Tag: Minorities on Campus: Page 87

Community Colleges

Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.

July 14, 2007

Home

Northwest passage? The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in national struggle over affirmative action

The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in the national struggle over affirmative action

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College

Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College

July 13, 2007

Students

Besieged, bothered, and bewildered: affirmative action director charges Pitt-Johnstown president with discrimination, harassment and retaliation – University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. According to the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown’s affirmative action director, the institution’s president told her that he did not believe in affirmative action and would do everything possible to avoid implementing its principles.

July 13, 2007

HBCUs

Charting journalism degrees

The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.

July 13, 2007

Community Colleges

Proprietary preference – for-profit colleges

One of the surprises emerging from Black Issues’s analysis of the top one hundred institutions conferring degrees on people of color was in the rise of proprietary colleges as major players — particularly in the fields of engineering-related technologies, computer science, and business.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities

More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.

July 12, 2007

Students

Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn

AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.

July 12, 2007

Sports

Clinton’s race initiative on tour: sports was focus of the latest national town hall meeting – includes related article on higher education

Sports provided the focus of President Bill Clinton’s second town hall meeting on race relations in America. Clinton and leading collegiate and professional sports figures participated in a lively meeting and discussion, which was held at the University of Houston on April 14, 1998. The televised forum was entitled, “Race & Sports; Running in Place?”

July 12, 2007

African-American

In defense of diversity: videoconference examines the anti-affirmative action movement

I find it interesting that it wasn’t until the issue of race was introduced in the admission process that [preferences] became ax issue. It’s not until you talk about race that we’re seeing these kinds of legal challenges.”

July 12, 2007

African-American

Bad news in Berkeley: 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions

July 12, 2007

Students

Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way

By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson’s initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult.

July 12, 2007