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High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among Peers
High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among PeersNEW YORKA piercing new look by New York metro region high school students at race and education affirms their strong support for racially integrated schools, but cautions that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education access to quality education and resources have not been fully […]
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TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship
TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]
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Study Indicates Aggressive Treatment Helps African Americans With Diabetes, High Blood Pressure
Study Indicates Aggressive Treatment Helps African Americans With Diabetes, High Blood PressureDETROIT Data presented at ISHIB 2004, the annual congress of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, indicate that African American patients with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure benefit from aggressive use of combination high blood pressure therapy. The study, “Lotrel and Enalpril […]
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African Americans Respond Poorly to Hepatitis C Treatment
African Americans Respond Poorly to Hepatitis C TreatmentDURHAM, N.C.African Americans have a significantly lower response rate to treatment for chronic hepatitis C than non-Hispanic Whites, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers.Some African Americans — 19 percent — did respond to the drug combination of peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin. But […]
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Letters
My View From TopekaThe cover story “A View From Topeka,” in the May 20th issue of Black Issues In Higher Education rekindled memories of a childhood growing up in Topeka, Kan., during the historical events that led to Brown v. Board of Education. There are dual memories of attending a segregated elementary school with Nancy […]
Students
Looking Toward The Future
Looking Toward The Future New research helps Black sororities and fraternities consider new governing structures for the next 100 years By Paul RuffinsAmerica’s Black college-based fraternity and sorority movement is rapidly approaching two historic milestones. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. (NPHC), and 2006 marks a full century since […]
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Memoirs of Slave Who Died in Vermont To be Republished This Fall
Memoirs of Slave Who Died in Vermont To be Republished This FallBURLINGTON, Vt.The last time Jeffrey Brace saw his parents was in Africa as he headed to the river for a swim with friends. “My mother pressed me to her breast, and warned me of the dangers of the waters, for she knew no other,” […]
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Black Biography Project Opens the Pages of History
Black Biography Project Opens the Pages of HistoryBOSTON History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his former slave: Deliberately infect healthy people to boost their immunity. Although the first mass inoculation […]
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Shut Out Of the System
Shut Out Of the System As competition increases for slots at UC-Berkeley, admission offers to minority students continue to declineBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.As University of California officials announced admissions results for the fall, it appeared that increasing competition for seats at the university, rising tuition costs, and continued controversy over the role of race in […]
Leadership & Policy
NAFEO Board Cites Need to Move in ‘Another Direction’
NAFEO Board Cites Need to Move in ‘Another Direction’Humphries out; Washington-based attorney to serve as interim presidentBy Cassie ChewWASHINGTONCiting the need to “move into another direction with its leadership,” the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), at an April 26 board meeting, requested that its top officer, Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, step […]
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Disciplined Consequences of Brown
Disciplined Consequences of BrownThe desegregation that began in Clarendon, S.C., came to my hometown of Sumter back in 1965, some 11 years after the celebrated Brown decision. My sense of surprise, anxiety and anticipation when informed that I would be among the handful of students chosen to undertake this noble experiment was understandably significant.I didn’t […]
Faculty & Staff
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions“The Blacker the College the Sweeter the Knowledge,” is a common saying heard among students who attend Black institutions, as well as many proud alumni. These institutions have, from their inception, served a unique mission in educating the masses of Black folk, thus creating the Black middle class. They have done […]
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