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End In Sight For Alabama’s Decades-old College Desegregation Case

MONTGOMERY Ala. Alabama students will be able to receive financial aid from a needs-based program included in an impending settlement that would end the state’s decades-old college desegregation case, according to attorneys on the case.

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Appreciation: My Friend Earl Hayes

My friend Earl Hayes — a native of Baltimore and a tireless advocate for the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, an avid boater and a good friend to many across this great country — left us early on the morning of August 29, 2006 following a brief battle with throat and neck cancer.

Faculty & Staff

New Study: Gender Matters on Black College Campuses

NEW YORK Female faculty at public historically Black colleges seem to fare better in terms of ratings, salaries and tenure numbers when the president or chief academic officer is also female, according to a new study released Thursday by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund.

Colleges Fail to Teach Students About America’s History, Says Report

According to a study commissioned by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and conducted by the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy, seniors at some of the nation’s most respected institutions graduate knowing less about American history than they did when they arrived on campus.

Faculty & Staff

Culture and Academic Performance

U.S. Census reports remind us that Hispanics are the largest and fastest growing minority population in the United States…

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Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund for providing a full ride to Alan Newton, who was recently…

Keeping Black Poetry Alive

Thomas Sayers Ellis, assistant professor of creative writing at New York’s Sarah Lawrence College…

Grants & Awards

Baltimore City Community College has received a $14,235 grant from the Verizon Foundation to integrate computer technology into the institution’s English as a Second Language program. The National Science Foundation has awarded Hampton University (Va.) a five-year, $5 million grant to fund the Center for Laser Science and Spectroscopy, known as C.L.A.S.S. The center, based […]

Just the Stats: Solving the Hispanic-Serving Institution Riddle

One source said 209. The source in another story said 236. My editor asked me to sort it out. I’m a researcher and even I couldn’t give her a definitive answer to her question: How many Hispanic-Serving Institutions are there?

Leadership & Policy

Spellings Drops By “HBCU Week” Festivities To Tout New Grants

WASHINGTON The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities is wrapping up a conference in Washington, D.C., today commemorating “National HBCU Week.”

Faculty & Staff

The Envy of Its Peers?

The Georgia Institute of Technology: 117. North Carolina A&T State University: 145…

One on One With Spike Lee

Since the early 1980s, film director Spike Lee has made movies that entertain and educate while delving…

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