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Faculty & Staff

Diverse City

Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]

September 24, 2003

Leadership & Policy

NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing Institute

NCCU Lands $19 Million for Biomanufacturing InstituteDURHAM, N.C.North Carolina Central University and the state’s biomanufacturing industry received a $19.1 million boost last month from a nonprofit corporation created as a result of the state’s tobacco litigation. The Golden LEAF Foundation, created in 1999 by court order, agreed to award the university the money to construct […]

September 24, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Keeping a Legacy Alive

Keeping a Legacy AliveRonald Roach’s article, “A Rich, but Disappearing Legacy” (see Black Issues, Aug. 14),brought much needed attention to the historical significance of Black boarding schools. Gilbert Academy, which was located here in New Orleans, appeared on a partial listing of closed historically Black boarding schools.The academy was named after William L. Gilbert, a […]

September 24, 2003

Students

Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama

Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala.A Black student at the University of Alabama accepted a bid to a traditionally White sorority last month, a rare case in which the longstanding racial exclusivity of the campus Greek social system has been broken.Carla Ferguson, a freshman from Tuscaloosa, was the […]

September 10, 2003

Leadership & Policy

The Price of Education

The Price of EducationBy Julianne Malveaux I can’t explain my eclectic reading habits, or my innate curiosity about all kinds of things. The combination of the two explains, perhaps, why I snatched Andrew Ward’s book about the Fisk Jubilee Singers off a sale table at a small bookstore, and devoured it on a cross-country flight […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

New Web Site to Focus on the Business of Higher Education

New Web Site to Focus on the Business of Higher EducationBy Ronald Roach NEW YORKLearningTimes LLC, a provider of online conference communities for education, and the Campus Computing Project, the largest ongoing study of information technology in American higher education, have announced the launch of MarketTimes, a Web-based information service focused on the postsecondary education […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Serving Urban Populations … A Continent Away

Serving Urban Populations … A Continent Away Bronx Community College works to expand educational, employment opportunities for Black South AfricansBy Ben HammerBronx Community College President Carolyn Williams has prepared most of her professional career for what she calls a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” — developing a junior college system in post-apartheid South Africa that mirrors what exists […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

An Overlooked Oasis?

An Overlooked Oasis? Education advocates say two-year institutions should not be considered an afterthought, but rather belong at the centerpiece of the nation’s higher education agendaBy Kendra HamiltonWhile the decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court in June regarding the University of Michigan’s admissions policies is being rightly hailed by defenders of affirmative action and […]

August 27, 2003

Students

NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows

NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows SILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) has selected 13 outstanding faculty, from historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities, for its first class of Kellogg Leadership Fellows in the NAFEO National Leadership Institute. The institute is designed to train and develop the […]

August 27, 2003

Students

From Opening Doors to Opening Minds

From Opening Doors to Opening MindsBy Dr. George L. Daniels It was 40 years ago this past June that the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium trying to prevent the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. His defiant stance against integration won him […]

August 13, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Unofficial Civil Rights Movement Headquarters To be Razed to Make Way for Dorm

Unofficial Civil Rights Movement Headquarters To be Razed to Make Way for DormATLANTA The restaurant that served as unofficial headquarters of the civil rights movement in the 1960s will be demolished to make way for a college dormitory, officials said. The decision to raze Paschal’s restaurant was based on finances, said its owner, Clark Atlanta […]

August 13, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Moving Morrison Beyond the Literary Classroom

Moving Morrison Beyond the Literary ClassroomToni Morrison Society celebrates 10 years, encourages readers of all ages to know the authorBy Robin V. SmilesMention one of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s seven critically acclaimed novels to a friend and you will most likely be met with a familiar protest: “Beloved? I just couldn’t get through it”; “Paradise? […]

July 30, 2003