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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet HomeCongressional Black Caucus initiative leads HBCU, community college students down the road to homeownershipBy Cassie ChewWhen students graduate from college, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) wants to make sure they hold the keys to economic success. And one of those keys, the CBCF says, should unlock the door to their own home. […]

Making Statements, Staking Claims And Demanding Change

Making Statements, Staking Claims And Demanding ChangeIn this edition we take somewhat of a break from our usual features to profile one of the most anticipated arts festivals in the country — Spoleto. Assistant editor Kendra Hamilton willingly took a trip to her hometown of Charleston, S.C., earlier this summer to cover the annual event, […]

Is there a Doctorate In the House?

Is there a Doctorate In the House?In the battle to increase the numbers of African American Ph.D.s in science, technology and engineering, the nation may just have a secret weapon: historically Black colleges and universities. The statement may sound improbable. After all, only a handful of the nation’s HBCUs offer doctoral programs. And education has […]

Survey Reveals 48 Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering Schools

Survey Reveals 48 Top Supporters of HBCU Engineering Schools BALTIMOREAsecond annual survey conducted by Career Communications Group Inc. (CCG) has found that 48 companies and government agencies are considered most supportive of historically Black engineering schools.CCG asked the deans of the 10 ABET-accredited, historically Black college and university (HBCU) engineering programs; the dean of engineering […]

Slow and Steady

Slow and SteadySurmounting difficult terrain to achieve meaningful success — whether one pursues a Ph.D. or takes a leadership position at a college or university — represents an underlying theme of our annual Top 100 graduate school issue. In this year’s edition, we capture compelling portraits of both struggle and accomplishment as we present the […]

Fayetteville State Names New Chancellor

Fayetteville State Names New ChancellorFAYETTEVILLE, N.C.A new chancellor has been named at Fayetteville State University and the person filling the post will be the third woman and the first African American woman to lead a state university. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted last month to name Dr. T.J. Bryan as the […]

Bob Dole to Chair Bennett College Fund-Raising Campaign

Bob Dole to Chair Bennett College Fund-Raising CampaignGREENSBORO, N.C.Former U.S. Sen. Robert J. Dole and the historically Black women’s college Bennett might appear to be an unlikely pair. Yet, the two have joined forces recently for an ambitious fund-raising endeavor.The former presidential candidate will serve as chairman of the school’s $50 million “Revitalizing Bennett Campaign,” […]

Few Increases for Student Aid in Spending Bill

Few Increases for Student Aid in Spending BillCongress vetoes White House plans for Perkins’ cutbackStudent financial aid programs would receive few increases under a new congressional plan to fund federal education programs in 2004.The plan from a House of Representatives panel would maintain the maximum Pell Grant at the current $4,050, with no increase despite […]

Move Over, SI

Move Over, SIMinority sports magazine to debut at year’s end A new magazine focusing exclusively on issues facing Black, Hispanic and other athletes of color is set to hit the newsstands at the end of the year. “The Color of Sports can fill a significant void and have a tremendous influence on shaping the agenda […]

Baskerville Named Fifth President of NAFEO

Baskerville Named Fifth President of NAFEOSILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) late last month named Lezli Baskerville, a Washington, D.C., activist-attorney, to become the fifth president of the umbrella association of the nation’s 118 public and private, two- and four-year historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities. Baskerville had […]

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New Answers to Old Questions

New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]

Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUs

Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUsNEW YORKWorldwide educational services leader Kaplan Inc. announced it has become the exclusive K-12 partner for EDU Inc., a unique service for historically Black colleges and universities that enables students to apply to 29 member institutions through a single common application. Under the terms of […]

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