Black IssuesStudentsSallie Mae Offers Financial Aid Analysis on Web SiteSallie Mae Offers Financial Aid Analysis on Web SiteBy Ronald Roach This spring, college-bound high-school seniors will be getting financial aid award letters from the schools at which they have been accepted. While these letters may seem straightforward, students and parents should be taking a close look at their contents, experts say. The Student Loan […]April 23, 2003HomeInformation Technology Workforce Convocation Set for MayInformation Technology Workforce Convocation Set for May By Ronald Roach ARLINGTON, Va.The Information Technology Association of America is convening its sixth annual National IT Workforce Convocation here on May 5. The one-day event brings together business, government and education leaders to discuss and learn ways to strengthen the American IT workforce. In addition, the event […]April 23, 2003HomeGoing Online with MARCOGoing Online with MARCOMaryland initiative expedites certification process for new teachers By Ronald Roach When Troy and Sharon Anderson of Bowie, Md., decided to leave behind corporate jobs to become public school teachers, they found little comfort in the prospect of having to spend a year or two taking education courses to gain teacher certification. […]April 23, 2003HomeN.C. A&T Wins National Award for Distance LearningN.C. A&T Wins National Award for Distance LearningBy Ronald Roach GREENSBORO, N.C.Last month, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Center for Distance Learning (CDL) became the first national winner of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) 1890 Webb-Godfrey-Hill Award of Excellence in Distance Education. The CDL will be honored for its work with a […]April 23, 2003African-AmericanActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUMActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]April 23, 2003African-AmericanActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUMActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]April 23, 2003African-AmericanActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUMActivists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]April 23, 2003HomeTaking Supreme ActionTaking Supreme Action Michigan proceedings offer some hope that the U.S. Supreme Court will affirm the use of race in academic admissions, say affirmative action proponents. But critics are more skeptical.By Ronald Roach WASHINGTONFollowing the oral arguments heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in the University of Michigan cases earlier this month, affirmative action proponents […]April 23, 2003African-AmericanUNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black CanadiansUNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black Canadians CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Some folks are under the misperception that Canada’s Black population consists largely of descendents of escaped African American slaves, that Canada never had slavery, and that the country is devoid of racism. Not so, said experts at a recent conference here aimed to […]April 23, 2003StudentsUniversity of Arkansas Earmarks $64 Million For Doctoral FellowshipsUniversity of Arkansas Earmarks $64 Million For Doctoral Fellowships FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Academic departments at the University of Arkansas celebrated spring with the bloom of $64 million in new funding for graduate fellowships. The money is part of a $300 million gift the school received last year from the Walton Family Foundation, $100 million of which […]April 23, 2003Previous PagePage 155 of 431Next Page
