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Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology Mix

Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology MixRICHMOND, VA — During her years at Virginia State University, Jaunese Harris took note of efforts by the information systems department to improve the resources and course offerings in her major. The school hired new faculty for the department, introduced new courses each year and purchased […]

Capitolizing on the Digital Divid

Capitolizing on the Digital DividIt has dynamic colleges and universities, talented minorities and a red hot high-tech environment — not to mention lots of your federal tax dollars. But can the nation’s capital lead the way in bridging the digital divide?WASHINGTON — After an economic recession and U.S. military budget reductions forced layoffs among federal […]

BI News Briefs

Super Quarterbacks Produced by HBCUsATLANTA — Although Steve McNair came up just short in his attempt to lead the Tennessee Titans to the National Football League Championship last month, the second African American to quarterback a team in the Super Bowl will go down in the records books nonetheless.McNair guided a heart-stopping comeback by […]

Minority-Serving Institutions May Get Windfall

Minority-Serving Institutions May Get WindfallWASHINGTON — Black colleges may get a chance to receive federal funding to expand student access to degree programs, if a new Clinton administration proposal clears Congress.The Education Department has proposed a $40 million initiative to support dual degree programs for minority-serving institutions — including historically Black colleges and universities, tribal […]

Letters

Successful Examples of Student Athletes at Alcorn StateDear Editor:I read with great interest the edition with the story about James Brooks (see Black Issues, Jan. 6). At Alcorn State University, we have instituted an effective program called Athletes as Scholars to prevent this sort of tragedy.Further, the most recent (1999) NCAA Division I Graduation Rates […]

Fading Mementos

Fading MementosThey’re full of photographs and stories about sports teams and cheerleaders and bands, fraternities and sororities and other campus organizations, classmates and professors and visiting celebrities — and a host of other memories and milestones from any particular year at any particular college. But in places, what they don’t have is popularity. “Yearbooks are […]

Black Colleges Beef Up Security After Recieving Hate Mail

Black Colleges Beef Up Security After Recieving Hate MailBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La. — Southern University was one of several historically Black colleges and universities that kicked off the year 2000 by tightening security after receiving a threatening racist hate letter.“I’ve been in this business for 30-something years, and this is the first time that […]

Faculty & Staff

BI News Briefs

Just Missing Minority Hiring Goal May Not Prove Costly for Nebraska UniversityLINCOLN, Neb. — Even though the University of Nebraska system fell one person short of a state-required target for minority faculty members in 1999, it may not lose any state funding. Officials at the university say the three-year average for adding minorities meets the […]

Life, Liberty and Technology

Life, Liberty and TechnologyI was browsing at a bookstore the other day when a young brother, an engineering graduate of an historically Black college, walked up behind me with a group of his friends, talking loudly about a book he was looking for. “I’ve got to learn this CAD thing, man,” he said to one […]

As Different as Day and Night

As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]

Reparations and Higher Education

Reparations and Higher EducationThere is a continuing argument about the role of affirmative action, in various forms, in admissions and faculty recruitment at historically White universities, and in budget support for historically Black colleges and universities. But the debate does not get us much closer to consensus on a practical guiding principle for making decisions […]

Replicating Ourselves

Replicating Ourselves In the 20th and 21st CenturiesWhat has 20th century meant for African American women in higher education? Over a steaming cup of tea, I smile as I fall into the trap of naming names and citing trends to answer this question. The names are hauntingly familiar. Dr. Sadie Tanner Moselle Alexander was one […]

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