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Charting journalism degrees
The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.
HBCUs
Four Black Colleges Receive $400 Million in Federal Katrina Recovery Loans
NEW ORLEANS Four historically black colleges three in New Orleans and one in Mississippi are getting almost $400 million in ultra-low-interest federal loans to recover from Hurricane Katrina’s destruction.
HBCUs
The top 100: graduate and professional schools – part two; includes listing of postsecondary institutes that graduate the most minority students
This is the second half of Black Issues In Higher Education’s annual “Top 100” rankings of postsecondary institutions that graduate the most minority students. Part I ranked schools that grant baccalaureate degrees (see July 9, 1998 edition). This edition ranks graduate and professional schools.
HBCUs
Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment
JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.
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The top 100: interpreting the data – students of color
For the seventh consecutive year, the publishers of Black Issues have asked me to to produce lists of the institutions that confer the largest number of degrees to students of color in the United States. These simple lists are presented with the objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.
HBCUs
The surging degree wave
As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.
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
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