Black IssuesHomePenn Team to Help Build Ghana’s IT InfrastructurePenn Team to Help Build Ghana’s IT Infrastructure PHILADELPHIAEngineering students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and an African university have received a donation of Hewlett-Packard equipment and services valued at $1.12 million to establish a high-speed information and communication infrastructure in Ghana. The initiative is believed to be the most extensive international digital […]March 13, 2002HomeSupercomputing in the NeighborhoodSupercomputing in the NeighborhoodSupercomputers are generally thought to exist exclusively for advanced scientific, medical and engineering research and uses. However, in Winston-Salem, N.C., a coalition of universities, businesses and local government agencies is looking to establish a supercomputer center not only benefiting researchers but also providing a boost to education and economic development in the […]March 13, 2002HomeThe Campus Gender GapThe Campus Gender Gap — A Women’s IssueFeminist that I am, my work tends to focus on the status of African American women before it looks more broadly at the African American community. Indeed, I have been known to chafe at the policy focus on African American men, especially when it shifts light away from […]March 13, 2002HomeThe Privilege to ProtestThe Privilege to Protest The dispute began innocently enough. Thomas Glave, an assistant professor in the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Binghamton, along with the director of the creative writing program and another senior colleague, both of whom are White women, were serving together on a search committee for […]March 13, 2002HomeBaffled and Bewildered by RaceBaffled and Bewildered by RaceCollege freshmen are more liberal than they’ve ever been, according to last fall’s edition of The American Freshman: National Norms for 2001, a study conducted annually by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education. However, many still enter institutions of higher education with stereotypical ideas about race, […]March 13, 2002Faculty & Staff‘Race in the College Classroom’‘Race in the College Classroom’Minority faculty often face student resistance when teaching about raceDealing with conflict in the multiethnic classroom — well, it can pose dilemmas that stump even the so-called experts.An exchange during “Comparative and Collaborative Approaches to Teaching Multiethnic Literatures,” a panel at the recent Modern Languages Association conference, neatly illustrates the point. […]March 13, 2002HomePolitics or Progress?Politics or Progress? Education observers ponder significance of Paige’s appointment, tenure.HOUSTONCongratulations and photo ops ended months ago. The swearing-in of former Houston schools chief Dr. Roderick Paige as education secretary seems like eons ago. And the “attaboys” for Paige raising test scores in a sprawling urban district have subsided. So a year after Paige assumed […]March 13, 2002HBCUsRODERICK PAIGERODERICK PAIGEU.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Roderick R. Paige sat down with Black Issues senior writer Ronald Roach and Washington correspondent Charles Dervarics to discuss a wide-ranging set of issues related to the Bush administration’s education pledge to “Leave No Child Behind.” Paige was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the seventh Secretary of the […]March 13, 2002HomeCSU Launches First Combined Veterinary Medicine, Business DegreeCSU Launches First Combined Veterinary Medicine, Business DegreeFort Collins, Colo.The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the College of Business at Colorado State University have launched the first program in North America combining the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Masters of Business Administration degree.Beginning in the fall semester of 2002, the College of […]March 13, 2002StudentsUniversity of Tennessee Offers Grants to Attract Black StudentsUniversity of Tennessee Offers Grants to Attract Black StudentsKNOXVILLE, Tenn.Under pressure to increase minority enrollment, the University of Tennessee will begin a new scholarship program this fall to attract Black students. “This program is meant to make more resources available to African American students,” says Richard Bayer, dean of admissions. “We think we can do […]March 13, 2002Previous PagePage 241 of 431Next Page
