Oliver Schak, research director at TICAS and one of the report’s authorsThe Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) recently released a report on student debt loads among borrowers who graduated in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree from public and private non-profit colleges. Key findings from the report, titled “Student Debt and the Class of […]
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Dr. Stephen Head, chancellor of Lone Star College in Houston, Texas, remembers joining discussions about free community college during the Obama administration. The conversation stalled, of course, and free community college never came to fruition. So, when President Biden proposed free community college as a part of the Build Back Better infrastructure bill, Head never
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Tennessee State University’s dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, will be stepping into a new role at Tuskegee University where he has been named provost and vice president of academic affairs. Dr. S. Keith HargroveThis will be a return for Hargrove, who was assistant to the dean and associate professor of
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The president of Boston’s Roxbury Community College, Dr. Valerie Roberson, is stepping down from the role following complaints and calls for her resignation, reports GBH News. She had been in the role for eight years. Dr. Valerie RobesonIn a letter to the Roxbury Community College (RCC) board, a group of current and former employees alleged
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Certain conditions in life can lead many of us with no choice but to hustle. There is a “do or die” mentality that goes along with being in a circumstance where there is either no safety net or a limited one. There can be a sense of desperation that can either lead to a series
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North Carolina A&T State University is mourning the death of Fatimah Shabazz, a 22-year-old student-athlete who died of complications from an aneurysm on Sunday, reports CBS 17. Fatimah ShabazzShabazz was an All-MEAC member of the university’s volleyball team who had celebrated two MEAC southern division regular-season championships and the volleyball program’s first-ever win over a
The American Bar Association (ABA) officially approves of law schools accepting Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores from applicants in lieu of Law School Admission Test (LSAT) scores. The ABA council voted in favor of the change during a closed session on Nov. 19, in which it discussed Standard 503, which requires that law schools use
