Black IssuesSTEMWest Virginia University Tests Biometric Security SystemWest Virginia University Tests Biometric Security SystemBy Ronald Roach MORGANTOWN, W.Va.West Virginia University is testing a biometric hand geometry reader at one of its residence halls and the university recreation center. The reader allows students to gain entry with a simple hand scan. The testing may lead to the school becoming one of the first […]February 12, 2003Recruitment & RetentionCollege, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web SiteCollege, Corporate Coalition Develop Career Web SiteBy Ronald RoachBETHLEHEM, Pa.A coalition of college career center directors and corporate human resource executives have unveiled a Web-based, national college recruiting system intended to link colleges, students and employers. The project, NACElink, a joint venture of the Direct Employers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers […]February 12, 2003StudentsPaving the Way into Technology TransferPaving the Way into Technology TransferBy Ronald Roach As a graduate student in computer science, Monica Williams is intent on having a career that gets her into the senior management ranks of the companies for which she will work. In the spring of 2001, near the end of her first year of graduate studies at […]February 12, 2003LatinxHispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersHispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]February 12, 2003LatinxHispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersHispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]February 12, 2003StudentsA Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month.Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month. Alabama A&M University, NormalBlack History Month Theme: “The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections”17th Annual “Celebrating Black History Thru Jazz” Reception featuring Pianist/Composer Randy Weston; Benjamin Banneker Banquet; Poetry: Poet Joye Pettis, author of African-American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources. […]February 12, 2003Faculty & StaffKeeping a Legacy from CrumblingKeeping a Legacy from Crumbling WASHINGTONIn 2001, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the former home of the late Dr. Carter G. Woodson on its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States — an ironic fate for a place connected to the man who ranks as perhaps the greatest […]February 12, 2003StudentsA Tribute to Carter G. WoodsonA Tribute to Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950)By Dr. James L. Conyers Jr. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson is one of the most important but largely overlooked figures in American history. He challenged conventional wisdom, questioned authority and sought equity. As a result of Woodson’s scholarly contributions and activism, Negro History Week was established in 1926 and […]February 12, 2003African-AmericanW.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering IntellectualW.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual “Well, you can say Marx, and then you can say Freud, but then you’d better say Du Bois really quickly in the triumvirate of seminal minds,” says John Edgar Wideman, novelist, essayist and distinguished professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Dr. David Levering Lewis, the Martin Luther King […]February 12, 2003African-AmericanA Timeless LegacyA Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when […]February 12, 2003Previous PagePage 170 of 431Next Page
