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Students

The Rise of Blog Nation

For journalism students at the University of California-Berkeley, blogging is just one more responsibility to juggle during the course of the day Story:

July 27, 2005

Students

The Rise of Blog Nation

For journalism students at the University of California-Berkeley, blogging is just one more responsibility to juggle during the course of the day. Story:

July 27, 2005

HBCUs

Professional Appointments

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July 13, 2005

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Professional Appointments

Dr. Alicia J. Jackson was appointed dean of the College of Business and Information Science at Tuskegee University in Alabama. She had been serving as interim dean. Jackson received a bachelor’s from Knox College, an MBA from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin.Tanisha Jenkins has been named […]

March 23, 2005

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One Step Closer

One Step CloserSelection of Black history museum director and museum site expected in 2005 By Ronald RoachThe appointment in December of the high-profile 19-member advisory council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture marked the newest chapter in the long effort to establish a national African American history museum in Washington. Named […]

February 9, 2005

Students

Former Morris Brown College President, Financial Aid Director Indicted for Fraud

Former Morris Brown College President, Financial Aid Director Indicted for FraudFederal authorities say Dolores Cross, Parvesh Singh were involved in student loan scheme By Tracie PowellATLANTA Morris Brown College officials in Atlanta are being mum about the recent indictment of their former president and financial aid director. Dr. Dolores Cross, who now teaches at DePaul […]

December 29, 2004

Sports

Study: Few Minority Football Coaches Reflects Leadership

Study: Few Minority Football Coaches Reflects LeadershipORLANDO, Fla. The dearth of minorities who are college football head coaches reflects the lack of diversity among campus and conference leaders, a University of Central Florida study released in November concludes. UCF’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport found there were five Blacks and one Hispanic employed […]

December 15, 2004

Sports

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]

December 1, 2004

HBCUs

HBCUs, Ford Motor Form Partnership to Implement High School Program

HBCUs, Ford Motor Form Partnership to Implement High School ProgramWASHINGTONTo spearhead a pilot program designed to prepare African American high school students for college and careers, the Ford Motor Company Fund announced a partnership among the national Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ Business Deans Roundtable (HBCU BDRT), the Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford PAS) […]

November 17, 2004

Students

Keeping Students Afloat

Keeping Students AfloatNoel-Levitz awards recognize retention programs that generate resultsBy Crystal L. KeelsSink or swim. That has been the prevailing climate of higher education in the past — students will either find their way through, or find their way out of institutions of higher learning. But since roughly the late 1980s and through the 1990s, […]

October 20, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, Morgan

Stanford Lures Harvard Professors Bobo, MorganBOSTON For married partners in academia, tenure, or the lack thereof, can complicate a couple’s situation substantially, and not always in the most positive manner. But for two nationally renowned professors, Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, who are married, tenure troubles have resulted in a coastal shift that positions them […]

October 20, 2004

HBCUs

Sallie Mae Appoints Director of HBCU Initiatives

Sallie Mae Appoints Director of HBCU InitiativesRESTON, Va.Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading provider of education funding, announced recently that Denise Chaisson has been appointed director for the company’s historically Black college and university (HBCU) initiatives. In this role, Chaisson will lead an effort to enhance Sallie Mae’s and its affiliate brands’ longstanding commitment to provide […]

October 6, 2004