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Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn

Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

IU Supercomputer No Longer Fastest Among College Computers

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Indiana University’s supercomputer is no longer the fastest college-owned supercomputer

University of North Dakota defenseman excited about NHL deal

FARGO N.D. Brian Lee says it was not an easy decision to sign with the NHL instead of returning to play hockey at the University of North Dakota. But he’s happy with his choice.

New Mexico Highlands University break-in prompts identity theft concern

LAS VEGAS N.M. New Mexico Highlands University has alerted 420 students that they could be the targets of identity theft after a break-in at a building on campus.

Faculty & Staff

The physician, the professor and the politico – candidates for the presidency of Spelman College – Cover Story

ATLANTA For Spelman College student Toria Davis, just the thought of getting a new campus president with ties to the White House speaks volumes about the search to replace Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. “It’s an honor just to think someone who’s so important would be interested in coming to Spelman,” said Davis after learning that […]

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African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

The promise and the peril – African American colleges and universities’ hotel and conference center ownership

Filling the Black Hotel & Conference Center Ownership Void: Tuskegee Has High Hopes; Clarke Atlanta Moves Slowly; Howard Throws in the Towel!

Following the leaders – the establishment of Leadership Development Centers in historically Black colleges and universities

Leadership Development Becomes Priority for Many Institutions

Faculty & Staff

From the ivory tower to the White House … and back again – African American public servants who came from, and came back, to the academe – Cover Story

Shortly after resigning as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in February 1995, Christopher Edley Jr. prepared to resume teaching duties at Harvard Law School, where he had been tenured since 1986. But before he could leave the government, Edley was approached by White House officials who wanted him to chair a high-profile, interagency working group on affirmative action.

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