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Letters

Dear Editor:I’m in the Air Force, and subsequently have been overseas a couple of times. Because I did not join the Air Force with the agenda of “seeing the world” but to receive tuition assistance for school instead, when I was sent abroad, I was kicking and digging my nails in the streets (figuratively speaking) […]

Boom and Bust Cycles

Boom and Bust CyclesAmerica’s public colleges and universities — among the first to feel the effects of the cooling economy … ,” writes Black Issues correspondent Page Boinest Melton in her article “What’s Happening to the ‘Public’ in Public Education?” She goes on to say that nowadays how well our public education institutions are doing […]

General Electric Donates $1 Million

General Electric Donates $1 MillionTo UNCF Technology InitiativeWASHINGTONThe United Negro College Fund last month scored another major gift in its $80 million technology campaign. Officials with the GE Fund donated a $1 million grant in support of the UNCF Technology Enhancement Campaign, bringing total funds raised to $77 million over 18 months, according to UNCF […]

Looking for Black Journalists

Looking for Black Journalists In the Wrong Places If an individual isn’t careful, he or she might be lured into believing that Blacks have finally arrived in significant numbers in the media. There’s that gorgeous, velvet-voiced sister anchoring the local 6 o’clock news. A brother, usually without a mustache, provides the sports scores. At the […]

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your Advantage

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your AdvantageAs a product of a historically Black university, I am very tired of continuously defending the legal viability, constitutional justification and the significance of HBCUs.We all understand that racism is a prevalent dynamic in our society. However, even more frightening, we must realize that the mass media […]

Freddie Mac, HBCUs Team Up to Launch CreditSmart Initiative

Freddie Mac, HBCUs Team Up to Launch CreditSmart InitiativeWASHINGTONFreddie Mac, one of the nation’s biggest mortgage investors, launched a community-based consumer education outreach program last month designed to help consumers get and keep good credit.The CreditSmart program is the newest addition to “Don’t Borrow Trouble,” the national award-winning campaign to help people strengthen their credit, […]

Former Southern University Official Pleads Guilty in Embezzlement Scheme

Former Southern University Official Pleads Guilty in Embezzlement SchemeBATON ROUGE, La.A former Southern University official has pleaded guilty to charges regarding a scheme in which money was skimmed from a work-study program. Moses K. Dupre, 41, entered the guilty plea last month to charges of aiding and abetting embezzlement, misapplication and obtaining federal funds by […]

Bill Targets Minority-Serving Institutions with Agriculture Programs

Bill Targets Minority-Serving Institutions with Agriculture ProgramsMinority-serving institutions could get federal funds for agriculture research projects to meet food needs in developing countries under legislation from Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus members.Historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges all would be eligible for funds under the Biotechnology and Agriculture in […]

CBC Member Says Minority Communities Need Help With Disaster Preparation

CBC Member Says Minority Communities Need Help With Disaster PreparationLegislation proposed for federal research program with HBCU involvementHistorically Black colleges and universities may have a vital role to play in helping minority communities prepare for weather emergencies and other hazards, a Congressional Black Caucus member says.Persons of color are 2 ½ times more likely than […]

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ On

There’s a Football Revival Goin’ OnWithin the last two years, five historically Black colleges have dusted the cobwebs off their football programs. By Craig T. GreenleeStrange as it might sound, football’s recent revival at the smaller Black colleges is all about the bottom line. True, it is an expensive sport to maintain. That’s why schools […]

Leadership & Policy

HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial Help

HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial HelpCongressional hearing draws 300 people to Wilberforce University in Ohio By Mark FisherWILBERFORCE, OhioHistorically Black colleges and universities need greater federal financial help to make college affordable for students and to install the technology necessary to best prepare those students, four college presidents told congressional leaders last month. […]

Dear BI Career Consultants:

Dear BI Career Consultants:What types of programs can be implemented to educate and motivate Black alumni to increase giving at their HBCU alma mater and HBCUs in general?Trisa Long Paschal Vice President for Institutional AdvancementSpelman CollegeAtlantaSpelman College and other HBCUs have wrestled with this issue of increasing alumni giving for several years. There is a […]

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