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African-American

Testing Your Diversity Knowledge

Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative Action  Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from […]

November 10, 1999

African-American

BI News Briefs

Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student UnionJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Black students at the University of North Florida rallied for the preservation of the African American Student Union after a student government agency decided the organization was unconstitutional.The decision last month to dissolve the African American Student Union was made by a […]

November 10, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Tales From the Boondocks

Tales From the BoondocksRecruiting Black Faculty to Small Town, U.S.A., Can Be A Challenge. But Increasingly, It Is One That Colleges Are Taking on and ConqueringWhen Dr. Mordean Taylor-Archer first arrived in Manhattan, she went to the local cable provider and asked that Black Entertainment Television be added to the basic cable offerings. Taylor-Archer was […]

October 27, 1999

Students

Grooming the 21st Century Professoriate

Grooming the 21st Century Professoriate Despite Challenges Posed by Anti-Affirmative Action Initiatives, the Ph.D. Pipeline Continues to Deliver a Diverse and Much Needed Group of Young ProfessorsCLAREMONT, Calif. — With just one Black professor, five Latino professors and five Asian American professors on its roster of 75 full-time faculty members, the Claremont Graduate University here recognized […]

October 27, 1999

Students

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:As a dean, how do I get my faculty and the academic vice provost/provost to buy into our diversity agenda?Dr. James AndersonVice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate StudiesNorth Carolina State UniversityTo promote any campus initiative, successful deans understand what the faculty value, how academic business gets done and how to facilitate the […]

October 13, 1999

Students

High-Tech Admissions

High-Tech AdmissionsPredictive Modeling Software is Reshaping the Way Schools Find and Communicate With Prospective StudentsWhen Tuskegee University officials set a goal of growing enrollment from the current 3,000 students to 5,000 by the year 2006, they knew it would require an extraordinary approach. Especially given the fierce national competition for college-bound African American high school […]

October 13, 1999

Home

Same Team, Different Strategy

Same Team, Different StrategyThe Lawsuit Challenging Michigan’s Affirmative Action Policies has Produced a Wide Spectrum of Supporters Who are Prepared to Defend the University’s Pursuit of DiversityANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan prides itself on its commitment to maintaining a racially diverse campus. Indeed, here at the nation’s 10th-largest university, nearly one in […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Raising the Bar for Middle-Class Blacks

Raising the Bar for Middle-Class BlacksNext month, Jenna Bond-Louden will board a plane for North Carolina where she and other college seniors will spend all day learning to write a college essay that will wow admissions officers. Her parents have already shelled out hundreds of dollars for the Baltimore senior to take SAT prep classes.There […]

October 13, 1999

HBCUs

The State of Retention

The State of Retention AUSTIN, Texas — In the academic world, where importance in the institutional pecking order often can be measured by how much money officials are willing to spend on a certain program, rarely a peep is heard these days about retention.College and university administrators traditionally have preferred to spend their money on […]

October 13, 1999

Students

Idaho Official: State’s Image Hampers Recruitment

Idaho Official: State’s Image Hampers RecruitmentMOSCOW, Idaho — A top University of Idaho official says that the state’s national image as a haven for racists, though unwarranted, has made it much more difficult for the university to recruit Black students.“The farther away from the university, the image of Idaho can be important for the multicultural […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio — The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. […]

September 29, 1999

Students

NAACP Calls for Bluefield State Investigation

NAACP Calls for Bluefield State InvestigationHUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia should investigate employment practices at Bluefield State College because of the school’s lack of minority faculty and staff, according to a resolution approved by state NAACP members last month. The resolution was one of several approved during the final day of the National Association for […]

September 1, 1999