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Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. After completing his Ph.D. in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. His focus is driven…
Leonard L. Adams Jr. has resigned his post as president of Knoxville College. Leonard L. Adams Jr.Adams, who serves as the college’s 31st president, announced his decision to step down from the role June 18. “Serving as President of Knoxville College has been an extraordinary honor and a profound privilege,” Adams wrote in a letter…
Keene State College plans to simplify the transfer process for student in New Hampshire. Dr. Debby ScireThe college and four other higher education institutions have signed on as new participants in the New England Transfer Guarantee Program of the New England Board of Higher Education. The program streamlines the process for students who earn associate…
Dr. Erika LacroUniversity of Hawaiʻi and the State of Hawaiʻi are investing $5.5 million into the Hawaiʻi Promise Scholarship, which benefits students who are state residents. “We are committed to making higher education accessible for all,” said Dr. Erika Lacro, vice president for the University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges. Scholarship funds help account for direct…
Working toward a doctorate in neuroscience was not Jazmin Guadalupe Brito Morales’s express goal when she first started her undergraduate career. During her tenure as an undergraduate at City College of New York, she specialized in biology and bio-technology – though her research at the time did involve studying Alzheimer’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease. These…
Iowa native Juana D. Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). She saw what it could be like through movies and television and she wanted that experience. Though she grew up in a primarily Black community, spending her life in a mostly white state left her with few options…
Isabel Mendoza appreciates industrial organizational psychology’s use of data to support practices in the workplace. She likes to think of it as business and psychology put together, but more people-focused. “It also encompasses big things like leadership, talent management and coaching, and I lean more toward that,” says Mendoza, a third-year Ph.D. student in industrial…
Dr. Walter Allen, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), has been teaching for 50 years. He says he keeps planning to retire, but every time he gets close, he meets a student like Passion Lord, and he puts retirement on hold for “the joy and delight of working…
Eric O. Ingram’s graduate advisor Dr. Justin Karr, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky (UK), describes him as committed, energetic, and driven when working on research projects. It reflects the focus and drive that Ingram honed as a student-athlete at Brown University, where he was a sprinter and hurdler, which also…
The new FIRE/NORC poll finds Americans strongly disagree with some of the forms of protest on display on college campuses this spring. Nearly three-fourths of Americans (72%) believe that students who participated in encampments should be punished, but disagree on the severity of punishment. The poll also found that less than a third of Americans…