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The Stories Behind the Numbers

The Stories Behind the Numbers: Black Issues Salutes Outstanding Members of the Class 20001Christine Lincoln, left, is congratulated by a fellow graduate after accepting the Sophie Kerr award during commencement exercises at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. Lincoln received the $53,266 award for being the graduating senior with the best ability and promise for future […]

Minority Convocations Lend Cultural Flavor to Celebration

Minority Convocations Lend Cultural Flavor to CelebrationPHOENIX — When Alejandro Contreras graduated last month from Arizona State University, he was thinking about his migrant-worker parents’ mud-caked shoes.“You see our shoes?” Contreras remembers his tired mother saying after returning from a long day in the lettuce fields. “They are all muddy when we come home. Look […]

Emerson College Course to Explore Web of Hate

Emerson College Course to Explore Web of HateBOSTON — An image of a slain gay man burns in hell on one. The “FBI” has declared war on White Christians on another. A third pretends to pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr., then suggests the civil rights leader was a sex fiend, a communist and […]

Faculty & Staff

BI News Briefs

Despite Outreach Efforts, UC Schools See Low Minority EnrollmentLOS ANGELES — Black and Hispanic enrollment at the Universities of California has not increased significantly despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the outreach programs that replaced affirmative action. Over the past five years, the percentage of Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians who enrolled at […]

New Legislation Could Bring Major Money to Minority Schools

New Legislation Could Bring Major Money to Minority SchoolsWASHINGTON — In their rush to wrap up action in an election year, congressional leaders are proposing major funding increases for minority-serving colleges and universities next year.Historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges all are due for major increases under new legislation being developed in the […]

Due Process: Florida A&M, Florida International Finally Get Law Schools

Due Process: Florida A&M, Florida International Finally Get Law SchoolsTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Two months ago, more than 11,000 angry protesters marched here on Florida’s Capitol to protest Gov. Jeb Bush’s plan to end affirmative action in university admissions and state contracting.Now the Florida governor is poised to sign legislation that would create two new law […]

African-American

BI News Briefs

Morgan State Blocks Competing Doctoral ProgramsBALTIMORE — New doctoral programs at Baltimore-area public universities have been put on hold at the urging of Morgan State University officials, prompting critics to claim the school is using its historically Black status to block competition from other schools. The first doctoral programs at Towson University and the University […]

Washington Briefs

Clinton Initiative Would Improve Access to ServicesWASHINGTON — A new initiative from the Clinton administration and several members of Congress may benefit Black colleges, two-year institutions and students of color in high-poverty areas of the South.The president’s New Markets initiative seeks to promote economic development and community improvements in several high-poverty areas nationwide. Following the […]

Survey Reveals Black, Hispanic Parents Place High Value on College

Survey Reveals Black, Hispanic Parents Place High Value on CollegeWASHINGTON — Compared to White parents, a greater number of African American and Hispanic parents recognize the value of sending a child to college, new national research says.Data from Public Agenda and the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement says nearly two-thirds of Hispanic parents surveyed say […]

The Black And Brown Value of a Higher Education

The Black And Brown Value of a Higher EducationAccording to a recent survey, more Black and Hispanic parents cite a college education as being a requirement for success than do White parents (see story next page).Though the assessment made headlines across the country, somehow, its findings just aren’t surprising to me. Parents of every hue […]

African-American

UVA Gets Grant to Revamp Black Studies

UVA Gets Grant to Revamp Black StudiesThe Ford Foundation just gave the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies a $250,000 grant to revamp its program. With help from Ford, five outside consultants and more than 30 university faculty from 12 departments are participating in the redesign of the […]

African American Studies

African American StudiesFive minutes on the World Wide Web makes the point more plainly than a full weekend with a stack of college catalogs: There are as many types of African American Studies programs as there are institutions of higher learning offering them.Some programs — like those at California State University-Long Beach and Cornell University […]

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