Tag: Appointments: Page 71

International

Moving to Improve Graduate Education On an International Level

Twenty-seven representatives from Australia, Canada, China, Europe and the United States met in Banff, Alberta, Canada, in late August, to lay benchmarks for better practices in graduate education.

November 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Dr. Ted Martínez Jr. has been named president and superintendent of Río Hondo Community College (Calif.). Previously, he served as president of Grossmont College. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s from Sul Ross State University and a doctorate from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Dr. Derrick Alridge has been appointed director of the Institute for African-American […]

November 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor to Teach Urban Policy at Temple U.

PHILADELPHIA Outgoing Philadelphia Mayor John Street will enter the world of academia when he leaves office in a couple of months.

November 8, 2007

Home

Gunfire Erupts at Venezuela University

CARACAS Venezuela Masked gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march in which tens of thousands of Venezuelans denounced President Hugo Chavez’s attempts to expand his power through constitutional changes.

November 8, 2007

Students

In Brief: Final Suspect in Slayings of Delaware State Students Pleads Not Guilty

A Nicaraguan national considered a principal suspect in the execution-style slayings of three Delaware State University students in Newark over the summer pleaded not guilty Wednesday; nearly half of Texas’ college freshmen have to take remedial classes; the last of six Black teens to be arraigned in the beating of a White high school student pleaded not guilty to reduced charges.

November 7, 2007

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Recruiting at Rural Minnesota Colleges Reaches as Far Away as Alaska

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. The Morris campus of the University of Minnesota sits on the prairie about 150 miles west of Minneapolis, 45 miles from the nearest Target Store, and far off the radar of many high school students shopping for colleges.

November 6, 2007

Latinx

Temple University Educator Chosen for Philadelphia School Reform Panel

Dr. Heidi A. Ramirez, an education specialist who directs the Urban Education Collaborative at Temple University, has been named to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell announced Monday.

November 6, 2007

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Harvard Professor Is Bush’s Pick As Vatican Ambassador

WASHINGTON President Bush plans to nominate Harvard University law professor Mary Ann Glendon to be his new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.

November 6, 2007

Home

Many Texas Grads Not Ready For College, Panel Says

AUSTIN Texas high school graduates enter college far less ready for the harder course load than other students, according to new research that shows nearly half of the state’s college freshmen take remedial classes.

November 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Saint Joseph College President Part of Historic Couple

With her appointment as president of Saint Joseph College, Dr. Pamela Trotman Reid joins her husband, Wayne State University president, Dr. Irvin Reid, in making history.

November 4, 2007

Sports

Talladega College Names New President

TALLADEGA, Ala. Dr. Billy Hawkins, president of Texas College in Tyler, Texas, has been named president of Talladega College with plans to bolster enrollment and possibly restart the athletics program.

November 1, 2007

Students

Professional Appointments

Dr. Reginald S. Avery has been appointed president of Coppin State University (Md.). Currently executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of South Carolina Upstate, he will assume his new position in January. Avery earned a bachelor’s from North Carolina A&T State University, a master’s from the George Williams College of Aurora University […]

October 31, 2007