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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Native Americans

Tribal Colleges Receive Department of Defense Funds

Tribal Colleges Receive Department of Defense FundsBy Charles Dervarics Thirteen tribal colleges will gain new funds from the Pentagon under a program designed for Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions. The 13 colleges will receive $3.3 million under the Department of Defense’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions Infrastructure Support Program, which is […]

Ensuring Financial Stability of HBCUs In the 21st Century

Ensuring Financial Stability of HBCUs In the 21st CenturyBy Dr. Walter A. Brown and Darryl E. Allen To prepare for financial stability in the 21st century, administrators at historically Black colleges and universities must identify critical issues that will have financial implications in providing quality education to African American students. Some of those issues involve […]

HBCU Preservation Bill Dies in Congress

HBCU Preservation Bill Dies in CongressBy Charles Dervarics Despite a flurry of last-minute activity that raised the hopes of Black college leaders, Congress in late November fell short in a final attempt to approve an HBCU historic building preservation bill before lawmakers adjourned for 2002. In a complex series of negotiations in the waning days […]

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