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Leadership & Policy

Knowing the Real Score: Football vs. Mississippi Education

In fall 1993, while discussing a program for Sunday morning service in our church in Oxford, Miss., a committee member, after looking at her calendar, stated that Sunday would not be a good day for the program because Ole Miss was playing a home football game that weekend. Little did I know at that time how prophetic that statement was. Football is a religion in Mississippi.

Grants & Awards

Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.

Leadership & Policy

Career CONSULTANTS

I am considering accepting my first president’s job. What things should I consider before I accept it? Does it matter whether I start at an HBCU or a traditionally White institution?

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Faculty & Staff

BIG Black Issues Quiz

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Going for the Gold – annual football game

With football and fun, HBCUs take a classic approach to recruitment and fund raising efforts

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS – race education

For years, I’ve been teaching course in which the issue of race was virtually irrelevant. Recently, I’ve developed an interest in working the matter of race and culture into my course, but I fear that by doing so, I’ll be marginalized by colleagues on the faculty. Should I even bother, and if I do, how should I handle it?

New Congressional Black Caucus Leader Pledges Support for Education

Education, affirmative action, and an enhanced role for African American lawmakers are all on the agenda of Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), elected last month as the new leader of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) for 1999.

Faculty & Staff

Professional APPOINTMENTS

FISK UNIVERSITY NAMES NEW LEADER

Grants & Awards

Clark Atlanta University has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to support the establishment of a Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Institute.

Black News Execs Question Florida University Classification Plan

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Editors and publishers of Black newspapers from across the state questioned University of Florida System Chancellor Adam Herbert about a proposal that would group Florida A&M University with the state’s three smallest campuses under the heading “Comprehensive Universities.”

HBCUs in America’s high-tech future – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

By the year 2010, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), this country will need to produce 11,000 Ph.D.s in engineering and science annually. Concurrently, the annual Ph.D. shortfall could be about 9,600 by the year 2000.

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