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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 […]

Faculty & Staff

Department, Program, Institute or Other?

Department, Program, Institute or Other?When officials at the Alabama Commission on Higher Education announced in February that they would not approve a Black Studies major at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, it was a slap in the face to university officials and students who say they have been fighting since desegregation to bring the […]

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM

SPECTRUM The old-style Black Studies discipline has refracted into a rainbow of African American research.In some ways, the state of the African American Studies discipline has never been healthier. According to the National Council for Black Studies, four schools currently offer doctoral studies in the discipline. That list doesn’t include Harvard University, which announced plans […]

African-American

The Changing Face of Philanthropy

The Changing Face of PhilanthropyWhere the color line yields to the bottom lineATLANTA — Just before the winter holiday break, a group of 70 Black professionals gathered here at the Georgia Institute of Technology for a reception. They nibbled hors d’oeuvres and traded business cards as a jazz group played in the background. Even after […]

Publish or Perish: The Saga of an Assimilation Essay

Publish or Perish: The Saga of an Assimilation EssayMy failure to motivate a student to publish a significant essay some 17 years ago continues to haunt me. In October of 1983, I passed back the first set of freshman papers with my usual comments. In those days, I would face my students squarely and shout, […]

Native Americans

California’s Minority Enrollment Is Up , But That’s Only Part of the Story

California’s Minority Enrollment Is Up , But That’s Only Part of the StoryBERKELEY, Calif. — The number of Black and Hispanic freshmen admitted to the University of California system has rebounded to the level it was when race and gender preferences were still in place.However, much of the recovery is because more Blacks and Hispanics […]

News Briefs

One Florida Plan Meets More OppositionTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have voted to issue a statement criticizing Gov. Jeb Bush’s program banning consideration of race and gender in university admissions and contracting decisions. The federal panel voted 6-2 to approve the statement earlier this month, says commission spokesman David […]

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