Black IssuesStudentsThe Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusThe Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]May 5, 2004SportsFunding Shortages Push Back Central State Football ProgramFunding Shortages Push Back Central State Football ProgramXENIA, OhioFunding issues forced the delay of the return of Ohio’s Central State University Marauder football program, according to a report in the Dayton Daily News. A fall 2004 comeback was highly anticipated at the historically Black school located in Xenia, Ohio, but approximately $600,000 is needed to […]May 5, 2004HomeHampton University Visiting Professor Wins Pulitzer PrizeHampton University Visiting Professor Wins Pulitzer PrizeHAMPTON, Va.Leonard Pitts, 2004 Scripps Howard Visiting Professional at Hampton University and syndicated columnist, has been awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Pitts won the prize for columns he wrote for the Miami Herald in 2003. The Pulitzers, which are awarded by Columbia University, are considered journalism’s top […]May 5, 2004African-AmericanArkansas State University Group Traces Graves at CemeteriesArkansas State University Group Traces Graves at CemeteriesTULOT, Ark.Descendants of Black sharecroppers in Poinsett County are attempting to get two cemeteries listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Dr. Julie Morrow, archaeologist at the Arkansas State University-Jonesboro station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, and eight of her archaeology and geology students traced grave sites at […]May 5, 2004Community CollegesReport: Higher Education Fiscal Crisis Hardest on Hispanic, Low-Income StudentsReport: Higher Education Fiscal Crisis Hardest on Hispanic, Low-Income StudentsWASHINGTONLow-income and Hispanic students are faring worst amid the financial fix gripping American higher education, according to a report by Dr. Eduardo Padrón, president of Florida’s Miami Dade College. The report, “A Deficit of Understanding: Confronting the Funding Crisis in Higher Education and the Threat to […]May 5, 2004HomeSouth Dakota College Students Translate State Brochures Into SpanishSouth Dakota College Students Translate State Brochures Into SpanishSIOUX FALLS, S.D.University of South Dakota students in a Spanish class put their language skills to the test in a project to help the state’s growing Spanish-speaking population learn about public services.Students in the Spanish Advanced Conversation class translated into Spanish nearly 70 brochures, pamphlets and forms […]May 5, 2004Leadership & PolicyFalse Transcripts Add to Southern University Grade-Changing ScandalFalse Transcripts Add to Southern University Grade-Changing ScandalBATON ROUGE, La.A Southern University assistant registrar who sold grade changes for cash also allegedly manufactured entire academic transcripts for people who never enrolled on the Baton Rouge campus, according to an internal investigative report obtained by Black Issues In Higher Education. In an internal report, campus auditors […]May 5, 2004Community CollegesGlobal Trade Could Hinder Higher Education, Report SaysGlobal Trade Could Hinder Higher Education, Report SaysAccording to a new report, some U.S. higher education officials are worried that international trade agreements could commercialize education and have a negative impact on the higher education community as a whole, community colleges and four-year institutions alike. The lines are blurred, they say, and many educators are […]May 5, 2004StudentsLawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesLawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesBy Garry BoulardA long-simmering, trans-regional dispute is pitting mostly Southern and Western Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives against their Republican and Democratic counterparts from the East over the way campus-based federal aid is distributed.Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on […]May 5, 2004Home‘You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide’‘You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide’It is no surprise that college campuses, as microcosms of society, have become prey to the increased violence in our world. However, it is extremely disturbing to hear the stories of young students attacked, assaulted, raped, and even killed while matriculating at institutions of higher learning, once considered one […]May 5, 2004Previous PagePage 79 of 431Next Page
