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Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement

Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement CLEMSON, S.C.As academicians anxiously await the outcome of the University of Michigan case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and what will be a precedent setting decision for higher education admissions procedures, more than 200 academic professionals, admissions officers and diversity advocates from around the nation gathered […]

February 26, 2003

Students

Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement

Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement CLEMSON, S.C.As academicians anxiously await the outcome of the University of Michigan case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and what will be a precedent setting decision for higher education admissions procedures, more than 200 academic professionals, admissions officers and diversity advocates from around the nation gathered […]

February 26, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Publisher Gives $4 Million to Howard; Communications School to Get New Name

Publisher Gives $4 Million to Howard; Communications School to Get New Name WASHINGTONHoward University’s School of Communications soon will have a new name thanks to a $4 million contribution from John H. Johnson, publisher and chairman of Johnson Publishing Company, the publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. In recognition of Johnson’s gift, the communications school […]

February 26, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Universities, Students Show Support for Morris Brown College

Universities, Students Show Support for Morris Brown CollegeATLANTAThe Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has received approximately 60 letters asking its board members to give Morris Brown College more time to fix its problems, says the association’s executive director, Dr. James T. Rogers. SACS revoked Morris Brown’s accreditation two months ago because of financial problems, […]

February 12, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Dillard University and All That Jazz

Dillard University and All That Jazz New Orleans-based HBCU seeks to set itself apart with creation of new jazz institute, orchestra By Kendra Hamilton The notion simply didn’t compute: New Orleans — the birthplace of jazz; producer of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong to the Marsalis clan; perhaps the only city in […]

January 29, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History Makers

Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History MakersVideotaped interviews ultimately to be made available in digital archivesBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports One hundred years from now when a scholar researches the Black community of the early 21st century, he or she should have access to the HistoryMakers digital archive, a collection of videotaped […]

January 29, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown Shortens Spring Semester

Morris Brown Shortens Spring Semester ATLANTATroubled Morris Brown College announced it would abridge its 15-week spring semester into seven weeks so students can complete classes before an accreditation appeal hearing. Last month, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools revoked accreditation at the private, historically Black college (see Black Issues, Jan. 2). Earlier this month, […]

January 29, 2003

Leadership & Policy

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]

January 29, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

January 15, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Hampton President To Take a Year’s Sabbatical

Hampton President To Take a Year’s Sabbatical HAMPTON, Va.Hampton University President William R. Harvey is taking a sabbatical after 25 years in office to work on a book, school officials said. Harvey could begin his time off next July, said Provost JoAnn Haysbert, who will lead the private university during his absence. Harvey is taking […]

January 15, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Our Raison D’être

Our Raison D’être This particular edition hits on the complex and often painful issue of race. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois said almost 100 years ago upon the publication of The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” And it looks like the same will be true […]

January 15, 2003

Leadership & Policy

More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows

More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows WASHINGTONThe rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as college presidents slowed during the past three years according to The American College President: 2002 Edition, the results of a new survey of college presidents released last month by the American Council […]

January 1, 2003