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Leadership & Policy

LESTER ARNOLD

LESTER ARNOLD has been named associate vice chancellor for human resources at Winston-Salem State University. He most recently served as senior vice president of human resources for FOCUS Brands Inc. Arnold earned a bachelor’s from Norfolk State University and an MBA from the University of Hartford.

September 9, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Facility Being Built at Rhode Island University Collapses

An athletic building under construction at a private university collapsed Tuesday, injuring six construction workers and leaving crumpled steel strewn across the site.

September 1, 2015

Home

Minneapolis Project – Creating Cooks and Urban Farmers

After living with the effects of gang violence in north Minneapolis for 16 years, Princess Titus hungered to change her neighborhood.

August 18, 2015

Students

MILTON OVERTON

MILTON OVERTON has been appointed director of intercollegiate athletics at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. He was senior associate athletics director at the University of Alabama. Overton earned a bachelor’s and two master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma.

July 28, 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

Lincoln University Professor’s Facebook Comments Stir Controversy

Lincoln University professor Dr. Kaukab Siddique has made waves over anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic comments on his Facebook page.

July 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

University Helps Florida Veterans Find Livelihood in Farming

Mat Santos stands at the edge of seven acres of land, the field of his future, pondering what to plant, grow and harvest, and sell.

July 14, 2015

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Virginia State University Lands International Grant

Virginia State University has secured a grant of $748,465 from the U.S. Agency for International Development to fund a project to combat the aggressively invasive weed parthenium in East Africa.

July 7, 2015

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New Congressional Proposal for ‘Free’ College Expected Today

The America’s College Promise Act would provide a federal match of $3 for every $1 invested by states, intended to waive tuition and fees at community, technical and tribal colleges.

July 7, 2015

Community Colleges

ED Scraps Plans for College Ratings System

The Department of Education announced Thursday that it is shelving plans to move forward on a controversial college rating system and instead will offer a tool providing data that allows the user to compare schools to each other.

June 25, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Boot Camp Bolsters Skills of MSI Faculty

Early career faculty from minority-serving institutions across the nation converged on the University of Pennsylvania recently for a three-day boot camp focused on professional development.

June 21, 2015

Community Colleges

Oregon Debates Free Community College Plan

In just the last year or so, Tennessee adopted a plan for free community colleges, as did Chicago and the Community College of Philadelphia. Now the Oregon state legislature is debating whether to institute a similar program.

June 16, 2015