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Faculty & Staff

Robotics Education Spreads Among HBCUs

Dr. Andrew Williams’ teaching and research efforts has sparked a robotics education movement that now extends from Spelman College to several historically Black colleges and universities.

January 12, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Getting to Know: Dr. Robert Franklin Jr.

Prior to profiling Morehouse’s new president in the pages of Diverse, we reported online about his speech at the HBCU Week conference last month where he essentially outlined some of his plans for the all-male college.

October 2, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

A Sign of the Times

Prior to profiling Morehouse’s new president in the pages of Diverse, we reported online about his speech at the HBCU Week conference last month where he essentially outlined some of his plans for the all-male college.

October 2, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Virginia high court to hear disputes over Randolph coed move

RICHMOND Va. The Virginia Supreme Court will hear the appeals of students and alumni challenging the end of 115 years of single-sex education at the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College.

September 22, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Sparks Fly at HBCU Week Session on Wage Disparities Study

Washington Hundreds of top administrators and faculty gathered in Washington, D.C., this week for the HBCU Week Conference, which concluded Tuesday. Attendees were exposed to a wide array of programming focused on a “fulfilling the covenant” theme, inspired by Tavis Smiley’s best-selling book, The Covenant With Black America.

September 11, 2007

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Soldier in Iraq Uses Computer, Friends to Stay in College

MIAMI Juan Ramos hunkers down in Army barracks just outside Saddam Hussein’s hometown, hoping insurgent fire doesn’t interrupt his online biology class.

July 15, 2007

Students

Remote Desert College Nurtures Students’ Bodies and Minds

DEEP SPRINGS VALLEY Calif. In this remote stretch of desert near Death Valley, the young man who has to wake up early to milk the cows could have gone to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley.

July 15, 2007

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Sudarkasa’s epilogue – Niara Sudarkasa, Lincoln University – Interview

After nearly twelve years at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black institutions, Lincoln University, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa resigned last month under a cloud of controversy (see news story pg 14). The former Gloria A. Marshall has enjoyed a more than thirty-year career in higher education, punctuated by achievements that have garnered her both esteem — such as her celebrated work as a professor of anthropology, and her visionary expansion of Lincoln’s already prestigious ties to African nations — and ridicule — her 1991 testimony on behalf of then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, and the current allegations of malfeasance. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted by Black Issues executive editor Cheryl D. Fields only moments after the much revered and maligned president announced her resignation.

July 14, 2007

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Acting surgeon general Audrey Manley named new president of Spelman

Atlanta It took 116 years for it to happen, but Spelman College alumnae finally got their wish: One of their own, graduate Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley, has been named as the eighth president of the all-women’s college in Atlanta.

July 7, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hazing illegal but persistent – hazing of women cadets at the Virginia Military Institute

CHARLESTON, S.C. The kind of hazing that allegedly happened to two female cadets at The Citadel in recent months is nothing new.

July 4, 2007

Disabilties

Black Men and Education Focus Of Urban League Report

This year’s “The State of Black America” study by the National Urban League pays the most attention to Black males because they are further away from parity with their White counterparts in several significant categories.

June 27, 2007

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Is racism a male thing? Study suggests that men have less tolerance than women

A new study that suggests racism within small groups appears to affect men more than women may have immense implications.

June 22, 2007