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Goucher College dropping SATs as requirement for admissions

TOWSON Md. Goucher College has dropped the requirement that applicants submit SAT scores, the second four-year institution in Maryland to do so.

July 27, 2007

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The Making of Malveaux

CNN’s White House correspondent discusses the impact of having educators as parents and how higher education shaped her journalism career.

July 25, 2007

HBCUs

IU Vice President Headed to NCCU

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Outgoing Indiana University vice president Charlie Nelms has been appointed chancellor of North Carolina Central University, the nation’s first state-supported liberal arts institution for black students.

July 15, 2007

Students

Black Enterprise-Listed – listing of top 50 colleges for African American students

A new college ranking, designed to help students and their parents evaluate an institution’s academic and social appeal for African Americans, hits newsstands.

July 14, 2007

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The Epitome of Inequality

Alabama’s all-but-level higher education playing field is a case study in what’s wrong with higher education’s commitment to equity and diversity

July 14, 2007

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Word processing skills are not writing skills

Earlier this year, the steady drum beat of hysteria about “information haves and have-nots” hit a fever pitch when two University of Vanderbilt researchers released a study about the “the digital divide” between Black and White access to computers and the Internet.

July 13, 2007

Leadership & Policy

African American college presidents in decline

Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University

When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Technology: a considerable investment expected to pay big dividends – use of the World Wide Web as an educational resource

Like most American institutions of higher learning, Voorhees College is boldly embracing the future. The small liberal arts, historically Black institution in Denmark, S.C., has adopted information technology to overcome the isolation that its rural, out-of-the-way location has imposed on the Episcopal Church-affiliated school.

July 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

University of Maine-Farmington Joins Others in Withdrawing From Part of U.S. News Survey

PORTLAND Maine The University of Maine at Farmington is joining a growing list of colleges and universities declining to complete a survey for the U.S. News & World Report rankings of higher-education institutions.

July 8, 2007

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Seeing a Dream Come to Fruition

Thirty years ago, the Rev. Father Boniface Hardin envisioned a language school for African-Americans, but what he founded has become so much more.

June 27, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Cole’s shoes will be hard to fill: King Farris, Ladner said to be ‘fine candidates.’ – Johnetta Cole as President of Spelman College, Vera King Farris and Joyce Ledner

Johnetta Cole, the first African-American female president of Spelman College, nation’s premiere liberal arts schools, announced that she will relinquish the presidency next spring.

June 22, 2007