Diverse StaffCommunity CollegesCollege students struggle to gain experience and pay their billsAs companies cut costs, the number of internship opportunities offered nationwide has dropped 21 percent from last year, according to the Pennsylvania-based National Association of Colleges and Employers. Many that remain are unpaid, the Belleville News Democrat reported. More than ever, internships are viewed as the surest route to a job after graduation. However, as […]August 2, 2009African-AmericanHarvard Scholar Says He Received Death ThreatsHarvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sunday joked about his arrest by a white police officer, but also described receiving death threats and dreaming about being arrested at the White House. According to the Washington Post, in his first public appearance since sharing a beer at the White House on Thursday with the officer, […]August 2, 2009Leadership & PolicyTexas colleges’ math-science push falling short, board saysTexas colleges and universities aren’t coming close to meeting goals to increase graduates from math and science programs and enroll more Hispanic students, according to a report released Thursday. That comes from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s annual “Closing the Gaps by 2015” report presented in Austin, The Dallas Morning News reported. © Copyright […]July 30, 2009Home$1.5 million grant to help MSU educate more Hispanics in neurosciencesA $1.5 million federal grant will help Michigan State University increase the number of Hispanic doctoral students trained in the neurosciences. According to MSU News, the grant — from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health — serves as an extension of an MSU partnership with […]July 30, 2009Community CollegesFor Community Colleges, Wind Technician Training Is a Growth BusinessWind turbine technicians are strongly in demand — and community colleges are moving quickly to fill the need. According to the New York Times, in recent months, the Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan has added a wind course, as has the Lake Region State College in North Dakota. Riverland Community College in Minnesota will […]July 30, 2009Faculty & StaffNew GI Bill Live TomorrowMany have called it the most substantial improvement to veterans’ education benefits since World War II. Others see it as the nation making up for what it didn’t do for those who returned with little thanks after serving in Vietnam. But whatever the sentiment, on August 1, more than a year and a half after […]July 30, 2009HomeMikva: All UI trustees should resignThe chairman of a board investigating University of Illinois admissions said that all the trustees should offer their resignations and let the governor sort them out, but some members of the board balked at the idea of a mass resignation. According to the News-Gazette, judge Abner Mikva, reached at his Chicago home Thursday evening, said […]July 30, 2009Community CollegesColleges going paperless in attracting studentsRiverland Community College’s “Programs of Study” publication looks like a notebook and makes paper-shuffling sounds when its pages are turned. The sights and sounds, however, all are through a computer via Riverland’s Web site and the ePaperFlip software for publications. According to the Austin-Post Bulletin, it’s one of the ways Riverland, like many other colleges, […]July 30, 2009HomeObama Names Diverse Group of Medal of Freedom RecipientsCivil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, and medical school dean Pedro Jose Greer are among 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced Thursday.July 30, 2009StudentsMorgan Staffer Alleges Wrongful FiringAfter six years as Morgan State University’s media advisor Denise Brown was suddenly fired last month. According to ABC 2 News, Brown claimed her contract termination stems from a series of articles and opinion pieces published in the school newspaper, The Spokesman, in February alleging misuse of funds from the student government association’s budget. “ […]July 29, 2009Previous PagePage 53 of 115Next Page
