Apologies for ‘racist’ cartoon
A “racist” cartoon in the student newspaper has sparked controversy at Solano Community College in California. The four-strip panel, drawn by a black male student, showed black women complaining about black men’s irresponsibility and concluding: “(We) need to get rid of them ALL!! A toast ladies — Black men need to just GO AWAY.” Student [...]
The thrill of goat tying
Brooke Smith, a rodeo star at Garden City Community College in Kansas, shows the thrill of goat tying as part of the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s Say Something series.
Bucking the odds
A ranch management student at Garden City Community College in Kansas, Brady Nichols is a bareback bronco rider on the college’s rodeo team. The team competes against two- and four-year institutions in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
‘Tiger’ kids in community college
Chinese mothers are superior because they push their children relentlessly to earn straight A’s (except in P.E. and drama) and excel in music, writes Amy Chua, a Yale law professor, in the Wall Street Journal. Chua is promoting a new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. When tiger mothers’ children don’t get straight A’s [...]
Testifying for Cedirick
Three years after one of his Bunker Hill Community College writing students was murdered, Wick Sloane agreed to testify in the retrial of his alleged killers. The prosecutor wanted the judge and jurors to see 18-year-old Cedirick Steele as a student, a person, not just a statistic, Sloane writes in Inside Higher Ed. At the [...]
From foster care to college
Children who grow up in foster care often drop out of high school; few earn a college degree. In the Los Angeles area, five school districts are trying to support the academic success of foster children, reports Education Week. The Education Pilot Program, which includes tutors and mentors, won a high rating in the federal [...]
Higher ed or higher heels?
Britain is buzzing about a six-week vocational class for 16-year-olds offered at South Thames College in south London: How To Walk in High Heels is drawing critics who says it’s a waste of money, the Daily Mail reports. Instructor Chyna Whyne said the class will prepare young women “for the business world and their social [...]
Etiquette lessons
In an attempt to teach courtesy, Onondaga Community College in Syracuse is launching the “Create Change” campaign, reports Daniel Luzer on Washington Monthly’s College Guide. It’s not exactly salad forks and finger bowels, however. The Onondaga campaign appears to target only smoking in prohibited places, spitting, littering, and double parking. A student-produced video, explains the [...]
Can college ban cursing?
Kicked out of class and given 12 demerits for saying in a discussion after class that a bad grade would “f— up” his GPA, 29-year-old Isaac Rosenbloom argues Hinds Community College in Mississippi has no right to punish disrespect or cursing. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) Vice President Robert Shibley calls the policy unconstitutional [...]
The ‘free speech patio’
Setting aside a patio for free speech is not enough, argues FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), which is going after Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California. On October 22, 2009, a group of students and faculty members assembled in SWC’s free speech zone to protest various actions taken by the SWC administration. According [...]
