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HBCUs

The Top 100: Interpreting the Data

The Top 100: Interpreting the DataBy Dr. Victor M. H. BordenWith each passing year, more than 200,000 people of color, including more than 100,000 African Americans, attain a bachelor’s degree in higher education. Add to that tens of thousands who earn post-baccalaureate degrees and you can start to appreciate the increasing intellectual capital among people […]

June 19, 2002

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This Year’s Top 100 Offers Two for One

This Year’s Top 100 Offers Two for OneIt has been 11 years, but who’s counting! It is that time of year again — when we publish the rankings of the top 100 institutions that graduate the most students of color.We did things a little differently this year. We combined both the undergraduate and graduate/professional degree […]

June 19, 2002

Sports

Getting Paid, but Paying The Price

Getting Paid, but Paying The Price Playing guarantee games can be a bittersweet experience for Black college teams competing in NCAA Division I men’s basketball.These games are a godsend to smaller Division I schools looking for an avenue to fatten their athletic budgets. College basketball titans such as North Carolina, Stanford and a growing number […]

February 28, 2001

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Spelman, Morehouse Ranked Among Top Colleges for Black Students

Spelman, Morehouse Ranked Among Top Colleges for Black StudentsNew YorkMorehouse and Spelman colleges were ranked the No. 1 and 2 colleges respectively for Black students by Black Enterprise magazine. The magazine’s rankings were based on a survey of academic programs and social atmosphere. A panel of 409 Black professionals in higher education surveyed 482 schools.In addition […]

January 31, 2001

Recruitment & Retention

FAMU Ties Harvard in Recruitment of National Achievement Scholars

FAMU Ties Harvard in Recruitment of National Achievement Scholars\TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida A&M University has tied with Harvard University as the No. 1 recruiter of National Achievement Scholars, the nation’s top African American high school students, for 2000.“This ranking marks another milestone in the University’s effort to maintain FAMU’s status as one of the nation’s premier […]

January 31, 2001

Community Colleges

Transfer Rankings Embarrass Two-Year Colleges On California List

Transfer Rankings Embarrass Two-Year Colleges On California ListLOS ANGELES California’s community college system targeted 14 of 107 two-year colleges for having the worst record for transferring students to state universities. More than half of them are in the Los Angeles area. The California Community Colleges list angered many of the schools whose administrators see it […]

December 20, 2000

Community Colleges

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University status

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University statusCHARLESTON, W.Va. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants historically Black West Virginia State College to become a university, which a leading legislator says is part of a logical next step to improving higher education. “There is lots of […]

September 13, 2000

HBCUs

The Top 100: Interpreting the Data

The Top 100: Interpreting the DataFor the ninth consecutive year, we present to you one of the simplest and most compelling rankings of higher education data: listings of the institutions that confer the most postsecondary degrees to students of color. As with any ranking publication, we have our critics, many of whom bring up valid […]

July 5, 2000

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Yahoo! They Made It

Yahoo! They Made It For first time in years, two Black colleges named ‘most wired’HAMPTON, Va. — As the only historically Black institutions to make the Yahoo! Internet Life “Most Wired Colleges” year 2000 list, officials at Hampton University here and Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn., say the recognition helps bring attention to the progress […]

May 24, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

March 1, 2000

HBCUs

Top of the Top 100

Top of the Top 100In 1992, Black Issues produced the first annual Top 100 ranking of colleges and universities. The ranking is based on each institution’s degree production performance among people of color in various degree categories. Over the years, the special reports featuring these rankings have become among our top selling editions. For the […]

August 18, 1999

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Competition Is Always About Results

Competition Is Always About Results A few months ago, I had the privilege of speaking to a group of graduate and professional school administrators on the subject of diversity. During my remarks, I cited several statistics regarding enrollment and graduation trends of African American undergraduates. Many of the statistics I cited in my presentation came […]

July 7, 1999