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Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Dinner Raises Record $1.4 Million

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Dinner Raises Record $1.4 MillionNEW YORKDefying the odds in these tough economic times, the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund raised a record $1.4 million at its 14th Anniversary Awards Dinner, held at the Sheraton New York last month. Income from the dinner was reported to be 60 percent ahead of that raised […]

November 21, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Stillman Latest HBCU to Go Wireless

Stillman Latest HBCU to Go WirelessTUSCALOOSA, Ala.Stillman College has joined the ranks of historically Black colleges and universities that have established a campus-wide wireless computing network for its students, faculty and staff. In addition to establishing a wireless network this fall, the college has supplied every one of its 1,513 students with a laptop computer. […]

November 7, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Pittsburgh Couple Gives $3 Million

Pittsburgh Couple Gives $3 Million To Penn State for Science, BusinessSTATE COLLEGE, Pa.A Pittsburgh couple has donated $3 million to create endowed faculty chairs at Penn State University in the Eberly College of Science and the Smeal College of Business Administration. Ronald R. Davenport, who earned his undergraduate degree in business from Penn State, is […]

November 7, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Spelman College President Announces Retirement

Spelman College President Announces RetirementATLANTADr. Audrey Forbes Manley, the eighth president and the first alumna president of Spelman College, announced her retirement at a college convocation ceremony last month.  “When I accepted this position of honor, I identified a number of goals for a five-year tenure that I believed would enhance our distinctive legacy of […]

November 7, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among Blacks

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among BlacksNASHVILLE, Tenn. A $22 million grant announced last month for researchers at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Institute will fund a multistate study to explain why Blacks die of cancer at disproportionately high rates. The five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will be used for […]

November 7, 2001

Students

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to Students

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to StudentsThe College Board in two recent studies reported that college tuition and fees in 2001-2002 had increased an average of between 5.5 and 7.7 percent at four-year institutions, and between 5.5 and 5.8 percent at two-year institutions, while a record of more than $74 […]

November 7, 2001

Leadership & Policy

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?Many wonder what Bollinger’s departure will mean for the battle to preserve the university’s admissions policiesBy Erik LordsANN ARBOR, Mich.When University of Michigan president Lee Bollinger confirmed earlier this month that he will become Columbia University’s next president, it triggered speculation about who will replace the popular leader […]

October 24, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little Fallout

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little FalloutBut Baton Rouge Community College experiences 70 percent enrollment jump.By Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, LaLast summer, when Southern University was poised to raise its admission standards as part of a federal desegregation settlement, school officials were bracing for a loss of 700 students — or about 8 percent of […]

October 10, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Changing Complexions, New Complications

Changing Complexions, New Complications Cal state university’s james lyons and james rosser face unprecedented leadership challenges and opportunities as their institutions experience demographic changesBy Cheryl D. Fieldsn many ways, the Los Angeles basin is ground zero for the shifting demographic status of African Americans and Chicano/Latinos. Cities like Inglewood, Compton, Carson, Long Beach and even […]

September 26, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in California

Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in CaliforniaWALNUT, Calif.California Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, pledged to amend legislation to restore some of the $126 million in community college funding cuts recently made by Gov. Gray Davis.“I think it’s time community colleges stand up for what has rightfully been earned,” says Pacheco.Pacheco announced to a crowd […]

September 12, 2001

Leadership & Policy

University of Maryland Honors Civil Rights Activist

University of Maryland Honors Civil Rights Activist For Seven-Decade StruggleBALTIMOREDorothy Height’s fight for civil rights and gender equity began with anti-lynching protests in New York in the 1930s. The Richmond, Va., native worked on voter registration drives in the South during the 1950s and was at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s side when he […]

August 15, 2001

Leadership & Policy

HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial Help

HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial HelpCongressional hearing draws 300 people to Wilberforce University in Ohio By Mark FisherWILBERFORCE, OhioHistorically Black colleges and universities need greater federal financial help to make college affordable for students and to install the technology necessary to best prepare those students, four college presidents told congressional leaders last month. […]

August 1, 2001