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Report Finds Modest Increase in Minority Enrollment, Graduation Rates

Report Finds Modest Increase in Minority Enrollment, Graduation RatesWASHINGTONThe number of students of color enrolling and graduating from the nation’s colleges and universities continues to increase modestly, but the rate of increase is beginning to slow, according to the 2000-01 Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education, released earlier this month by the American […]

September 26, 2001

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Doctoral Dilemma

Doctoral DilemmaAs more African Americans earn their doctorates, a look behind the numbers reveals key areas of concern.By Kendra HamiltonDoctoral graduation rates among African Americans have risen for the sixth consecutive year. And that’s excellent news, say analysts and administrators toiling on the front lines of the battle to increase minority graduate and professional degree […]

July 18, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Catholic Group Asks Seton Hall to Rescind

Catholic Group Asks Seton Hall to Rescind Morris Brown College President’s Honorary DegreeNEWARK, N.J.The president of Morris Brown College found herself in the middle of a controversy last month when a Roman Catholic group asked Seton Hall University to rescind the honorary degree the university had awarded her.CatholicVote.org, a project of Catholic Alliance, protested the […]

June 20, 2001

HBCUs

Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:

Minority Bachelor’s Degrees on the Rise:Number of African American Bachelor’s Degree Holders Tops 100,000 by Phaedra Brotherton In the 1999-2000 academic year, the number of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees topped the 100,000 mark — coming in at 103,874, an increase of 8,350 degrees, or 8.74 percent, over 1997-1998 figures. After promising gains in 1997-1998 […]

June 6, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Charting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic Programs

Charting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic ProgramsBy Hilary HurdM any college students across the country will have new opportunities open to them as several colleges and universities are offering new academic programs this fall in a hustle to remain competitive and respond to the rapidly changing marketplace. Smith College in Northampton, Mass., South […]

September 13, 2000

HBCUs

Washington Briefs

House OKs Record HBCU Spending BillWASHINGTON — Despite partisan bickering on other issues, the House of Representatives mustered enough support for a fiscal 2001 education budget bill with record spending for historically Black colleges and universities.The 217 to 214 vote puts the House on record favoring a $50 million increase above current federal funding for […]

July 19, 2000

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Xavier Sets the Pace in the Information Age — To a Degree

Xavier Sets the Pace in the Information Age — To a DegreeNEW ORLEANS — Adding to its reputation as a leader in the sciences, Xavier University this fall will become the nation’s first historically Black college or university to independently offer a degree in the red-hot field of computer engineering. The small liberal arts college […]

July 19, 2000

Community Colleges

BI What’s New

This fall, adding to its reputation as a leader in the sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana will become the nation’s first historically Black college or university to independently offer a degree in the field of computer engineering. The small liberal arts institution, which is located in New Orleans, will become the second university in the […]

July 5, 2000

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Competing On an Uneven Field, Still

Competing On an Uneven Field, StillRecently, a friend sent me an e-mail that opened with the following anonymous quote: “Those who think the playing field is level usually have box seats.” As I reviewed the statistical results of this year’s Top 100 undergraduate degree report, that quote echoed through my head.Black Issues has been producing […]

June 21, 2000

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Minority Convocations Lend Cultural Flavor to Celebration

Minority Convocations Lend Cultural Flavor to CelebrationPHOENIX — When Alejandro Contreras graduated last month from Arizona State University, he was thinking about his migrant-worker parents’ mud-caked shoes.“You see our shoes?” Contreras remembers his tired mother saying after returning from a long day in the lettuce fields. “They are all muddy when we come home. Look […]

June 21, 2000

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Scientist Works to Give Women A Voice in the Cyberworld

Scientist Works to Give Women A Voice in the CyberworldPALO ALTO, Calif. — Dr. Anita Borg sees a world suffering from pronoun problems — namely that the technological revolution sweeping the globe is too often led by “pale males” setting standards in a world where women are in the majority.Don’t call her a radical feminist. […]

April 26, 2000

Leadership & Policy

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Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master’s degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems faced by urban communities. According to a university prospectus: “A primary objective of the … program in public health is to provide […]

April 26, 2000