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Testing Your Diversity Knowledge

Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative Action Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from […]

Expanding The Top Tier

Expanding The Top Tier College Board calls for ‘affirmative development’ to enlarge pool of high-achieving students of colorNEW YORK — Although considerable national efforts have been directed at bringing poor students and students of color up to minimal standards academically, little effort has been focused towards ensuring that African American, Latino, and Native American children […]

BI What’s New

The University of Missouri-Columbia has instituted a new Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative designed to recruit and train underrepresented minority graduate students as researchers. The initiative is being funded by a four-year, $1.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.The program will provide fellowships for 20 non-degree graduate students, 20 graduate research assistants and […]

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

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BI News Briefs

Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student UnionJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Black students at the University of North Florida rallied for the preservation of the African American Student Union after a student government agency decided the organization was unconstitutional.The decision last month to dissolve the African American Student Union was made by a […]

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks PromisingWASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall.HBCUs in 1997 received less than 1 percent of all higher […]

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr. has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned […]

BI News Brief

Minority Enrollment Continues to Drop at California Medical SchoolsOAKLAND, Calif. — University of California officials have appointed a task force to investigate why minority enrollment is dropping at the system’s five medical schools. In 1993, 103 Black and Mexican American students enrolled at University of California medical schools. This fall, the total was 59. That […]

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’s

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’sWASHINGTON — Amid predictions of a federal budget meltdown, historically Black colleges and universities and sponsors of college access programs got a little bit of good news from the U.S. Senate this month.In its most definitive statement yet on the year 2000 education budget, Senate leaders came […]

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Learning From Wilt And Milt

Learning From Wilt And MiltI was among those stunned earlier this month at the news that basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain and jazz legend Milt Jackson had died within days of each other. Chamberlain’s giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoring were […]

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New Views on Malcolm X

New Views on Malcolm XFrom a 1941 letter to friend Zelma Holman in Michigan, written from Boston by 16-year-old Malcolm —Dearest Zel,Sorry I haven’t gotten around to writing you sooner but I have been very busy. You know how we traveling men are. How is everything in Jackson. Boston’s fine. The place is really jumpin’ […]

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Rethinking Malcolm X

Rethinking Malcolm XATLANTA — Early writings by Malcolm X went on public display for the first time at Emory University here last month, offering a new glimpse of the fiery orator who advocated Black nationalism and raised government suspicion. The papers, which could alter Americans’ perceptions of Malcolm X, are the only known collection of […]

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Raising the Bar for Middle-Class Blacks

Raising the Bar for Middle-Class BlacksNext month, Jenna Bond-Louden will board a plane for North Carolina where she and other college seniors will spend all day learning to write a college essay that will wow admissions officers. Her parents have already shelled out hundreds of dollars for the Baltimore senior to take SAT prep classes.There […]

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