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‘Get Close to Injustice’ and ‘Expect the Unexpected’: Advice From This Year’s Education Summit
Two major hurdles face the future of higher education — an unpredictable workforce and racial injustice — according to historian Yuval Noah Harari and legal expert and civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, both of whom presented at the ninth annual Education Summit hosted by Salesforce.
June 16, 2021
News Roundup
Student Freedom Initiative Partners with Cisco and AVC Technologies
The Student Freedom Initiative (SFI) is partnering with Cisco and AVC Technologies, with Cisco committing $100 million in technologies. Both AVC and Cisco will provide ongoing technical support. AVC will work with HBCUs to find infrastructure gaps and address them, with Cisco providing the necessary solutions to be installed by AVC. Cisco will invest $50 […]
May 20, 2021
Opinion
Broadband: Bringing Our Children Out of the Cold
The digital divide was already a national emergency; the pandemic just brought this disaster in living color to every home in America.
March 10, 2021
COVID-19
Colleges and Universities Must Revise Traditional Model, Ensure Technological Resources, Focus on Partnerships
The continuing economic, social and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are only now starting to be fully understood, but the impacts on public colleges and universities are still quite unknown.
February 22, 2021
Community Colleges
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Carbon Community College Receives $1M From Late Professor Emeritus
A beloved Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) professor who died this year has left nearly $1 million for the college to use as scholarships for students in technology. Clifford F. Miller, who joined LCCC to teach mechanical technology in 1968, was among the first professors at the Pennsylvania college founded just two years prior. Miller […]
December 21, 2020
Faculty & Staff
Can Faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Replicate Part of the HBCU Experience Through an Online Format?
It is important for HBCUs to recognize that online learning continues to be one the fastest growing sectors of higher education. Online learning has increasingly become a more widely accepted and viable option. The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified the need for this option and has pushed institutions to adopt virtual instruction rapidly.
June 9, 2020
Latinx
Webinar Discusses How Institutions Are Supporting Latinx Students During The Pandemic
Since its establishment 15 years ago, Excelencia in Education has looked at how colleges and universities across the country are intentionally serving and supporting Latinx students. Now, rather than looking at the need to increase enrollment and retention among Latinx students, the focus has shifted into how schools can best support them during the time of a pandemic.
April 29, 2020
African-American
First-Year Students at Edward Waters College to Receive Laptops
Starting in the fall, first-year students at the historically Black Edward Waters College (EWC) will receive personal Chromebook laptop computers, in a new partnership between EWC and the Follett Higher Education Group, the college said in a statement. The collaboration, called the EWC/Follet ACCESS Program, is intended to enhance student access to technology. It will […]
April 28, 2020
Students
The Biggest Takeaways About My Students Amid COVID-19 Transition
Often the focus is to hear about what students have learned from their professors in their classes. Nowadays, I find myself in a reverse role, as I have found myself learning from my students since this COVID-19 transition.
April 27, 2020
HBCUs
Resilience in the Midst of a Crisis Response
The COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for HBCUs to build on their shared history of resilience to create new ways of educating students, develop new business relationships, and generate new sources of revenue.
April 19, 2020
Leadership & Policy
Strengthening Governance at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Once this pandemic has receded or is over, higher education as we have known it will not return to normal. Effective governance will be more important than ever because it affects all aspects of an institution’s sustainability including accreditation, tuition and fee policies, curricular offerings and services, learning outcomes, facilities, and technology infrastructure, among others.
April 5, 2020
Community Colleges
Community Colleges Prepare for Coronavirus, Distance Learning
With the coronavirus (COVID-19) declared a pandemic Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO), office spaces are temporarily switching to telecommuting, professional sports leagues are suspending their seasons and national conferences are being cancelled within the United States.
March 15, 2020
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