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HBCUs

White House HBCU Initiative Chief Quits During Contentious Board Meeting

On the job for slightly over a year, White House Initiative on HBCUs Executive Director Charles Greene has called it quits. This came at a meeting of the President’s Board of Advisors on HBCUs last week, in which several members expressed frustration with Greene for failing to deliver on time a completed 2004-05 report on federal agencies’ grant activity with HBCUs.

September 16, 2007

African-American

Grants & Gifts

Bowling Green State University (Ohio) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the Civic Education Partnership Initiative in Lebanon and Morocco. BGSU’s International Democratic Education Institute will conduct the initiative, which will bring educators from both countries to BGSU for an intensive curriculum-development seminar, among other […]

September 5, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Highlighting the Value of Diversity in Acadamia

A mandate from the top down remains key to the successful implementation of diversity initiatives.

August 8, 2007

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SIUE exploring text-messaging method of warning campus of threats

EDWARDSVILLE Ill. In line on her college campus to donate blood, Angela Negron was unsure which was more surprising: That the school’s police happened upon a fellow student’s cryptic note allegedly threatening mayhem rivaling April’s massacre at Virginia Tech, or that she had to learn of the threat from a reporter not the school five days after it surfaced.

July 26, 2007

Students

Texas State U. Professor Teaches South African University How To Infuse ‘Multiculturalism’ in Curriculum

Texas State University-San Marcos’ Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Project, a program designed to help diversify its faculty teaching methods and course content, has caught the attention of a university a world away — in South Africa.

July 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Gordon Gee to be Highest Paid College President in Ohio

AKRON Ohio Incoming Ohio State University president Gordon Gee will take a pay cut when he leaves Vanderbilt University to assume the helm of the nation’s largest university, but his $775,000 salary easily will make him the highest paid college president in the state.

July 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

At Presstime

JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER

July 14, 2007

Students

Worth-Less Grants

Rising Pell grant awards are not keeping pace with rising tuition and a new report shows that they are depriving needy students of educational choice

July 14, 2007

Students

Kirwan’s Way

Ohio State University’s new president has taken a strong stand on diversity. Some say his is an example of the type of commitment White male senior executives need to make if higher education’s dreams of diversity are to be realized.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

ACE report urges nontraditional admissions criteria – American Council on Education

WASHINGTON When it comes to admissions practices, the status quo has got to go. That was the core message of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) latest status report highlighting progress in the growth of minority students and faculty on American campuses.

July 14, 2007

HBCUs

Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.

July 14, 2007

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Students Are Shunning Technology’s Fast Track

WASHINGTON Forget starting salaries above $40,000 and a choice of companies come graduation day. Freshmen may be toting laptops and chatting by e-mail, but they’re shunning majors that would put them on a fast track for computer jobs.

July 14, 2007