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African-American

Events

EventsNOVEMBER November 25-27Department of Defense Technical Assistance Program (DoD Tap)HBCU/MI Technical Assistance Conference“Greater DoD Opportunities”New OrleansPhone: (800) 530-5941Web: www.uncfsp.org/idapDecemberDecember 5-9Kaleidoscope Leadership InstituteHilton Costa MesaCosta Mesa, Calif.Contact: Dr. Felita T. WilliamsPhone: (404) 244-2988Fax: (404) 244-2399E-mail: [email protected]: www.gpc.peachnet.edu/kaleidoscopeDecember 17-19Eighth Annual Regional Conference on Improving America’s SchoolsU.S. Department of EducationSan Antonio, TexasContact: National Conference Logistics CenterUniversity of OklahomaPhone: […]

November 7, 2001

African-American

Stirring Up ‘Uncivil Wars’ On College Campuses

Stirring Up ‘Uncivil Wars’ On College CampusesDavid Horowitz reparations ad campaign proves explosiveSeveral months have passed since the last campus protests erupted over a David Horowitz advertisement in college newspapers stating that reparations for American slavery is “a Bad Idea — and Racist Too.” But Horowitz, an author, activist and perhaps the nation’s most visible […]

November 7, 2001

African-American

Events

EventsNOVEMBERNovember 1-3Education Trust National Conference“Good Teaching Matters”Hyatt Regency Capitol HillWashingtonContact: Melissa MurphyPhone: (202) 293-1217, Ext. 323E-mail: [email protected]: www.edtrust.orgNovember 7James Madison University’s College of Business“The New Leadership Challenge: Teaming Principles with Practices in a Time of Change”The Omni Shoreham HotelWashingtonPhone:(800) 233-0937E-mail: [email protected]: www.lessonsinleadership.comNovember 9Eighth Annual Diversity Conference“Advancing the Diversity Agenda in Higher Education”Cleveland State UniversityContact: Office […]

October 24, 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

Students

Bringing Northwestern to the People: Recruiting in Our Own Back Yard

Bringing Northwestern to the People: Recruiting in Our Own Back YardThe history of African American students enrolling at Northwestern has fluctuated for the past 20 years, but no one anticipated the record low of only 82 students enrolling in the fall 1996. What happened? A task force of diverse administrators, faculty members and alumni was […]

July 4, 2001

Students

In Symbolic Gesture, UC Regents Repeal Ban On Affirmative Action

In Symbolic Gesture, UC Regents Repeal Ban On Affirmative ActionBy Pamela BurdmanSAN FRANCISCOIn a unanimous vote, the University of California regents have repealed their ban on affirmative action, hoping to send a welcoming message to Black and Latino students — and bid farewell to six years of protests and political infighting.Sealed in backroom agreements under […]

June 6, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Auburn University to Present Honorary Degree to First Black Student

Auburn University to Present Honorary Degree to First Black StudentAUBURN, Ala.Harold A. Franklin, who in 1964 became the first African American student to enroll at Auburn University, returned to the campus earlier this month to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the university during the spring commencement exercises.The honorary degree completed a 37-year […]

May 23, 2001

African-American

Trading Self-Destruction for Self-Determination

Trading Self-Destruction for Self-DeterminationI arrived on campus with nothing. No vision, no goals, no agenda and no idea. However, I knew I wanted a college degree. I wanted to improve myself. As a Black man, I was determined to prove that I could accomplish what so many of my brothers could not. Going to a […]

May 9, 2001

Students

Where are the Black Men on Campus?

Where are the Black Men on Campus? As institutions of higher education struggle to enroll Black men at comparable numbers to Black females, the imbalance is having an impact beyond the classroom and campus.By most measures  of a private college under new leadership, the push by Dillard University in New Orleans to boost its enrollment […]

May 9, 2001

Students

Pennsylvania Panel to Probe Racial Incidents On College Campuses

Pennsylvania Panel to Probe Racial Incidents On College CampusesAction prompted by recent incidents at Penn State, University of PennsylvaniaBy Eleanor Lee YatesHARRISBURG, Pa.A resolution authorizing the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ Committee on Education to investigate racial incidents on college campuses recently passed unanimously. Rep. James R. Roebuck Jr., the sponsor of the resolution, hopes the […]

May 9, 2001

Students

Economic Slowdown Bad News for Student Debtors

Economic Slowdown Bad News for Student DebtorsIn his briefing to the Senate Banking Committee last month, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said that while the economy is slowing, economic futures remain bright because productivity continues to be robust.  This steady productivity is the result of changes in the way we do business, largely because […]

March 28, 2001

African-American

State Board Investigates Civil Rights Complaint at Bluefield State University

State Board Investigates Civil Rights Complaint at Bluefield State UniversityCHARLESTON, W.Va. The Higher Education Interim Governing Board is investigating complaints of civil rights violations at Bluefield State College, the board chairwoman said recently. The board sent two consultants — a vice president of West Virginia University and a Marshall University lawyer — to the college […]

February 28, 2001