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JASON BRYAN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jason Bryan Jason Bryan has been appointed interim chief information officer for LaGuardia Community College in New York.

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VERRICK FOUST

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Verrick Foust Verrick Foust has been named Esports coach at Northeast Iowa Community College. He served as the information security officer at the community college. Foust holds an associate degree in computer systems networking and telecommunications from Northeast Iowa.

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A $150M Gift Allows Dartmouth to Expand Financial Aid

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Dartmouth College is boosting financial aid significantly for middle-income students, thanks to a $150 million donation—the largest scholarship gift in the college’s history.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, at a pharmaceutical company, they’ll learn about chemistry, and at a telecommunications company, they’ll hear about technology. It’s six to eight sessions spread out over the academic year in which topics like navigating college and getting an internship are explored.

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Princeton Seminarians Call For Trustee’s Removal

Confessions of a Community College Dean

More than 300 Princeton Theological Seminary students and alumni signed a letter to the institution’s president asking that a Board of Trustees member be removed for his ties to a prison telecommunications company.

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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That’s why Mossberger and other experts want to see universities and colleges coordinate with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to disperse the roughly $48 billion allotted toward programs that create greater digital equity. You train the workforce,” said Bennett.

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Intellectual Provocations or Reckless, Irresponsible Acts of Arson?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

That book argued that Britain’s Age of Empire was the midwife of modernity, spreading “capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government.” Niall Ferguson, who wrote one of the book’s blurbs, advanced somewhat similar claims in his 2008 bestseller Empire.