Black IssuesHomeCollege Board Reports ‘Modest’ Tuition IncreasesCollege Board Reports ‘Modest’ Tuition IncreasesIn two reports released here last month, the College Board announced that college tuition and fees in the 2000-’01 academic year have increased an average of 4.8 percent at four-year colleges and from 5.2 percent at two-year institutions.Calling the increases modest, College Board President Gaston Caperton says the report’s findings […]November 8, 2000HomeHoward University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship BoardHoward University Dean Named to Javits Fellowship Board Dr. Orlando L. Taylor, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School, has been named to the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program Fellowship Board by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.Taylor, who also directs Howard’s Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program and its Preparing Future Faculty Program, will […]November 8, 2000StudentsHBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan DefaultsHBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan DefaultsAn in-depth review of new federal data shows that historically Black colleges and universities are making major inroads in reducing defaults, particularly at institutions that had high rates for much of the 1990s.For 1998, only four of the nation’s HBCUs had student loan default rates that could place […]November 8, 2000Leadership & PolicyUsing Power to Solve the Diversity DilemmaUsing Power to Solve the Diversity DilemmaI n Dorothy Winbush Riley’s 1995 edition of My Soul Looks Back, ‘Less I forget: A Collection of Quotations by People of Color, the Iroquois are credited with having this to say about power:“Power means authority, the authority of law and custom, backed by such force as necessary to […]November 8, 2000HomeProfessional AppointmentsProfessional AppointmentsDr. Gail C. Christopher has been named executive director of the Innovations in American Government program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Christopher earned a bachelor’s and medical degree from Chicago’s National College of Naprapathy and a doctorate from Union Graduate School.Dr. Steven Edmond has been appointed visiting professor of international […]October 25, 2000StudentsReversing the Plight of African American Male College StudentsReversing the Plight of African American Male College Students Scholars, both African American and Caucasian, have addressed the plight of the African American college student attending a predominantly White college or university. Of special concern is the African American male. Although African American men and women bear similar sociological and psychological scars of racism and […]October 25, 2000African-AmericanEventsEventsNOVEMBERNov. 1-3Writer’s Conference 2000: Celebrating African American Women WritersCommunity College of Baltimore County — Essex CampusBaltimore, Md.Contact: Cheryl GoodmanPhone: (410) 780-6742Fax: (410) 574-2172E-mail: cgoodman@ccbc.cc.md.usNov. 2-4The Education Trust, Inc., 11th Annual Conference“Seeing is Believing: Evidence that We Can Close the Achievement Gap”WashingtonContact: Nevin Brown or Sonya WilsonPhone: (202) 293-1217 Ext. 315Fax: (202) 293-2605E-mail: nbrown@edtrust.org orswilson@edtrust.orgWeb: www.edtrust.orgNov. […]October 25, 2000HomeGrants & AwardsGrants & AwardsDuke University in North Carolina received $1 million from NBA player and former Duke basketball star Grant Hill and his wife, Tamia, to establish an endowment fund for athletic scholarship support at the university. The Hills’ gift is the largest to the university from a former basketball player and will create the Grant […]October 25, 2000StudentsProfessional AppointmentsProfessional AppointmentsLee Hampton is the new executive director of corporate and foundation development at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Previously Hampton was the vice chancellor for university advancement at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Hampton earned a bachelor’s in English from Dillard University and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. […]October 25, 2000StudentsWhatever Happened to Subsidized Education?Whatever Happened to Subsidized Education?This fall has brought news that economic expansion may finally be trickling down to those at the bottom of our nation’s economy. The poverty rate, at 11.8 percent, is at a 21-year low. Incomes were up by more than 2 percent in 1999. The number of Americans without health insurance has […]October 25, 2000Previous PagePage 349 of 431Next Page
