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African-American

HBCUs Explore Ways To Move Beyond Tuition Dependence

Historically Black college and university leaders are seeking the means to move their institutions from a model of tuition-dependency to opening alternative revenue streams that will ensure their institutions’ financial future.

April 14, 2010

Home

Underground Railroad Center, Scholars Cast Eyes on an Old Evil

Joined by Ohio-based scholars, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati updates its mission with a focus on modern-day slavery.

March 14, 2010

Leadership & Policy

Louisiana’s Historically Black University System Nearing Selection of New Leader

Aiming to choose a new leader by mid-April, the Southern University system presidential search committee co-chairmen said they plan to narrow a field of 13 candidates this week and begin interviews this month

March 1, 2010

African-American

Black History Month Special: Oberlin’s Celebrated, But Difficult History

In his new book, the Oberlin emeritus archivist and professor of history talks about how his book painstakingly unravels clues of how the college faced the challenges of establishing a racially and culturally diverse institution from 1835 up to 2007.

February 24, 2010

Students

Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read

Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.

February 22, 2010

Faculty & Staff

University of Maryland President Mote Retiring in August

University of Maryland President C.D. “Dan” Mote Jr. said Monday that he will step down Aug. 31 after a dozen years in the post, making him the university’s fourth-longest serving president.

February 15, 2010

Sports

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

February 2, 2010

Sports

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

February 2, 2010

HBCUs

Dwayne Ashley Resigns as Leader of Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Longtime president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) Dwayne Ashley announced Wednesday he will resign his position to resume work in his Louisiana real estate business, officials said.

December 16, 2009

Students

HBCUs a Bargain Compared with Other Private Colleges, UNCF Says

Applications are on the increase at many private Black colleges, the United Negro College Fund says, and one factor may be their lower tuitions compared with other small private colleges and universities.

December 15, 2009

African-American

Accreditation Reaffirmed for Fisk University, Three Other HBCUs

Four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), including financially troubled Fisk University, had their accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) reaffirmed for another 10 years.

December 8, 2009

Students

Revisiting Higher Ed Accountability in the Obama Era

Panelists at a Washington think tank conference on higher education accountability questioned standards in financial management, accreditation, and the professoriate while addressing fundamental questions about the role and responsibility of U.S. higher education.

November 17, 2009