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Faculty & Staff

Creating a powerhouse: compensation research perks sweeten pot in high-stakes competition for scholars

For the past 24 years Dr. Ron Walters has been a fixture at Howard University. The tenured chairman of the university’s political science department is widely respected in the academic community and is one of an elite group of national scholars who are considered “public intellectuals.”

Test-driven admissions: ETS responds to criticisms of SATs – Educational Testing Service

After decades of criticism that standardized testing is culturally biased, officials from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) say they have made great strides in eliminating those biases.

Faculty & Staff

Mississippi Valley State president Lester Newman resigns

ITTA BENA, Miss. Mississippi Valley State University President Lester C. Newman announced his resignation Friday after serving nearly nine years as leader of the historically Black college.

Leadership & Policy

Accrediting group gives Florida A&M ultimatum for accounting woes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida A&M University has six months to clean up its troubled financial situation or could lose its accreditation, one of the nation’s top college associations said Friday.

Michigan’s Only HBCU Likely to Lose Accreditation

DETROIT Lewis College of Business, the only historically Black college in Michigan, has been given a one-month extension before its accreditation is removed by the Higher Learning Commission. The college’s original deadline was June 30.

Taking stock and refocusing: foundations forcing shifts in educational priorities

Atlanta Foundations have a long history of support for American higher education. But as foundations re-focus and shift their priorities, new trends in philanthropic giving are challenging colleges and universities to examine their ability to attract funding.

Faculty & Staff

Minority businesses collaborate with HBCUs to develop new technologies – Federal Government Encouraging HBCU-minority business alliance – historically Black colleges and universities

When Veatronics Corporation needed engineering expertise to develop a highly advanced fetal monitor last year, it turned to North Carolina A&T State University for help.

Leadership & Policy

The HBCU presidential pressure cooker – historically Black colleges and universities

Faced with hostile legislatures, growing enrollments, and shrinking budgets, the presidents of many historically Black colleges and universities are also under increasing pressure from their boards of trustees to perform “satisfactorily” or get out.

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Reauthorization On the Horizon

Federal spending for HBCUs is up: agencies from the CIA to the Veterans Administration increase grants, fellowships and gifts – historically black colleges and universities, Central Intelligence Agency

Federal grant, training and recruiting spending directed at historically Black colleges and universities jumped by 21 percent in a two-year, period, according to government figures in a soon-to-be released report.

Fresh scoop: new-style public journalism takes reporting to a new level of activism

When Dr. Louise Reid Ritchie worked as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, she also coordinated a community service project at the newspaper called the Gift of Reading, which was responsible for collecting and distributing more than 500,000 books to underprivileged children in Detroit. Ritchie said she “tutored kids and wrote articles soliciting books and supplies for area schools from readers.”

Spending bill would freeze funds for HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

Historically Black colleges and universities would receive the same amount of federal funding in 1997 that they received this year under legislation proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.

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