November 2022

Financial aid was necessary to paying for college for most students, according to a survey of more than 500 student scholarship recipients.Mike Nylund 521 students responded to the online survey, done by Scholarship America from Sep. 14 to Oct. 9. Among those who responded to the national survey, 90% said scholarships are extremely helpful or […]

Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. For teacher and producer Brandi Webb, those names were the last straw. She began work on a passion project, creating a film that would illustrate the violence

In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Resignation, faculty and staff burnout is a major problem in higher education. A 2022 Gallup poll found that educators reported the highest level of burnout of any industry, and 35% of college and university workers reported “always” or “very often” feeling burned out at work.

Karen PearlKaren Pearl has been named interim vice president for communications at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She served as the director of university media relations. Pearl earned a master’s from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a juris doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Dr. Dara N. ByrnePHOTO COURTESY OF CUNYBecoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. “Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the

Of all the things that shaped the career of longtime theater director Sheldon Epps, few rank as high as the time he spent as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University. It was on the campus of the Pittsburgh-based school from 1969 to 1973 that Epps met three of the four actors with whom he would

The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc. has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. The program is funded through a grant provided to the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation by the Center for Advocacy and Philanthropy at

At least nine of 18 major-party candidates for governor in the U.S. South are in support of restricting classroom lessons about race and other topics in K-12 public schools, according to the Southern Education Foundation (SEF).Raymond C. Pierce “If we ban classroom lessons on these topics, especially with little or no evidence for doing so,

A recent report has found that certain degrees at Tennessee’s public colleges and universities are leaving students with higher debt than what they make annually, Main Street Nashville reported. The Beacon Center of Tennessee reviewed data for graduates of 320 different undergraduate programs in the state. “This data allows us to objectively analyze programs and

The burden of student loan debt limits future finances of graduates of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). As such, college education is not fulfilling the promise of being a great equalizer and closing wealth gaps, according to a recent report.Christelle Bamona HBCU graduates have an average debt of $32,373 after graduation, which is 19%