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North Carolina HBCUs to Weather More Changes

RALEIGH, N.C. Despite an influx of money and students, North Carolina’s historically black public universities still face weak graduation rates and several financial problems.

Leadership & Policy

Former Maryland-Eastern Shore President Hytche Dies at 78

PRINCESS ANNE, Md. The University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, was mourning the death of William Percy Hytche Sr., a former math professor who led the historically black institution for two decades.

OSU President Greeted Like State’s New Governor

COLUMBUS Ohio There was something mighty familiar about the selection-slash-coronation of Gordon Gee as Ohio State University’s new president last week.

IU Vice President Headed to NCCU

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Outgoing Indiana University vice president Charlie Nelms has been appointed chancellor of North Carolina Central University, the nation’s first state-supported liberal arts institution for black students.

The Shape Of 1998

“You’ve got to know the shape of the river perfectly. It is all there is left to steer by on a very dark night.” So begins Derek Bok and Dr. William Bowen’s new book, The Shape of the River, one of the first books to demonstrate the power of race-sensitive admissions practices. The former presidents of Harvard and Princeton universities evoke the image of Mississippi riverboat pilots winding through fogs, slow eddies, and hidden bluffs.

Black Enterprise-Listed – listing of top 50 colleges for African American students

A new college ranking, designed to help students and their parents evaluate an institution’s academic and social appeal for African Americans, hits newsstands.

Leadership & Policy

Knowing the Real Score: Football vs. Mississippi Education

In fall 1993, while discussing a program for Sunday morning service in our church in Oxford, Miss., a committee member, after looking at her calendar, stated that Sunday would not be a good day for the program because Ole Miss was playing a home football game that weekend. Little did I know at that time how prophetic that statement was. Football is a religion in Mississippi.

Grants & Awards

Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.

Leadership & Policy

Career CONSULTANTS

I am considering accepting my first president’s job. What things should I consider before I accept it? Does it matter whether I start at an HBCU or a traditionally White institution?

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Faculty & Staff

BIG Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth 10 points.

Community Colleges

College Cancels “Happy Slaves” Class

ARCHDALE, N.C. Community college officials cancelled the final class of a Civil War history course that featured controversial claims by its instructors that most slaves were happy in captivity.

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