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Faculty & Staff

Dayton Expands Men of Color Mentoring Program

DAYTON, Ohio — Miles Tidd is now a solid, focused senior at Belmont High School who holds down a job and has an eye on attending The Citadel, a military college in South Carolina.

October 18, 2015

Students

Analysis: Scrutiny Adds Context to Graduation Rate of Pell Grant Recipients

An unprecedented look at Pell Grant graduation rates from 1,149 schools shows that, despite a large national gap, low-income students at some schools do as well as their classmates.

September 24, 2015

Students

State Program Helps Students Reach Higher Education

Today’s economy and job market are making a college degree or trade school education almost mandatory, and one group is helping students reach their goal of a higher education.

September 20, 2015

Students

MANNY ROMERO

MANNY ROMERO has been appointed executive director of public affairs at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Most recently, he was director of public relations at Baruch College. Romero earned an associate from Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona, a bachelor’s from Northern Arizona University and a master’s from Arizona State University.

September 9, 2015

Students

In Case You Missed It…

Last Year, Fewer Black Men Applied to Med School than in 1978 Senate Seeks Ways to Take Income Out of Graduation Rate Equation Admissions Pro Advises Opting to Write Essay Prison Ed Program Based on Second Chances

August 6, 2015

Community Colleges

Intel Putting $5M Toward Georgia Tech Diversity Push

The Georgia Institute of Technology will receive $5 million over the next five years from Intel to increase the number of minorities and women going into engineering and computer science.

August 4, 2015

Students

Wabash College Works to Retain Minority Students

A small, male-only liberal arts college in western Indiana is hosting 30 students this summer as part of an effort to improve its retention and graduation rates for minority and first-generation college students.

July 27, 2015

Faculty & Staff

JOWEL LAGUERRE

JOWEL LAGUERRE has been appointed chancellor of Peralta Community College District in California. He was superintendent and president of Solano Community College District. Laguerre earned a bachelor’s from L’Université d’Etat d’Haiti: Ecole Normale Supérieure in Haiti, and master’s degrees and a doctorate from the University of Kansas.

July 13, 2015

African-American

Addressing the Skills Gap for Students and Young Adults

It is imperative that we address the failings and inequities of our current educational system, and the mathematics curriculum in particular.

July 7, 2015

African-American

University of California’s Fall 2015 Freshman Numbers Sound an Alarm

Has an exodus of Blacks from the state impacted higher education?

July 5, 2015

Students

Honoring Cultural Traditions of Native Graduates

Native graduates receive their eagle feathers and plumes and proudly wear them on their graduation caps or tied in their hair.

June 9, 2015

African-American

2015 Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges

The Most Promising Places to Work in Community Colleges national study was first commissioned by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education in 2014. The national survey is administered by the Center for Higher Education Enterprise (CHEE) at The Ohio State University, which is directed by professor […]

May 18, 2015