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Keeping an Eye on College Access

Keeping an Eye on College Access Bridget Terry LongTitle: Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass.Education: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University; M.A., Economics, Harvard University; A.B, Economics, Certificate in Afro-American Studies, Princeton University Age: 29Not many 29-year-olds get invited to the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute. The scholars associated with that august institution […]

January 1, 2003

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Early Success, Encouragement Add Up to Math Ph.D.s

Early Success, Encouragement Add Up to Math Ph.D.sHoward University female math doctorates achieve personal, university milestoneBy Gabrielle Finley      WASHINGTONMathematics has traditionally been a field of study reserved “for men only,” but two Washington-area schools are shattering the gender stereotypes that have kept the field a male preserve for so many years. In 2000, three African […]

August 28, 2002

African-American

A Passion for Cuba

A Passion for CubaUniversity of Connecticut music professor explores African roots in the island nation      Dr. Robert Stephens, professor of music at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and interim director of the school’s Institute for African American Studies, says he has always had a passion for Cuba. That passion — indulged to the fullest in his […]

August 14, 2002

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More Seek Graduate School To Wait Out Job Market

More Seek Graduate School To Wait Out Job MarketPHILADELPHIABrett Tishler still has his senior year at Temple University ahead of him, but he’s fairly sure what his future holds — more school. “With the way the economy is … there’s really nothing I can do right now except go to graduate school and hope that […]

August 14, 2002

HBCUs

A Renewed Spirit

A Renewed SpiritAs NAFEO’s new president, Dr. Frederick Humphries vows to make the organization the ‘lead voice’ for all historically black colleges and universities.  By Cheryl D. FieldsSILVER SPRING, Md.So far, the outward signs of change at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) are modest: a newly redesigned Web site, increased […]

July 31, 2002

HBCUs

Changing the Color of Wealth

Changing the Color of WealthNot long ago, a young woman, who was a senior at the Howard University business school, asked me what she should do about a $40,000 retirement plan she had accumulated while working for the federal government. She was planning to go to graduate school in Georgia, and wanted to know what […]

July 3, 2002

Latinx

Barnard Study Links Gender, Academic Success Among Mexican Americans

Barnard Study Links Gender, Academic Success Among Mexican Americans  NEW YORKBarnard sociology professor Dr. Robert Smith’s research shows that Mexican American females are more selective when it comes to education than their male counterparts. Interestingly, Smith’s research connects the role of gender and how it leads to academic promise or academic failure.“One of the most […]

June 5, 2002

Women

Recession, Affirmative Action, Trickery: Reflections on a Bush Appointment

Recession, Affirmative Action, Trickery:  Reflections on a Bush AppointmentFederal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan says the recession is abating, but you wouldn’t know it by the unemployment rate statistics. With the unemployment rate at 5.7 percent overall, and 10.1 percent for African Americans, many Americans are alarmed about their job prospects. With companies like WorldCom […]

April 24, 2002

Students

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?The academy seems to think so.The University of California-Berkeley has just released a set of statistics that should give pause to every female academic of child-bearing age.Women who have children early in their careers — that is, between one and five years after receiving a doctorate — are […]

March 27, 2002

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Letters

Dear Editor:I truly enjoyed reading about the “New Cast” in the academic arena (see Black Issues, Jan. 3). As an African American female, it was extremely challenging to earn my Ph.D. in chemistry from a majority school. I was one of 44 African Americans to earn a doctorate in chemistry in the year 2000. According […]

January 30, 2002

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Litigating Land Loss

Litigating Land LossWhen Thomas Mitchell told his friends he was leaving Covington & Burling, one of Washington, D.C.’s most prestigious corporate law firms, to return to graduate school in Wisconsin where he planned to study issues of land tenure and land loss among poor rural African American communities, “they thought I had lost my mind,” […]

January 2, 2002

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A Model Project

A Model ProjectFocused on steering minorities toward business doctorates, the PhD Project serves as a successful model for other minority student doctoral initiatives.By Ronald Roach For many who are earning a master’s in business administration (MBA), attaining the coveted degree virtually guarantees them a ticket to a lucrative career path in corporate America. However, when […]

November 21, 2001