CHEA Board Member Dr. Anthony Munroe Named to the Higher Education Power 100
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CHEA Board Member and Borough of Manhattan Community College President Dr. Anthony Munroe Named to 2023 Higher Education Power 100 (CityandStateNY.com, March 13, 2023) Not long after Anthony E. Munroe came on as president of the Borough of Manhattan Community College in 2020, the school received a $30 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, the largest in its history. Munroe has focused on boosting enrollment and addressing gaps in socioeconomic mobility, career development and sustainable pedagogy as the school carries out its mission of preparing students to enter the workforce.
“It is an honor to have been included among my esteemed colleagues and academic leaders in the 2023 Higher Education Power 100 list in City & State New York, to be able to meet our students where they are and to work with them to become the health professionals, IT and Cybersecurity experts, teachers, lawyers, doctors, and technicians that are needed to drive the community-based economic engine of New York, said CHEA Board member and Borough of Manhattan Community College President Dr. Anthony Munroe.”
Texas Republicans Want to Reform Higher Ed. What Are Their Plans? (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2023) Among an avalanche of bills filed in the Texas Legislature last Friday were at least half a dozen proposals that would affect public colleges — a sign of Republican politicians’ keen interest in reforming higher ed this year.
Accreditors in Firing Line as US Political Temperature Rises (Times Higher Education, March 10, 2023) Agencies created to help institutions improve themselves, then asked to guard federal student aid, now face fight over battling partisan attacks on academia, “It’s a national issue, and it’s changing the entire face of higher education,” said Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, one of the major regional accrediting agencies spread across the US.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Foxx? (Inside Higher Ed, March 9, 2023) Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee.
What to Know About the New Rules on Pell Grants for Prison Education (Chronicle of Education, March 6, 2023) The U.S. Department of Education released final regulations that spell out how colleges can lay the groundwork for enrolling some of the more than 700,000 incarcerated people who are expected to become eligible next summer to apply for Pell Grants to pay for college. Colleges will also need their own accrediting bodies to sign off on the first program at the first two correctional facilities with which they are working. Accreditors will visit the sites and thoroughly review the programs to ensure that meet the same standards as “substantially similar programs” colleges offer outside of prison.