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Affirmative Action’s Lost Luster

Affirmative Action’s  Lost LusterWhat’s different about affirmative action this year? Despite some major decisions recently made and some others that are coming up, the issue hasn’t been high on the political radar screen. The last decade saw affirmative action policies in higher education undergo serious retrenchment and heavy political attack from opponents. In 1996, conservative political […]

September 13, 2000

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Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Elaine Johnson Copeland is the new dean and vice president of academic affairs at Livingston College in Salisbury, N.C.  Copeland earned a bachelor’s from Livingstone College, a master’s in education from Winthrop University and an additional master’s in business administration from the University of Illinois. She earned a doctorate in counseling and guidance […]

August 30, 2000

African-American

N.Y. Judge Dismisses Students’ Discrimination Suit

N.Y. Judge Dismisses Students’ Discrimination Suit SYRACUSE, N.Y.A federal appeals court has dismissed discrimination charges in a lawsuit brought by 32 Black students at the State University of New York at Oneonta, who alleged that state police singled them out as suspects in an attempted rape investigation because of their race. The 2nd U.S. Circuit […]

August 30, 2000

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Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community College

Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community CollegeA Portland Community College student here has filed a reverse-discrimination complaint alleging she is being denied free tuition because she is White. Adrienne Williams, 29, claims a teacher development program violates the college’s nondiscrimination policies because it is open only to minorities. She sent her complaint to the […]

August 16, 2000

Faculty & Staff

TECH briefs

TECH briefsMorris Brown College To Require Laptop Computers This FallATLANTA — Morris Brown College will require its students to buy laptop computers this fall, offering them at discount prices as part of school financial aid.School officials say they believe Morris Brown is the first historically Black college in the nation to make laptops available for […]

August 2, 2000

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Federal Judge Halts $3.5 Million Appropriation to Miss. Colleges

Federal Judge Halts $3.5 Million Appropriation to Miss. CollegesOfficials say action against Black schools shows need to settle desegregation suitJACKSON, Miss. — More than $3.5 million allocated for Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State universities related to the state’s college desegregation case has been disapproved by a federal judge. As he had warned the College […]

August 2, 2000

Students

More Doctorates in the House

More Doctorates in the HouseExperts explain what’s working  in postgraduate programs at HBCUs and TWIsWASHINGTON — The upward trend for African American postgraduate degree attainment remains constant. From 1992-93 through 1997-98, African American master’s degree attainment rose 8.6 percent overall and 9.7 percent at historically Black colleges and universities. Degree attainment for African Americans at […]

July 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Famous Last Words

Famous Last WordsAfrican Americans are being sought out to deliver commencement speechesIn 1961, he fled the country. He had accused the U.S. military of discontinuing his academic deferment after officials learned that he was African American. When he refused to report for a physical exam and induction into the army, he was tried, convicted and […]

June 21, 2000

HBCUs

Retilling The Field

Retilling The FieldHistorically Black land-grant institutions are growing agricultural programs despite a difficult climate.“As my mother used to say: ‘There’s more than one way to get in a house other than going in the front door.’” That piece of wisdom is offered by Dr. James H. Walker Jr., the senior associate research director of the […]

June 7, 2000

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War Criminals And Desegregation

War Criminals And DesegregationMay 17 was the 47th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court finding in Brown vs. Board of Education. That finding was, of course, more than a simple court ruling. It was a finding that the court said should be implemented “with all deliberate speed,” as if words like deliberate and speed should […]

June 7, 2000

HBCUs

Eliminating the Last Vestiges of Segregation

Eliminating the Last Vestiges of SegregationI was recently asked to speak at the annual President’s Leadership Summit of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and provide the group with an update of federal higher education desegregation activity. The question-and-answer period that followed my presentation impressed upon me the need for broader clarification regarding federal policy on […]

June 7, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

Morgan State Blocks Competing Doctoral ProgramsBALTIMORE  —  New doctoral programs at Baltimore-area public universities have been put on hold at the urging of Morgan State University officials, prompting critics to claim the school is using its historically Black status to block competition from other schools. The first doctoral programs at Towson University and the University […]

May 24, 2000