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Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What are some strategies for dealing with inter-ethnic rivalries on campus, and how can I promote more working together among various ethnic groups?A conflict does exist between different groups of color at many predominantly White colleges and universities in America. As in society at large, this conflict grows out of the competition […]

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Officials Optimistic That 2000 Census Is Better Than Ever

Officials Optimistic That 2000 Census Is Better Than EverWASHINGTON Last month, federal officials announced that the response rates for Census 2000 exceeded those of the 1990 U.S. Census by 2 percentage points, from 65 percent to 67 percent. The 2000 Census response rate also exceeded the U.S. Census Bureau’s projected rate, which was 61 percent.“Thanks […]

Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on Education

Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on EducationDemocrats Propose:n That teachers who agree to teach in a school that needs their help would get financial assistance for college tuition or student loans, or a hiring bonus for those willing to switch careers. The Democrats also advocate alternative certification so that those who choose to […]

Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race Problems

Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race ProblemsPULLMAN, Wash. Police are still trying to determine why Washington State University freshman Atuanya Priester was beaten up last month. Some witnesses told investigators that Priester, from Seattle, was jumped by 10 men; others depict a confrontation between Priester and a member of a rival fraternity.Minority […]

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training

Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training ATHENS, Ga.A University of Georgia sorority accused of evaluating a potential pledge on the basis of race will undergo sensitivity training, according to an agreement with the university. A resolution released last month says Alpha Gamma Delta and the university agreed that some sorority members “may hold […]

Black Colleges Gain Status in GEAR UP Grant Competition

Black Colleges Gain Status in GEAR UP Grant CompetitionBlack colleges fared somewhat better in the 2000 Gaining Early Access and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs grant competition than they did in the program’s inaugural competition last year.Some HBCU leaders were critical of the first grant awards under GEAR UP, a new federal program that promotes college […]

College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO Programs

College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO ProgramsWith the Clinton administration in its final months, college outreach specialists meeting in Washington in September focused on the issue of continuity — seeking to build on gains made during the past eight years regardless of which party claims the White House in November.Those attending […]

Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic Achievement

Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic AchievementOne of the things I have learned traveling across America is just how diverse Hispanic America is, something that a lot of Americans really don’t know yet. I think there is a common core of values around family and community and work and faith, but Hispanic America is growing […]

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Events

EventsOCTOBEROct. 19-22Seventh National HBCU Faculty Development Symposium“Collaborating to Build Educational Communities”Tougaloo CollegeTougaloo, Miss.Contact: HBCU Faculty Development NetworkPhone: (601) 977-7861Fax: (601) 977-6148E-mail: srozman@aol.comWeb: www.tsu.edu/hbcunetOct. 20-21Seventh Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference“Slavery and Reparation”New School UniversityNew YorkContact: J. Everet GreenPhone: (914) 574-4797E-mail: everet@aol.comNOVEMBERNov. 2-4The Education Trust, Inc., 11th Annual Conference“Seeing is Believing: Evidence that We Can Close the […]

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Africana.com Being Sold to AOL-Time Warner

Africana.com Being Sold to AOL-Time Warner In a candid 1999 interview with editors of Black Issues in Higher Education, Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. described himself as “an intellectual entrepreneur.” The term certainly applied then, because in addition to being the architect of the renowned “Dream Team” of Black scholars at Harvard, Gates had […]

Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Hispanic-Serving Institutions The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities is a national association representing Hispanic-serving institutions. HACU works to promote nonprofit, accredited colleges and universities where Hispanics constitute a minimum of 25 percent of the enrollment at either the graduate or undergraduate level, in accordance with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which […]

Analysis of White House Initiatives on Black and Hispanic Education:

Analysis of White House Initiatives on Black and Hispanic Education:White house initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic AmericansThe initiative, formed in 1994, does not focus exclusively on Hispanic-serving institutions, rather it spans education continuum. The presidential commission connected with the office, the Presidential Advisory Committee on Educational Excellence, has 24 presidentially appointed members, and the […]

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