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UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]

African-American

Challenging the Future of Black Studies

Challenging the Future of Black StudiesScholars debate and discover ‘profound generation gap’ at conferenceBy Kendra Hamilton NEW YORKWhile hundreds of Black scholars from across the nation were making plans to converge on New York City last month for what promised to be one of the landmark conferences of the year — “The State of Black […]

Asian American Pacific Islander

Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ Identities

Life Experiences Color Online Classmates’ IdentitiesBy Lydia Lum The words “race blind” literally took on a new meaning when I enrolled in an online class. Gone were the labels I had used so often, like reaching for a TV remote control. Black and White. Asian. Multiracial. So it wasn’t surprising that race crossed my mind […]

Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing

Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing But there are perils in ignoring developments in the rising field, scholars sayBy Ronald RoachNot long after her appointment as Hampton University’s first chief information officer in 1999, Debra S. White, a former IBM executive, found that in addition to managing a campus IT network upgrade she had to […]

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Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts

Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University’s Black Students Association unveiled its long-awaited “The Black Guide to Life at Harvard” last month during an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American Studies department. The 322-page guide is the first comprehensive publication on resources for Black students, containing a history of Blacks […]

Congress, Bush Finally Agree on 2003 Budget

Congress, Bush Finally Agree on 2003 BudgetMinority-serving institutions, TRIO, GEAR UP receive slight increasesBy Charles Dervarics After months of negotiations, the U.S. Congress and the White House finished work on a 2003 budget bill with a 5 percent increase for Black colleges and slightly higher Pell grants for needy students. Approval of the package ends […]

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek Change

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek ChangeBy Charles Dervarics In an effort to promote mutual goals, leaders of Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges are endorsing an ambitious agenda that includes a doubling of the maximum Pell grant and new incentives to promote student enrollment in math, science, teaching and other high-demand specialties. With […]

Faculty & Staff

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]

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Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions * From “Closing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative Action”Rates of admission for minority applicants at Texas’ flagship institutions fell sharply after the ban on affirmative action. For African Americans applying to Texas A&M University, the probability of admission fell from 74.9 […]

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action World

Living in a Post-Affirmative Action WorldRuling against Michigan could boost minority achievement, says one scholar. But others are not so optimistic. By Ronald Roach Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on the constitutionality of the University of Michigan’s undergraduate and law school admissions plans, Americans already are living in a post-affirmative […]

Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few Gains

Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few GainsMany student aid programs face funding freezeBy Charles Dervarics The Bush administration is proposing a funding freeze for many student aid programs next year while cutting a variety of K-12 initiatives, including several projects to promote school reform. The top Pell grant for needy students would remain unchanged at […]

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway Computers

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]

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