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White House Names Humanities Honorees

White House Names Humanities Honorees Washington President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the 2000 National Humanities Medalists, an award administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. An award ceremony was held last month in Washington and the winners were honored at a White House dinner.“The 2000 National Humanities Medalists are distinguished individuals […]

January 3, 2001

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Lack of Action on Federal Education Budget Draws Concern

Lack of Action on Federal Education Budget Draws ConcernConcern is mounting in Washington about the continued lack of action on a federal 2001 education budget for student aid and other programs.Pell Grants, college work/study and aid to Black colleges all have temporary funding that was to last through Dec. 6. These programs have had short-term […]

December 20, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Leon Wright Bey has been promoted to dean of the school of liberal arts and education at Virginia State University in Petersburg. Bey has been an employee of Virginia State for 22 years, serving most recently as chair of the health, physical education and recreation department. Bey received a bachelor’s at VSU; a […]

December 6, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law Professor

Students Come to Aid of Popular African American Law ProfessorLexington, KentuckyS tudents and alumni at the University of Kentucky’s College of Law are throwing their support behind a popular African American law professor who was denied tenure. Darlene Goring, one of three Black faculty members at the college, was being considered last month for tenure […]

December 6, 2000

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Enlarging and Diversifying Our Technical Talent Pool

Enlarging and Diversifying Our Technical Talent PoolT he idea was classically simple. Not just to educate our best young minds to the highest levels, but to deliver on the promise that all children can learn and achieve. That was the beginning, 25 years ago, of what first was known as the Southeast Consortium, then Southeast […]

November 22, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Black Writers Ready for the Millennium

Black Writers Ready for the MillenniumChicago State University played host to approximately 550 writers, students, scholars and educators who attended the 10th Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference last month. The four-day conference, “Ready for the Millennium: Black Writers’ Approaches to the Diaspora,” opened with a children’s poetry reading and culminated with a presentation of literary […]

November 22, 2000

Students

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Christopher T. Curry has been appointed director of residence life at Delaware State University. He was formerly assistant dean of students and director of residence life at Delaware Valley College. Curry earned his bachelor’s from Lincoln University, his master’s from Cheyney University and his doctorate from LaSalle University.Dr. Paul Keys has been named […]

November 8, 2000

Health

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…

They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…For 10 years, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin volunteered her services at a rural health clinic she founded in southern Alabama, moonlighting in emergency rooms to support herself and the clinic.Her efforts went largely unheralded until Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg featured her in a 1995 New York Times story, “Angel in […]

November 8, 2000

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Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board

Howard University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]

November 8, 2000

Recruitment & Retention

Staying Power: Colleges Work to Improve Retention Rates

Staying Power: Colleges Work to Improve Retention RatesBy Hilary HurdHAMPTON, Va.T wo years ago, Wilbur Powell was a first-semester freshman. He slept too much, watched too much TV and was not excited about the classes he was taking. By the end of the semester, he had a 1.3 grade-point average. Rudea Downs also was a […]

October 25, 2000

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Extra Credit, Extra Criticism

Extra Credit, Extra CriticismAdvanced Placement courses are increasingly being viewed as indicative of minority equity — and the indicators don’t look good. By Pamela BurdmanOAKLAND, Calif.Massanda D’Johns has always planned to go to college, and now the Castlemont High School senior isn’t taking any chances. Castlemont, in Oakland, Calif., offers six Advanced Placement courses, and […]

October 25, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations Consultant

Shortage of Black Faculty Prompts Florida Law School To Hire Race Relations ConsultantGAINESVILLE, Fla. The University of Florida’s law school has taken steps to hire a race relations consultant to find out why it can’t keep Black faculty members. Black faculty members hold only two of the law school’s 54 full-time faculty positions. “I attribute […]

October 25, 2000