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House Republican-HBCU Summit Leaders Announce Task Force
House Republican-HBCU Summit Leaders Announce Task ForceRep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., and some of his colleagues announced the formation of a task force to follow up on the first House Republican Historically Black Colleges Summit on Capitol Hill earlier this summer (see Black Issues, July 6).The task force, which Watts says will convene at least three […]
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Letters
DeVry happy to move overDear Editor,We read with great enthusiasm your recent article, “Move Over, DeVry,” announcing that historically Black colleges and universities now top the list of the number of computer and information science baccalaureate graduates (see Black Issues, June 22).We at DeVry are proud to have had the distinction of being one of […]
Leadership & Policy
Black Caucus Criticizes GOP Effort to Help HBCUs
Black Caucus Criticizes GOP Effort to Help HBCUsBy Charles DervaricsThe June summit of congressional Republicans and Black college leaders continues to stir interest on Capitol Hill, with the Congressional Black Caucus leader criticizing the meeting as Republicans begin to map plans to expand these discussions.“If [the GOP’s] past is any guide with respect to how […]
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Good News Doesn’t Close Gaps
Good News Doesn’t Close GapsFour gaps define the African American economic experience for me — the income gap, the Digital Divide (or access gap), the credit gap and the education gap.In terms of the income gap, African Americans still earn a fraction of what Whites earn. While that fraction is larger with education, the gap […]
Leadership & Policy
BI New Briefs
BI New BriefsCalifornia Professor Launches Hunger Strike Over Tenure DecisionPOMONA, Calif. — A professor at Pomona College who says he was denied tenure because of race discrimination went on a hunger strike last month, hoping the attention would pressure the school to reopen the case. Dr. Stanley O. Gaines Jr. worked as an assistant professor […]
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Washington Briefs
Washington BriefsHBCU Wins Commerce FundsWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration’s new initiative to improve communities in the Mississippi Delta region continues to provide benefits for colleges in that area.Mississippi Valley State University has received a $90,000 university center grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Goals for the program are to help improve the Delta economy, […]
Latinx
Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in Technology
Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in TechnologyWASHINGTON — The federal government must “significantly expand” initiatives to recruit minorities and women for science and technology careers through larger Pell grants, increased support for Black colleges and other services, a bipartisan congressional panel says.“The problem has been studied enough. Now we need action,” says Rep. Eddie […]
HBCUs
Raising a Phoenix from the Mud
Raising a Phoenix from the MudNorth Carolina’s HBCUs help rebuild first town founded by BlacksPRINCEVILLE, N.C. — “Is this what it was like when God sent the flood?Marshall Harvey, the director of community relations and community development at Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C., says a student asked him that question after seeing first-hand the […]
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Washington Briefs
House OKs Record HBCU Spending BillWASHINGTON — Despite partisan bickering on other issues, the House of Representatives mustered enough support for a fiscal 2001 education budget bill with record spending for historically Black colleges and universities.The 217 to 214 vote puts the House on record favoring a $50 million increase above current federal funding for […]
Leadership & Policy
Fighting to Preserve Black History
Fighting to Preserve Black History Years after congressional appropriations were made and public awareness has faded, Black college officials still are struggling to restore historic propertiesTALLADEGA, Ala. — Ask Talladega College President Dr. Marguerite Archie-Hudson about historic-building renovations needed on her campus set here amidst the hills and valleys of this suburban Southern town and she […]
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A Mandate for More Students:
A Mandate for More Students: HBCUs shore up their images in effort to boost enrollmentsELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Pressured by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to boost enrollments, the state’s five public historically Black universities are revising their images and crafting aggressive sales pitches to attract more students. Officials at Fayetteville State […]
Students
The Need for Closure
The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]
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