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Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Extends Reach To High School Students
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Extends Reach To High School Students NEW YORKThe Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF), an advocate for public Black colleges and universities, is extending its reach to high school students with a $4.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant, announced last month, will be used to develop […]
Leadership & Policy
Universities, Students Show Support for Morris Brown College
Universities, Students Show Support for Morris Brown CollegeATLANTAThe Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has received approximately 60 letters asking its board members to give Morris Brown College more time to fix its problems, says the association’s executive director, Dr. James T. Rogers. SACS revoked Morris Brown’s accreditation two months ago because of financial problems, […]
Latinx
Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts
Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts By Charles Dervarics The four-month stalemate on a 2003 federal education budget could leave many higher education programs at risk of across-the-board budget cuts. Many programs would face an immediate 2.9 percent across-the-board spending cut if a plan from Senate Republican leaders becomes law. That’s because of […]
HBCUs
Bush Budget Will Have Small Increase for HBCUs
Bush Budget Will Have Small Increase for HBCUsBy Charles Dervarics President Bush will propose a 5 percent increase for historically Black and Hispanic-serving colleges in his 2004 budget plan in February. The White House made the announcement on the weekend of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, noting that the president has a five-year commitment […]
Leadership & Policy
Dillard University and All That Jazz
Dillard University and All That Jazz New Orleans-based HBCU seeks to set itself apart with creation of new jazz institute, orchestra By Kendra Hamilton The notion simply didn’t compute: New Orleans — the birthplace of jazz; producer of jazz greats from Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong to the Marsalis clan; perhaps the only city in […]
Faculty & Staff
Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership
Developing Faculty For Academic Leadership By Dr. S. Keith Hargrove There are many challenges confronting higher education in the 21st century. These challenges range from cyclical state and federal support, legislative oversight and accountability to a changing student population and the need for more effective leadership in academia. One key to addressing these and many […]
HBCUs
NAFEO Unveils Technology Division to Assist HBCUs
NAFEO Unveils Technology Division to Assist HBCUsFormer FAMU administrator leads association’s IT effortsBy Ronald Roach Since last August, Sterlin Adams has worked quietly behind the scenes to build an information technology program at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO). A former administrator who has worked with NAFEO president and CEO Dr. […]
HBCUs
Mississippi’s Crusading Gadfly
Mississippi’s Crusading GadflyWhile others maintain the fight is over, attorney Alvin Chambliss continues to breathe life into Mississippi’s famed college desegregation case. By B. Denise Hawkins HOUSTONAttorney Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. says that as long as the Ayers v. Fordice case is alive, there’s hope for Mississippi’s three historically Black universities and for the liberation […]
HBCUs
New Education Department Office To Support Innovation
New Education Department Office To Support InnovationBy Charles Dervarics The U.S. Department of Education is creating an Office of Innovation to become the “entrepreneurial” arm of the agency, promoting new ideas and strategies. Nina Rees, former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, will be deputy secretary in charge of the Office of Innovation and Improvement. […]
Leadership & Policy
Our Raison D’être
Our Raison D’être This particular edition hits on the complex and often painful issue of race. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois said almost 100 years ago upon the publication of The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” And it looks like the same will be true […]
Leadership & Policy
More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows
More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows WASHINGTONThe rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as college presidents slowed during the past three years according to The American College President: 2002 Edition, the results of a new survey of college presidents released last month by the American Council […]
HBCUs
Report Details College Choice Process For Black Students
Report Details College Choice Process For Black Students ALEXANDRIA, Va.A new report highlights the unique information needs of Black students applying to college and offers suggestions on how schools and school districts can meet those needs. Released by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), the study seeks to improve information delivery about postsecondary […]
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