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Calling on the Black Community’s Best and Brightest

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and BrightestI was one of those people who associate editor Robin Smiles in her article “Race Matters in Health Care” says “yawned” when the Institute of Medicine released its report recently, which documented that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care. I thought […]

Going Global

Going Global: Traditionally, the percentage of African American students who studied abroad has been low; however, university officials are looking into ways to increase those numbers.By Linda Meggett BrownInternational study abroad programs aren’t new but they are beginning to take off at historically Black colleges and universities. The challenge for these institutions is to make such […]

Conference Seeks to Empower Black Farmers, Landowners

Conference Seeks to Empower Black Farmers, LandownersTuskegee, Ala.Increasing political awareness of African American land loss was the primary focus of a recent conference held at Tuskegee University. The conference, “Shadow Lands: Empowering the African American Farmer and African American Landowner,” was sponsored by the NAACP as part of the organization’s voter empowerment agenda.According to the […]

Former Head of Work-Study Program Headed to Prison

Former Head of Work-Study Program Headed to PrisonBATON ROUGE, La.The former director of Southern University’s work-study program will spend 30 months in federal prison for engineering a kickback scheme.In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson said Eloise Blount and her accomplices used the university’s work-study program as their own “personal piggy bank” […]

General Mills, Tom Joyner Create Alliance

General Mills, Tom Joyner Create AllianceMINNEAPOLIS, Minn.An invaluable connection was made recently when General Mills Inc., maker of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Trix and Honey Nut Cheerios cereals, announced its partnership with nationally syndicated radio celebrity Tom Joyner. To launch its affiliation, the Minneapolis-based company presented a check for $600,000 to the Tom Joyner Foundation — […]

Breaking Down the Mental Barriers

Breaking Down the Mental BarriersLast August we dedicated an entire edition to international education. We received quite a bit of feedback from readers who were interested in study abroad programs and the idea of providing international experiences for students of color. Then came Sept. 11 a month later. The phones in the offices of study […]

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Jerome A. Atkins has been named vice president for academic affairs at Baltimore City Community College. Most recently Atkins was a dean at Excelsior College (N.Y.). He earned a bachelor’s from Howard University, master’s degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Purdue University and Marymount University, and a doctorate from Auburn University. […]

Going Online With V-HBCU

Going Online With V-HBCUCoalition seeks to boost presence of HBCUs in distance learningFor many higher education institutions, the establishment of online distance education courses and certificate and degree programs remains a difficult struggle despite the presence of hundreds of schools in the online sector. The task of building and maintaining a top-notch information technology infrastructure […]

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Connecting The Classroom and the Community

Connecting The Classroom and the CommunityService-learning programs allow students to apply real-world experience with classroom studyBy Phaedra Brotherton The events of Sept. 11 have been credited with awakening a desire for many to do something meaningful and give back to their communities. But for the past decade, a growing number of institutions of higher education […]

Morehouse Hangs On to Top Title

Morehouse Hangs On to Top Title At Annual Academic ChallengeORLANDO, Fla.For the second consecutive year, Atlanta’s Morehouse College emerged as the National Champion at the 2002 Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), an academic competition among the best and brightest students at the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities held earlier this month in Orlando, Fla. […]

Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student Group

Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student GroupBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAt the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call for members to get involved in recruitment.Roughly 250 students, a number of whom were undergraduates, turned […]

New Legislation May Aid Minority-Serving Institutions

New Legislation May Aid Minority-Serving InstitutionsNew federal legislation to help implement technology at minority-serving institutions may have a major positive effect for Black colleges and Hispanic-serving colleges and universities, witnesses told a Senate panel.In a congressional hearing originally scheduled for last fall but delayed following the attacks of Sept. 11, HBCU and HSI leaders said […]

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