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Beyond Black & White: Transforming African American Politics. – book reviews

In the twenty-nine years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of conservatism as the dominant force in national politics, many scholars and intellectuals have struggled mightily to explain “what has happened” to Black people. As the millennium approaches, academia, and we as a society, have been confronted with the issue of racism and have sought to re-examine those public policies which have directly impacted the quality of the Black American experience.

Tennessee college becomes battleground of words and wits: nineteen Shelby State nursing students dropped from program stir controversy – Shelby State Community College

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Higher education officials are locked in an unusual battle of words and wills with several state legislators here – all over a dispute about failed nursing students.

Faithful to its mission: Donnelly College provides second chances to inner-city students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. Donnelly College is blessed with a gift. Despite repeated monetary incentives to move from its poor, inner-city environment, it has remained in a single nine-story brick building – an old hospital gutted and rebuilt into a place of learning.

Coming to grips with the problems of race – interview with Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education co-chair Thomas Kean – Interview

In addition to serving as a co-chair of the Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE), Thomas Kean, president of Drew University and former governor of New Jersey, was recently appointed to the president’s newly formed advisory commission on race. Following the CNIHE press conference, Gov. Kean discussed the report and the advisory commission with Black Issues In Higher Education:

The meaning of the numbers – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority college graduates

The analysis of degrees conferred to students of color in the United States continues this year with the simple objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.

Set up to fail? New restrictions on Central State University considered “punitive” by supporters

Central State University supporters fear that a compromise plan to rescue the school could end up killing it instead.

Scholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternities

When twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.

Pledging a brother, not intaking a “paper brother.”

The following story allegedly took place on a public historically Black college campus in Maryland last year. Because the tradition of pledging has been officially replaced by the National Pan-Hellenic Council with a “Membership Intake Process,” all forms of hazing have prohibited. The author signed a document promising not to be involved in any pledging activities. To avoid sanctions, he asked that his name not be given. The author is currently working on a master’s degree. Although the name Gamma Delta is used, it is not the real of the fraternity chapter involved.

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

Georgia study cites hope for student retention, better grades: model for national plan appears successful

ATLANTA In Georgia, borderline college students who depend on Hope scholarships to pay their tuition and fees are more likely to remain in school take snore courses and earn better grades, according to a new study by the Council for School Performance, an independent think tank.

Chicano generation gap: method of activism by scholars at center of NACCS schism – includes related article on Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan

Sacramento Protesting California’s anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 and the general anti-Latino and anti-immigrant mood of the state and the country, the twenty-fourth annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference kicked off with a rally here late last month at the base of the state capitol.

Education’s technological revolution hits Europe: curricula improvements wanted, cost increases not wanted

Paris Philippe Jollant, fed up with yet another boring lecture, stood up in his poetry class at the Sorbonne, swung his brown cloth bag over his shoulder and stalked out to a sunny cafe in this city’s Latin Quarter.

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