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Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

Forty-three years have passed since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated the nation’s public schools, yet America’s war over equal educational opportunities continues to rage. And the most heated battles in recent years have centered around access to education at the postsecondary level.

An open letter – Black colleges

This is excerpted from an open letter sent by Alvin Chambliss Jr., Esquire, of Texas Southern University, to Dr. Elias Blake Jr., executive director, Benjamin E. Mays Institute, concerning historically Black colleges and universities.

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas While the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have experienced a decline in minority applicants because of the Hopwood ruling, officials at Stephen F. Austin State University in eastern Texas anticipate an increase in minority enrollment this fall.

Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary

Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.

Private scholarships for minorities challenged

Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn

Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

Community Colleges

Establishing a Real-World Credential

Community College of the Air Force to award 300,000th associate degree.

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