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Education Design Lab Names Twelve Leaders in Reimagining the Role of Higher Education to Close Racial and Economic Opportunity Gaps
Announcing the Education Design Lab s Designers in Residence, a diverse cohort of higher education leaders co-creating the future role of colleges in their communities
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WASHINGTON, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ National nonprofit Education Design Lab today announced the selection of 12 higher education leaders to join the Lab s Designers in Residence program. Spanning a diverse cross-section of communities, institutional positionality, and lived experience and expertise, the Designers in Residence will lean on their collective expertise and work as a design team to co-create a roadmap for colleges to serve as regional change agents leading efforts to close economic and racial opportunity gaps.
President Biden proposes plan to make community college free for all Americans
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Updated on:Apr 28, 2021, 5:28pm EDT
President Joe Biden addressed Congress for the first time on Wednesday, and proposed a plan to make community college free for all Americans.
It s all part of the president s $2 trillion spending plan focusing on boosting the country s economy.
The proposal includes $100 billion to make two years of community college free for first-time students, workers who want to learn a new skill and undocumented immigrants born in the United States.
There will also be $85 million for Pell Grants, so students don t need to rely on loans so heavily.
U.S. Congressman Mondaire Jones (D) , joined by several elected officials from Rockland, on Friday, April 1, welcomed the New York State Department of Health’s new Covid-19 Vaccination Center at The Eugene Levy Fieldhouse at Rockland Community College.
Rockland was and remains one of the worst hotspots of the coronavirus pandemic, but the last to receive a NYS DOH facility open for residents in the mid-Hudson.
“This is no April Fool’s joke,” said County Executive Ed Day, as he thanked his colleagues for helping to get the sit opened for residents who’ve had to travel outside the county to get a vaccination.
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On Friday, SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras traveled to Suffern to meet with Rockland Community College President Michael Baston. It’s one of the SUNY colleges that recently expanded its weekly COVID-19 pooled surveillance testing program as the 64-campus system proceeds through a fall semester marked by local coronavirus spikes and shutdowns. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s color-coded COVID zones have raised new questions about transmission for college towns and commuting students.
Just before arriving on campus, Malatras spoke with WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne about pooled testing, the abrupt leadership change at SUNY Oneonta, and plans for the Spring 2021 semester.