benedict College for 23 years, has announced he will retire June 30, 2017.

September 20, 2016

Students

Scholar: Texas Textbook an ‘Intentional Assault’ on Psyche of Mexican American Students

After reading the proposed Mexican American Heritage textbook for Texas students last week by Jaime Riddle and Valarie Angle, I can without hesitation state that it is obscene and extremely offensive.

September 20, 2016

Students

College Board: Reform Institutions to Curb ‘Undermatching’

The College Board’s new book emphasizes widespread institutional improvement so that students have a much broader selection of colleges that are considered good.

September 20, 2016

Students

Students Protest Racial Incidents at American University

WASHINGTON ― American University students are demanding the suspension of two White students accused of throwing a banana at a Black woman in a dorm this month. An interracial crowd of hundreds gathered Monday to demand changes. Another Black student on the same floor of the dorm, Neah Gray, tells media outlets that she found […]

September 20, 2016

Leadership & Policy

Texas Southmost College President Lily Tercero Fired

BROWNSVILLE, Texas ― The president of a South Texas community college has been fired amid issues with its vocational nursing program and a new windstorm insurance contract. Trustees of Texas Southmost College in Brownsville voted Monday to dismiss President Lily Tercero. The college earlier this year was put on “conditional approval status” by the Texas […]

September 20, 2016

African-American

Is the Sordid Birther Chapter Really Closed?

A few days ago, Donald Trump finally admitted what the rational and sane among us always had known ― that President Obama was born in the United States.

September 19, 2016

Students

Presidential Politics Tough? Higher Ed Version at FAMU no Less Harsh

In the politics of higher ed, trust and likeability matters as well. Just ask Florida A&M University’s now former president, Elmira Mangum.

September 19, 2016

African-American

Manchester University Names Center after Activist Jean Childs Young

NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. ― Manchester University has announced it will name a $1 million intercultural center in memory of Jean Childs Young, an educator and human rights activist and the late wife of former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. Young graduated from Manchester in 1954 and she served Manchester as a trustee from 1975 to 1979. […]

September 19, 2016