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Clark Atlanta Ends Plans to Tear Down Historic Landmark

Clark Atlanta Ends Plans to Tear Down Historic LandmarkATLANTA Clark Atlanta University officials say they have decided to sell a landmark restaurant that was a popular meeting place for Black leaders during the civil rights era. Officials said last month they will sell Paschal’s restaurant and motor lodge rather than tear the structure down to […]

March 24, 2004

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Scholar of Note: Political Science

Political ScienceExploring The Politics Of ReformDesiree PedescleauxTitle: Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Spelman CollegeEducation: Ph.D., M.A., Political Science, Yale University; B.A., Political Science, Southern University, Baton Rouge, La.Age: 42Dr. Desiree Pedescleaux always thought she would be a lawyer. In fact, everyone else did too.  Then one day one […]

January 14, 2004

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Scholars of Note: English

EnglishIlluminating The DiasporaBrent Hayes EdwardsTitle: Associate Professor of English, Department of English, Rutgers University, New BrunswickEducation: Ph.D., M.A., Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; B.A., Literature, Yale University Age: 35Following his college graduation, Brent Hayes Edwards left the United States for Paris — armed with a condensed library of African American and Francophone […]

January 14, 2004

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Education Spending Tops Congress’ Fall Agenda

Education Spending Tops Congress’ Fall AgendaTeacher education, welfare reform are among other hot-button issues to be addressed By Charles Dervarics After months of disappointing efforts in seeking student-aid increases, education advocates are pinning their hopes on a U.S. Senate plan that will come up for debate in September.A coalition of senators, mostly Democrats, is seeking […]

September 10, 2003

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Poll Finds Hardening of Positions, Less Support for Vouchers

Poll Finds Hardening of Positions, Less Support for VouchersFirst-time polling of Hispanics finds greater optimism about public schools and interest in non-public schoolingBy Ben Hammer WASHINGTON Black, Hispanic and White support has hardened in an unfavorable way to publicly funded vouchers for private school, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found in a […]

June 4, 2003

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Leaders Lash Out at ‘Price Control’ Legislation

Leaders Lash Out at ‘Price Control’ LegislationBy Charles Dervarics Higher education leaders are waging a pre-emptive strike against new legislation they fear could impose government price controls on colleges. At issue is a proposal from Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ postsecondary education subcommittee, which would issue sanctions against […]

March 26, 2003

HBCUs

MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Comes to North Carolina Central University

MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’ Comes to North Carolina Central University HBCU serves as backdrop, as presidential contender faces tough questions DURHAM, N.C.North Carolina Central University basked in the national limelight earlier this month when political talk show host Chris Matthews brought his MSNBC’s “Hardball College Tour” to the campus. The live broadcast featured fast-talking Matthews’ tough questions […]

February 26, 2003

HBCUs

New Education Department Office To Support Innovation

New Education Department Office To Support InnovationBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. Department of Education is creating an Office of Innovation to become the “entrepreneurial” arm of the agency, promoting new ideas and strategies. Nina Rees, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, will be deputy secretary in charge of the Office of Innovation and Improvement. […]

January 15, 2003

HBCUs

Budget, Grant Issues Still in Limbo

Budget, Grant Issues Still in LimboBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. Congress adjourned for the year without debating critical budget and student aid issues originally scheduled for approval in October. Pell Grants, college work-study, TRIO programs and aid to HBCUs will continue to receive only temporary funding for fiscal 2003, which began in October, due to […]

December 18, 2002

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The Politics of Remembering September 11

The Politics of Remembering September 11The National Education Association represents 2.7 million educators of diverse perspectives. For all the diversity in ideology, the organization brings people together around education issues, and was doing its job when it constructed the “Remember September 11” Web site , a site with links to a number of Web resources […]

September 25, 2002

Leadership & Policy

State Leaders Convene to Address College Alcohol Problems

State Leaders Convene to Address College Alcohol ProblemsDENVERRepresentatives from 39 states gathered in Denver last month for the fourth annual Statewide Initiatives Leadership Institute, a four-day event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention to address how comprehensive regional efforts can curb college student underage and […]

July 17, 2002

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The State of the African American Professoriate

The State of the African American ProfessoriateCornel West says Black intellectuals have unique role to play in the academy     Mahwah, N.J.When Dr. Cornel West stepped up to the microphone recently at Ramapo College of New Jersey in his trademark three-piece black suit, the excitement in the air was electric. West had announced just six days […]

May 22, 2002