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Faculty & Staff

What Are Think Tanks Thinking About?

What Are Think Tanks Thinking About?And are they thinking enough about minorities and higher education?By Eleanor Lee Yates“C olleges would be great places to work if there were no students,” or so goes the age-old joke among college research professors. Long considered coveted respites as well as invaluable institutions for lawmakers and other information hungry […]

December 20, 2000

Lawmakers, Colleges Make Some Funding Gains

Lawmakers, Colleges Make Some Funding GainsWhile still working on the federal education budget, Congress is making headway on a few budget bills of importance to educators and minority-serving colleges specifically.President Clinton signed a U.S. Department of Agriculture budget bill for 2001 with funding for historically Black colleges and universities. Under the agreement, the agency would […]

December 6, 2000

Black Frat Announces Digital Divide Initiative

Black Frat Announces Digital Divide InitiativeBALTIMOREThe Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. announced last month a nationwide project called the “Digital Heritage Initiative” in collaboration with the Microsoft Corp. and Africana.com to provide computer software and educational materials to public elementary, junior high and high schools throughout the country. Each of the fraternity’s chapters nationwide will […]

November 22, 2000

Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination Efforts

Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination EffortsBy Lydia LumAUSTIN, TexasEducators here are asking state lawmakers to help finance new endowments of faculty positions and student scholarships. The request is part of an effort to settle the dispute between the federal Office of Civil Rights and the state of Texas regarding inequalities among the […]

November 22, 2000

Rutgers’ Minority Graduation Rate Doubles in Last Decade

Rutgers’ Minority Graduation Rate Doubles in Last DecadeNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. Rutgers University’s graduation rate for minority students has doubled in the last decade, its president said last month. As a percentage of total degrees conferred, minorities accounted for 35 percent of graduates in 1999, up from 17 percent in 1989, president Francis L. Lawrence said. […]

October 11, 2000

The Need for Closure

The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]

July 5, 2000

Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards

Special Report Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards uring basketball season here at Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena, a group of youngsters ages 8 through 13 can be found watching the action from a section of floor seats known as Reggie’s Corner.The corner is named for former Huskies team captain Reggie Lewis, who passed away suddenly in 1993 […]

April 26, 2000

Tribal College Students Petition Congress for More Financial Help

Tribal College Students Petition Congress for More Financial HelpSANTA FE, N.M. — Students at the Institute of American Indian Arts have started a letter-writing campaign to Congress and are seeking help from their tribes, saying the school needs more support than it’s getting. Under a compromise version of funding for the school, the institute is […]

November 24, 1999

Ressurecting the Thurman Legacy for the Next Millennium

Ressurecting the Thurman Legacy for the Next MillenniumAt the entrance to Morehouse College, stand two monuments to two giants of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Howard Thurman.King’s legacy looms large in the nation’s memory. But while Thurman was a confidant to King and is widely considered to be the […]

November 10, 1999

Leadership & Policy

Misinformation Super Highway?

Misinformation Super Highway?If you spend any time on the Internet, you know that there is a wealth of information that can zip through your phone lines and into your home or office in the blink of an eye. Some of that information is useful and some of it — well — isn’t. Take, for example, […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Shameful Occurrences

Shameful OccurrencesWhile rummaging though our files in search of highlights to include in this anniversary edition, we also came across many, many shameful occurrences. Any reputable 15-year assessment of Black issues in higher education would be incomplete without at least a mention of some of these ignominious episodes. This is by no means a comprehensive […]

August 18, 1999

Faculty & Staff

United We Stand

United We StandNAFEO, HACU, and AIHEC have formed a new alliance to improve support for students of colorWASHINGTON — The old divide-and-conquer ploy may be harder to execute on future racial politics of higher education now that a new alliance has been formed between three of the largest organizations serving the needs of minority students.In […]

August 4, 1999

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