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Leadership & Policy

Grants & Gifts

CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF NURSING (Ga.) has been awarded the Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant of $335,299 for three years from the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the Spencer and Teagle Foundations’ initiative for Systematic Improvement of Undergraduate Education […]

April 30, 2008

Students

When I Grow Up, I Want to … Pay Off Student Loans

Sharde Jennings dreams of being a lawyer, but the $65,000 in student loans she acquired to complete her bachelor’s degree has her contemplating teaching or any job that has a loan-forgiveness program.

April 29, 2008

HBCUs

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES has received $2.5 MILLION from the Wal-Mart Foundation for AACC’s Building Better Communities through Regional Economic Development Partnerships initiative. Specifically, the funds will go toward AACC’s Center for Workforce Development. BRYN MAWR (PA.) and SPELMAN COLLEGES (GA.) have received a four-year, $1.1 MILLION grant from the National Science Foundation […]

April 16, 2008

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Bridging Purpose With Practice in Teaching

To prepare students for lives of civic engagement and economic responsibility, the professoriate must create a modern education structure that integrates liberal arts teaching practices and professional training.

April 9, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit

Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.

April 8, 2008

Students

Illinois News Nuggets

With nearly 200 degree-granting institutions in the “Land of Lincoln,” Diverse couldn’t cover them all, but instead offers a few school snapshots.

April 2, 2008

Students

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION has received $250,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to help support ACE’s Initiative for Severely Injured Veterans, which helps veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan pursue a college education. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE (N.Y.) has received a $20 MILLION gift, the largest in its history, from John and Pat Klingenstein to further […]

April 2, 2008

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Empowering Hispanic Scholars To Navigate the Academy

A Northeastern Illinois University program seeks to fill the pipeline with Hispanic faculty, administrators.

April 2, 2008

Students

Student Input Helps Community Colleges Improve Overall Experience

Focus groups find out what works in the classroom, on campus.

April 2, 2008

Latinx

Northeastern Illinois University Program Seeks to Empower Hispanic Scholars

In Spanish, the word “enlace” is defined as a mechanism that unites two or more things or elements together.

April 1, 2008

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Study: Colleges Should Be Evaluated on Campus Climate

A campus’ social climate for tolerance and its treatment of women and minorities aren’t criteria that factor in traditional college rankings, but they probably should be.

April 1, 2008

Recruitment & Retention

Golden State Responds to Shortage of Health Care Professionals

With the lowest number of registered nurses in the nation, a California program aims to fill gap through a number of diversity initiatives.

March 19, 2008