Black IssuesFaculty & Staff100 Years of Change100 Years of ChangeFor Better, For WorseThere is no doubt that access to higher education has played a critical role in the evolving status of people of color in the 20th century. In this edition, Black Issues reviews the century throught the prism of some of the personalities whose vision, sacrifice and, in some cases, […]December 22, 1999StudentsBayou Classic Gets Bigger, RicherBayou Classic Gets Bigger, RicherGo-it-alone strategy puts more than a little sugar in Grambling’s and Southern’s bowlsBy Scott DyerNEW ORLEANS — The annual Bayou Classic football game between Louisiana’s two major historically Black universities has built a reputation over the past 26 years as the biggest Black happening in America.Each year on the weekend after […]December 22, 1999Faculty & StaffBerkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks ElsewhereBerkeley Struggles As the Faculty Looks ElsewhereBERKELEY, Calif. — Issues of race and racism are swirling about the University of California at Berkeley, stirred up by the imminent departures of two professors of color and ongoing concern over the future of the ethnic studies department.At issue: Is prestigious Berkeley’s ivory tower a bastion for only […]December 22, 1999StudentsNYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation CessationNYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation CessationNEW YORK — The City University of New York has decided to bar remedial students from its four-year programs, the latest such decision by the nation’s higher education officials. On a 9-6 vote last month, the New York Board of Regents said the plan is consistent with the university’s […]December 22, 1999HomeAll They Can Be and a College DegreeAll They Can Be and a College DegreeArmy hopes to boost recruitment with proposal that would expand its role in the education of its soldiers.WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has been aware of and used distance learning on the higher education level for some time. But now, the Army has plans of using the technology […]December 22, 1999StudentsBI What’s NewThe intent is “to do everything we can to connect the School of Education to the teachers of Jackson and the state [of Mississippi] as a whole,”says Dr. Ivan Banks, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Jackson State University. That is why beginning this spring, the historically Black institution will offer Classroom Management EDCI […]December 22, 1999African-AmericanBI News BriefsMiss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. — In a ruling praised by education partisans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a federal judge will allow a four-year college program to begin accepting students as early as next summer, if funding allows. Eight months after blocking college expansion plans on the Gulf Coast, […]December 22, 1999DisabiltiesWashington BriefsPeople of Color and Women Gain In EnrollmentWASHINGTON — Students of color represent a larger share of the college population than they did at the beginning of this decade, a new Education Department report says.Minorities in 1997 accounted for 27 percent of all college students, up from 20 percent in 1990, says the study, Getting There: […]December 22, 1999LatinxStudents of Color Win in Final Education BudgetStudents of Color Win in Final Education BudgetWASHINGTON — Postsecondary institutions serving students of color earned some hard-fought budget victories as Congress concluded its business for the year.Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges all won funding increases in the final education budget bill for fiscal year 2000. HBCUs got a last-minute bonus when the […]December 22, 1999HomeSeparating Reality from MythSeparating Reality from Myth Dear Editor:Even though Ms. Julianne Malveaux in her article “Fall Follies, Myths and Statues” (see Black Issues, Oct. 28, 1999), ignores the positive in the achievement of Columbus, can one really state that the world is a worse place for his discovery? Has not America evolved into the model against which […]December 22, 1999Previous PagePage 404 of 431Next Page
