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WSSU’s New Degree in Rehabilitation Studies Is Among the First in State
WSSU’s New Degree in Rehabilitation Studies Is Among the First in State WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.When Winston-Salem State University began its new Bachelor of Science degree program in Rehabilitation Studies this month, it became one of the first of its kind in the state. WSSU undergraduate Rehabilitation Studies is a comprehensive professional assistance program to help the […]
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Penn State Joins Efforts To Research Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Penn State Joins Efforts To Research Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade University Park, Pa.The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the forced migration of approximately 12 million people, and the death of many more in war and captivity, over the course of 400 years — changed the face of the world, creating the Western Hemisphere we know […]
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Government Seeks Public Input on Higher Education Act
Government Seeks Public Input on Higher Education ActBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. Department of Education is seeking public input on the Higher Education Act and beginning to share some of its ideas about how to improve the law. The department on Dec. 20 requested public comments on issues such as Pell Grants, college work/study, TRIO […]
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Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith
Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith By Dr. Dwight A. McBride I want to take this occasion to give institutionally marginal programs and departments a much-deserved moment of recognition. I specifically want to do so for African American studies programs and departments. Though African American scholars are not always synonymous with African American […]
Students
What’s at Stake for UVa?
What’s at Stake for UVa?University president weighs in on the campus’s current racial climate and ongoing efforts to strengthen its multicultural milieu.By Kendra Hamilton The following Q&A session with the University of Virginia’s president, Dr. John T. Casteen, follows news reports that the venerable state school, which appeared to have forged a bright multicultural future […]
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The Grooming Of a Public Intellectual
The Grooming Of a Public Intellectual Lawrence P. JacksonTitle: Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Emory University, AtlantaEducation: Ph.D., English and American literature, Stanford University; M.A., English, Ohio State University; B.A., English and American Studies, Wesleyan UniversityAge: 34Dr. Lawrence Jackson admits he has always had a “a sense of urgency” about his career, […]
Students
UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past
UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.University of Virginia officials say it is time for incoming students to learn about their school’s segregated past and how to be sensitive to classmates of all backgrounds. Administration officials say they became aware of the need to do something more about race on campus after students came […]
Leadership & Policy
More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows
More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows WASHINGTONThe rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as college presidents slowed during the past three years according to The American College President: 2002 Edition, the results of a new survey of college presidents released last month by the American Council […]
Students
First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming
First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming LARAMIE, Wyo.The first historically Black fraternity at the University of Wyoming has received its charter after originally organizing on campus five years ago. Phi Beta Sigma now has seven active undergraduate members and four graduate student members, according to Clarence Neasman, president of the chapter and a […]
African-American
Decision to Stay at Harvard Is ‘Final,’ Gates Says
Decision to Stay at Harvard Is ‘Final,’ Gates Says BOSTONDr. Henry Louis Gates put an end to a widely watched academic tug of war last month, officially announcing he would remain as head of Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department rather than follow two prominent colleagues to Princeton. “This is for good,” Gates told The Associated […]
Native Americans
Tribal Colleges Receive Department of Defense Funds
Tribal Colleges Receive Department of Defense FundsBy Charles Dervarics Thirteen tribal colleges will gain new funds from the Pentagon under a program designed for Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions. The 13 colleges will receive $3.3 million under the Department of Defense’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Infrastructure Support Program, which is […]
Students
The Republican Sweep And Higher Education
The Republican Sweep And Higher Education By Julianne Malveaux A full month after the November debacle, political pundits are still deconstructing the Democrat’s embarrassing loss at the polls. While the Republican “sweep” could hardly be called a mandate (some Senate races were decided by fractions of a percentage point), the outcome is that the Republicans […]
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