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Conference: Complex Picture Painted of HBCU Challenges

While some leaders during a national conference Wednesday depicted public HBCUs as lagging from unequal treatment, there was tough talk from officials urging HBCUs to improve their ability to take advantage of federal opportunities.

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FAMU E-mails Detail Hazing Warnings

Hundreds of pages of records show years of repeated warnings about brutal hazing passed without any serious response from the school’s leadership until last November’s beating death of drum major Robert Champion.

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Conference: Though HBCUs Urged To Tout Successes, Lack of Federal Support Remains a Challenge

The Hampton University president says that, although President Obama is an “ardent supporter of HBCUs,” the federal government continues to shortchange HBCUs when it comes to grant funding.

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Commentary: Probing the Comparison – Trayvon Martin/Mass Incarceration and Emmett Till/Segregation

A historian writes that placing rage in historical context is what comparisons between responses to Trayvon Martin’s death and that of Emmett Till’s show.

Dr. Ibram H. Rogers

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Commentary: Women’s Colleges, HBCUs Have Nurtured the Best and the Brightest

Researchers have empirically demonstrated that children’s health outcomes, social standing and educational achievement can all be traced to the mother’s successes and aspirations.

Pamela Trotman Reid

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Professional Institute Emphasizes Fundraising Basics for Public HBCUs

Universities that launch successful fundraising campaigns do more than just pick a financial goal, a University of Miami executive told conference attendees on Monday at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Member Universities Professional Institute.

Sergio Gonzalez

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FAMU Provost Steps Down

Dr. Larry Robinson, who returned to FAMU last November as professor and special assistant to the president after a brief stint with the Obama Administration, immediately replaces Dr. Cynthia Hughes Harris as provost.

Dr.Cynthia Hughes Harris

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Exploring Civil Rights History over Spring Break

Dozens of college students traveled to Alabama this week to participate in the annual commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” organized by the National Action Network and other civil rights and labor groups.

Lindsey Lunsford

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South Carolina State President George Cooper Resigning at End of Month

The embattled president of South Carolina State University, Dr. George Cooper, is resigning at the end of the month.

Dr. George Cooper

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Chronicling the Life and Career of a Higher Education Giant — Norman Francis

In this unique series, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education honors the life and career of Xavier University of Louisiana President Norman Francis. For more than four decades, Francis has led the private, historically Black, New Orleans-based university to exemplary accomplishment and achievement. Diverse recounts the challenges Francis faced and triumphs that are credited to his leadership. Please read and join the discussions at the end of each story in the series. ENDPARAGRAPH

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Julianne Malveaux To Step Down as Bennett College President in May

President of Bennett College since 2007, Malveaux announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as the school’s chief executive on May 6.

Julianne Malveaux

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Public University Association, NASA Host Minority Male STEM Symposium

Experts on Tuesday say success of higher education STEM programs targeting minority men may depend heavily on enhancing the promise of financial success in STEM employment.

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