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HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation Field

HBCUs Work to Diversify Aviation FieldHAMPTON, VA. Less than 2 percent of the nation’s 75,000 working commercial pilots are minorities, according to a report by the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, and women accounted for only 4 percent of pilots during 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration reports.To combat this disparity, five historically Black colleges — […]

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Faculty Salaries Not to Blame for Tuition Increases, Report Says

Faculty Salaries Not to Blame for Tuition Increases, Report SaysBy Patricia TroumpoucisIncreases in average faculty salaries are at their lowest point in more than 30 years, according to an annual faculty salary survey by the American Association of University Professors. Faculty-salary increases are generally thought to be the driving force behind tuition increases, the report […]

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Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions

Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions“The Blacker the College the Sweeter the Knowledge,” is a common saying heard among students who attend Black institutions, as well as many proud alumni. These institutions have, from their inception, served a unique mission in educating the masses of Black folk, thus creating the Black middle class. They have done […]

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Who’s Playin’ Whom?

Who’s Playin’ Whom?Overwhelming influence of hip-hop culture, rap music on HBCU campuses concerns students, faculty By Pearl StewartIn December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article in Black Issues titled “The Miseducation of Hip-Hop,” Midgette didn’t hold back: […]

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]

Training for the Ph.D.

Training for the Ph.D.National conference brings together first-generation college students on the road to a doctoral degreeBy Cassie ChewCOLLEGE PARK, Md.From as early as the third grade, Kimberly Sellers knew she wanted to earn a doctoral degree. So year after year, when her father brought home the issue of Black Issues In Higher Education listing […]

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Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in Academia

Faculty Members Weigh In on the Gender Divide in AcademiaIn 2001, a roundtable on gender disparities for female professors in higher education was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The focus of the roundtable was “how best to ensure women professors experience the same opportunities, recognition and rewards as their male counterparts.” Some three […]

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Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of Color

Faculty Science Positions Continue to Elude Women of ColorOklahoma professor’s study finds hiring, tenure remain stumbling blocksWomen and underrepresented minorities are receiving the doctorate in record numbers these days. For example, women got 45 percent and minorities 19 percent of the 39,955 doctoral degrees awarded in 2000, and both figures were all-time highs.So it comes […]

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On the Right Path

On the Right PathMillersville president’s personal commitment to minority student recruitment, retention brings her to historic post.By Erv Dyer At 150 years old, Millersville University is still making history. One of its defining moments came just one year ago when Dr. Francine McNairy was appointed as the first Black and first female president of the […]

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Still Having Her Say

Still Having Her Say More than a decade after becoming a household name, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier holds true to her beliefs, principles. By Ronald RoachThat Lani Guinier is one of the most publicly visible and outspoken scholars in the American academy should not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed her […]

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Howard University Engineers Success

Howard University Engineers SuccessInterdisciplinary study keeps the university on the cutting edgeBY CASSIE M. CHEWLess than three months before graduation, Howard University engineering student Artis Johnson is displaying signs of “senoritis.” As he completes the coursework toward his bachelor’s degree in systems and computer science, he can’t keep his thoughts off of graduation day or that […]

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Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War

Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922–1963.By Dr. Kate A. Baldwin Duke University Press, Nov. 2002346 pp. $59.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2976-X$19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8223-2990-5Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American […]

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