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Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
HBCUs
NAFEO signs new technology partner – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. In a development that is expected to bring the latest and most advanced information technology to the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), an Atlanta-based technology company and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) have formed an alliance to make it easier for the schools to acquire technology.
Leadership & Policy
Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills
Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?
Sports
Clinton’s race initiative on tour: sports was focus of the latest national town hall meeting – includes related article on higher education
Sports provided the focus of President Bill Clinton’s second town hall meeting on race relations in America. Clinton and leading collegiate and professional sports figures participated in a lively meeting and discussion, which was held at the University of Houston on April 14, 1998. The televised forum was entitled, “Race & Sports; Running in Place?”
Sports
In sports, those making the off-the field decision remain overwhelmingly White – Coaches Cornered: The 1997 Racial Report Card
With so many Black athletes claiming center stage in the sports universe, one might be inclined to declare that athletics is the one slice of American life where equal opportunity abounds. Some might even say that sports represent a model of ethnic diversity that should be admired and emulated by all.
Sports
Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
HBCUs
Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story
The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University’s undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in physics there in 1876.
Students
Washington UPDATE
ED Backs Continued Default-Rate Exemption for HBCUs
Faculty & Staff
Charting a Black research agenda – interview with H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University – Cover Story – Interview
President H. Patrick Swygert, 54, assumed the helm of the nation’s only historically Black Research I institution in 1995. Since his arrival at Howard University, he has been crafting a strategy to carry the institution into the twenty-first century on a more stable financial footing, from which it will be poised to lead the nation in shaping and implementing the academic and research agenda for African Americans in the next millennium.
Faculty & Staff
Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University
When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.
Latinx
HBCUs, HSIs at odds over Title III criteria – aid in doubt at Hispanic and Black-serving educational institutions
The Clinton adminstration is touting a new Hispanic Initiative that targets both students and colleges, and may leave some tough decisions for congressional leaders and educators of color.
Students
Through these eyes – photographs of P.H. Polk – Illustration
From 1939 until his death in 1984, Prentice Herman Polk taught It photography at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and was the official Campus Photographer. In 1933, he became chair of the university’s photography department. Polk owned one of Macon County, Alabama’s few private photography Studios and became a renowned portrait photographer.
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