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Perspectives: No Threat of Changing Enrollments at HBCUs

HBCUs are responsible for more than a fifth of current bachelor’s degrees granted to Blacks. With such documented successes these schools are in no danger of ceasing to exist. However, the newest concern is that increases in White enrollments will cause HBCUs to lose their “cultural identity,” and their historical significance to the Black community.

Proposal Seeks to Improve America’s Image Abroad

Legislation would lessen financial barriers that prevent low-income, minority students from participating in foreign exchange programs.

Congressional Proposal Seeks to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Legislation would lessen financial barriers that prevent low-income, minority students from participating in foreign exchange programs.

Music to Our Ears

“Minority” and “orchestra musicians” are not words you see often in the same sentence, much less spoken, but the Sphinx Organization is becoming a major player in changing the face of classical music.

Leadership & Policy

Presidential Memoirs

A conversation with outgoing Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy C. Yancy

Promoting International Interest

A commitment to preparation combined with a long-serving adviser propelled one HBCU to become the all-time leader in producing Black Fulbright students.

Creating an Atmosphere of Acceptance

When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.

African-American

Black Colleges Still Lacking Ph.D. African-American Studies Program

As African-American studies disciplinarians celebrate the expansion and 20-year anniversary of African American doctoral studies this year, some are wondering when there will be a similar development at historically Black colleges and universities.

Andrew Carnegie and Race

A financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.

Leadership & Policy

It’s All About Degrees Conferred

College rankings have always been a bit controversial, but over the last year debates over such lists, particularly U.S. News’ rankings, have really heated up.

Feds Fund Three Types of Minority-serving Institutions

Under new education department programs, money for eligible colleges and universities is up for grabs.

‘Creating an Atmosphere Of Acceptance’

When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.

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