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LaGuardia Community College Appoints First Executive Director of DEI

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Housatonic Community College’s Edward Keane Calls It a Career After 51 Years

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California Community College Study Finds Highest Number of Women Leaders in State History

More women are in leadership positions within the California Community Colleges for the first time in history, according to a study from the Community College League of California. The CEO Tenure & Retention study, released Tuesday, found 59 out of 139 chancellor or president positions across the 116 campuses were held by women, as of April […]

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Waubonsee Community College Furloughs 36 Employees

Waubonsee Community College has made changes in its workforce by furloughing 36 employees. Employees were notified on Monday about the furloughs, which were pending approval by the college’s board of trustees at its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday. The furloughs will take effect Aug. 31. Read More

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Ohlone Community College Welcomes First Black Superintendent President

Dr. Eric Bishop was recently named the seventh Superintendent/President of the Ohlone Community College District and the first Black president in the district’s history. While some institutions of higher learning stopped their hiring processes Ohlone, with campuses in Fremont and Newark, has not. Read More

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Berkeley City College President Dr. Angélica Garcia Sees Education As ‘Pathway for Liberation’

Normally, when a new college president takes office, there’s a lot of handshaking, sitting in the dining hall with students and getting coffee with faculty members. But not for Dr. Angélica Garcia, president of Berkeley City College. Previously the vice president of student services at Skyline College in San Bruno, Calif., she started her new […]

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Calhoun Community College to Forward Concerns Over School’s Name to State Chancellor

Calhoun Community College in north Alabama said it received concerns over the school’s name as a monument of its namesake, former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun, was removed in South Carolina over Calhoun’s ties to slavery. The community college, in Tanner, Alabama, said Thursday it “received inquiries regarding the origin of its name. We […]

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Columbus State Community College Removes Christopher Columbus Statue From Campus

Columbus State Community College has removed a statue of Christopher Columbus from its campus, saying the statue was “not consistent” with the school’s values. The statue, which has stood on the community college’s campus in downtown Columbus, Ohio, since 1988, was disassembled on June 19. It took several hours for workers to saw the statue […]

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More Than 60 California Community College Presidents Form Alliance to Actively Combat Campus Racism

Dr. Shaun Harper, executive director of the University of Southern California’s Race & Equity Center, couldn’t sleep on Saturday night as he looked at his inbox full of emails from college administrators asking for guidance as anti-racist protests spread across the country. He got up at 3:30 a.m. the next day and sent an email […]

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Heartland Community College President Fills Diversity Post, Calls Action ‘Overdue’

NORMAL – It was “somewhat coincidental” that the appointment of an assistant to the president for equity, diversity and inclusion at Heartland Community College comes amid civil unrest following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. But, in a larger sense, it is part of the issues of inequality that have […]

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Levinson Named Interim President of Future Connecticut State Community College

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities’ board of regents named David Levinson as interim president of the state’s to-be-consolidated community college system, which will be called Connecticut State Community College. The board on Thursday voted unanimously in favor of hiring Levinson, the former president of Norwalk Community College who retired last year, for the position. […]

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CUPA-HR Survey: Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities in College Presidencies Persists

Data in the “2020 CUPA-HR Administrators in Higher Education Report” shows that underrepresentation of women and minorities in college and university presidencies persists. While colleges and universities embrace the concept of diversity and equity, the numbers are still falling short. The report noted that just 32% of college or university presidents are women and only […]

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