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News Briefs

WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.

July 14, 2007

Virginia’s experience – Virginia’s Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s push for accessible education for Black students

Despite what some viewed as the `ideal’ Black leadership team, education gains were limited during Wilder administration

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities

SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’

July 14, 2007

Giant steps on the road to renewal – Central State University

Central State University has accreditation renewed and is released from U.S. Department of Education penalty

July 13, 2007

Loan debt: a new view

Student loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.

July 12, 2007

The pied piper of college golf – National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Assn. founder and Pres. Bill Dickey

Bill Dicky More Than Just a Fairway Friend to College-Bound Youth

July 11, 2007

Native Americans

Learning to live a warrior’s life: institute seeks to improve Native American education – National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Native American students often struggle academically at colleges and universities nationwide because the institutions are virtually foreign environments. As a result, says Pam Agoyo, director of the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education, half of the first-year Native American students who start college leave by the end of their first year.

July 11, 2007

Through the eyes of a student – account of a student who attended a college fair

Editorial note: An institution’s purpose for attending a college fair is to attract high school students to their campuses. Black Issues thought it would be interesting to hear from a student who attended. The following is his report.

July 11, 2007

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

Controversial plan may cut student loan costs – student loan provision

Low- and middle-income college students could get a break on their student loans next year — if Congress can defy the wishes of private lenders.

July 11, 2007

Home shopping network: CD-ROMs facilitate college search process

With a seventeen-year-old high school junior for a son, the time has come once again to go college shopping. And as one of those guys who hates to shop, I naturally was looking for something that would allow me to visit a university or two hundred without leaving home. After all, travel expenses can be…well, expensive.

July 11, 2007

Robbing Peter to pay Paul – reauthorizing the higher education act

Reauthorizing the higher education act amid the new political reality means some programs may lose so that others might gain.

July 11, 2007

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