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Black coaches convention focuses on job-hunting strategies; collegiate athletic directors, sensitized to concerns, participate in interview clinics

Concerned about the paucity of Black coaches and athletics administrators on college campuses, the Black Coaches Association (BCA) devoted a major portion of its annual conference, held last month in Miami, to helping its members prepare and successfully compete for positions in higher education.

Students

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

African-American

Holding on to African American history

For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.

HBCUs

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

When Emma Bradford Perry arrived at Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge from Harvard four years ago to head up that school’s library, the first thing she did close the card catalog.

Sports

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

Students

Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

Forty-three years have passed since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated the nation’s public schools, yet America’s war over equal educational opportunities continues to rage. And the most heated battles in recent years have centered around access to education at the postsecondary level.

Students

An open letter – Black colleges

This is excerpted from an open letter sent by Alvin Chambliss Jr., Esquire, of Texas Southern University, to Dr. Elias Blake Jr., executive director, Benjamin E. Mays Institute, concerning historically Black colleges and universities.

Students

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas While the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have experienced a decline in minority applicants because of the Hopwood ruling, officials at Stephen F. Austin State University in eastern Texas anticipate an increase in minority enrollment this fall.

Sports

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

Students

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.

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HBCUs: Page 234

Black coaches convention focuses on job-hunting strategies; collegiate athletic directors, sensitized to concerns, participate in interview clinics

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

Holding on to African American history

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

An open letter – Black colleges

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

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

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

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