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Faculty & Staff

An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom

An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]

July 19, 2000

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Give Your Resume the Electronic Edge

Give Your Resume the Electronic EdgeYou’ve invested years of effort, time and money in earning your degree. Here’s a tip to help give your career a head start. Even if you are not looking for employment in a technical field, there’s a good chance you’ll need an electronic version of your resume to be competitive […]

July 5, 2000

Students

Report Predicts Surge in Minority Enrollment by 2015

Report Predicts Surge in Minority Enrollment by 2015PRINCETON, N.J. —  Minority students are expected to swell the ranks of undergraduates over the next 15 years, pushing enrollments in higher education up by more than 2.6 million students. But while racial or ethnic minorities will represent a dramatic proportion of the new students — as many […]

June 21, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI What’s New

Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master’s degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems faced by urban communities. According to a university prospectus: “A primary objective of the … program in public health is to provide […]

April 26, 2000

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Major Matters

Major MattersIt used to be that if you were to ask a Black person who graduated from a traditionally White college to name the first Black person to earn a degree from that institution in say, electrical engineering, they could probably do it within the blink of an eye.More often than not, the person who […]

April 12, 2000

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ACE Troubleshooter

ACE TroubleshooterWelcome relief and big expectations accompany Dr. William B. Harvey’s appointment as head of the Office of Minorities in Higher EducationWhen the American Council on Education announced the new head of its Office of Minorities in Higher Education last month, observers said they were getting the best of both worlds — a respected scholar […]

April 12, 2000

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Survey Shows Support for Diversity in Colleges, Business

Survey Shows Support for Diversity in Colleges, BusinessWASHINGTON — A recently released survey by the Business Higher Education Forum shows that a majority of Americans think that diversity — and many methods taken by institutions to ensure it — is important in business and higher education.The Business Higher Education Forum, a collaboration between the American […]

March 15, 2000

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What Now for the Office of Minorities in Higher Education?

What Now for the Office of Minorities in Higher Education? WASHINGTON — Last month, many in Washington’s higher education community turned out at One Dupont Circle to bid farewell to Dr. Deborah Carter Wilds, who is heading to Seattle to oversee the Gates Millennium Scholars program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Some people […]

March 15, 2000

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Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE Report

Modest Gains in Enrollment, Says New ACE ReportWASHINGTON — Minority students continued to make modest enrollment gains on the nation’s college campuses in 1997, according to a report released last month by the American Council on Education here.The college-going rate of minority students rose by 3.7 percent between 1996 and 1997, slightly higher than the […]

March 1, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

March 1, 2000

Disabilties

Washington Briefs

White House Plans New Education Tax BreakWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration again is touting new tax benefits for higher education, though its ideas may not fare as well as they did back in 1997.That year, Congress approved two new tax credit programs — the HOPE Scholarship and the lifelong learning credit. HOPE provides up to […]

February 16, 2000

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Identity Matters

Identity MattersAn Asian-Caribbean-American’s perspectiveOne place where the African and Indian Diasporas meet is in the Caribbean. After France and England abolished slavery in their holdings there, plantation owners brought Indian laborers to the Caribbean to work the fields. Most came as indentured servants — some not knowing their status until they arrived.Dr. M. Godfrey Mungal, […]

February 2, 2000