Black IssuesLeadership & PolicyCharting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic ProgramsCharting New Territory: Colleges, Universities Offering New Academic ProgramsBy Hilary HurdM any college students across the country will have new opportunities open to them as several colleges and universities are offering new academic programs this fall in a hustle to remain competitive and respond to the rapidly changing marketplace. Smith College in Northampton, Mass., South […]September 13, 2000Faculty & StaffThe New Academic YearThe New Academic YearThe short answer to any query about trends in higher education for the upcoming academic year: Ask after the presidential election. The upcoming election may well be the wild card that trumps all others in the deck being dealt to college administrators, faculty and students — not just for 2000-2001, but for the […]September 13, 2000Recruitment & RetentionPutting Our Issues on the AgendaPutting Our Issues on the AgendaIn an academy ripe with scholarship as mind-boggling and varied as a president’s “to do” list is long, determining what will be the biggest issues to watch this new academic year was difficult, at best. With the higher education world taking on so much — from affirmative action to student […]September 13, 2000HomeInternet Leading to Changes in Personal ComputingInternet Leading to Changes in Personal ComputingIs it time to scrap your PC or dump your investments in the likes of PC kingpins Intel and Microsoft? For the past five years a vocal melange of pundits and industry leaders have been predicting the death of the PC. It’s complicated, expensive, unreliable and underutilized, they say. […]August 30, 2000HomeiLab Immerses Students in Multimedia EnvironmentiLab Immerses Students in Multimedia EnvironmentThe introduction of faster and better information technology tools, such as personal computers and laptops, has been constant since their arrival on campuses over the past two decades. So it’s not unusual that as tools have changed, the facilities, such as the campus computer center, have too.Howard University’s $5 million, […]August 30, 2000LatinxCampuses Move Toward Wireless ComputingCampuses Move Toward Wireless ComputingWASHINGTONStudents arriving at Howard University this fall will find one of the latest information technology amenities available to them in their dormitory rooms — the ability to access the campus computer network through a wireless connection.Students, faculty and staff will, with the aid of special modems, have wireless access to Howard’s […]August 30, 2000StudentsExcerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusExcerpts from Dr. Arthur E. Levine’s Diversity on CampusThe Meaning of DiversityThe academy does not agree on what diversity means or how it should be achieved. To be more precise, over the past four decades, the term has taken on a number of different, competing, even conflicting meanings, often on the same campuses. Several years […]August 30, 2000HomeTeachers College Helped Southern Black EducatorsTeachers College Helped Southern Black EducatorsWhen Dr. Wiley Bolden left the army at the end of World War II, he planned to continue his education. He had already received a bachelor’s in chemistry from Alabama State Teachers College (now Alabama State University). As a man of color living in Alabama in the 1940s, Bolden’s choices […]August 30, 2000StudentsThe Art of DiversityThe Art of Diversity Dr. Arthur E. Levine is in a pretty enviable position. As president of Columbia University’s Teachers College, he sits at the helm of a Harlem, N.Y.-based institution steeped in its legacy of inclusion. Back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, Southern states burdened with the shackles of segregation readily paid for […]August 30, 2000HomePathways to DisplacementPathways to DisplacementAlthough the interstate highway system is a valuable asset for Americans, one researcher argues that its construction during the racially charged 1950s and 1960s increased segregation among urban populations.Dr. Ray Mohl, the history department chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studies the development of the nation’s interstates and their effect on […]August 30, 2000Previous PagePage 364 of 431Next Page