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A new script for black theater: Dartmouth conference focuses on new strategies

Nearly two years ago, playwright August Wilson stunned the American theatre community by charging that predominately white arts organizations were guilty of undermining African American theater companies. The charges — delivered at Princeton University before the Theatre Communications Group, a leading nonprofit theater organization–sparked a national debate about the role of African American theater companies in American theater.

July 12, 2007

African-American

Auctioning off yesterday – protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents

For Many Black Museums, It’s “Buy-Buy History”

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Business School Dean Holds Ohio State Reins For Now

COLUMBUS Ohio Ohio State’s acting president said the temporary nature of his job hasn’t stopped well-meaning alumni from offering suggestions.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

Students

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

Students

AUSTIN

ARDMORE Okla. Oklahoma’s women’s basketball program has completed a fundraising campaign to endow all 15 of its scholarships, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said Wednesday.

June 26, 2007

Students

Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million

Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.

June 22, 2007

HBCUs

Federal spending for HBCUs is up: agencies from the CIA to the Veterans Administration increase grants, fellowships and gifts – historically black colleges and universities, Central Intelligence Agency

Federal grant, training and recruiting spending directed at historically Black colleges and universities jumped by 21 percent in a two-year, period, according to government figures in a soon-to-be released report.

June 20, 2007

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Bonding your portfolio – investment in higher education bonds

With a stock market pushing to record levels, it’s not hard to understand why so many investors are buying stock equities and mutual funds. Stock investors have seen their portfolios fatten over the last few years.

June 18, 2007

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Wall Street is watching: enrollment, retention and tuition aren’t just an academic concern

Graduation ceremonies are over and a new freshman class is only weeks away from orientation. As another campus metamorphosis begins, student classes are clear evidence of a university’s realization that building enrollments and promoting graduation rates are only a small measure of their success.

June 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Endowments: investing in education’s future – historically African American colleges

With enrollments down, operating costs up, federal research funds disappearing and admission and hiring policies endangered, the best way to coax a smile out of higher education administrators is to mention a single word: endowment.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Dedicated to the ones they love – endowment helps open the Camille Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College

Spelman’s New $15-Million State-of-the-art Camille Cosby Academic Center Draws Tributes, Raves from Community.

June 16, 2007