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Students
Teaching the young keeps him young – 90 Year Old Dr. Richard Mckinney of Morgan State Still Going Strong
One of the oldest active professors in the nation, Dr. Richard I. McKinney, professor emeritus of philosophy at Morgan State University, has spent all of his life on college campuses and plans to keep on going. This semester will see him teaching at least one class.
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HBCUs
Federal spending for HBCUs is up: agencies from the CIA to the Veterans Administration increase grants, fellowships and gifts – historically black colleges and universities, Central Intelligence Agency
Federal grant, training and recruiting spending directed at historically Black colleges and universities jumped by 21 percent in a two-year, period, according to government figures in a soon-to-be released report.
LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.
LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”
Faculty & Staff
The dirty little secret of college admissions – irregularities in the admission procedure at the University of California
In the aftermath of an expose by the Los Angeles Times that some students were admitted to the University of California at the request of prominent people, a report by the university was recently released.
Community Colleges
Educating the press: Columbia’s Teachers College seeks to improve education coverage
Too often reporters are thrown onto the education beat with little more preparation than their own school experience. Saying it can help make sense of a bewildering beat, the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, has been founded to offer a wide range of services to working reporters, editors and broadcast producers at Teachers College at Columbia University.
Students
Fresh scoop: new-style public journalism takes reporting to a new level of activism
When Dr. Louise Reid Ritchie worked as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, she also coordinated a community service project at the newspaper called the Gift of Reading, which was responsible for collecting and distributing more than 500,000 books to underprivileged children in Detroit. Ritchie said she “tutored kids and wrote articles soliciting books and supplies for area schools from readers.”
Community Colleges
Terrel H. Bell: ‘The Thirteenth Man,’ 1921-1996 – educator – Obituary
During the early months of Ronald Reagan’s first term As President of the United States, the African American men and women engaged in teaching and administering community colleges throughout the nation met in Atlanta, Georgia. The group, known as the National Council on Black American Affairs (NCBAA), had assembled to determine what steps we might take as a national Black organization to stave off Reagan’s declared promise to destroy the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
Latinx
Spending bill would freeze funds for HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities
Historically Black colleges and universities would receive the same amount of federal funding in 1997 that they received this year under legislation proposed by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Students
Cash-for-grades Scam Highlights Dilemma For College Admissions
BERKELEY, Calif. News that dozens of community college students in the San Francisco Bay Area may have been hitting their checkbooks rather than textbooks in a cash-for-grades scam highlighted an academic dilemma: What to do about cheaters?
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HBCUs
Supreme Court ruling on VMI not a legal burden to HBCUs – Virginia Military Institute, historically Black colleges and universities
Historically Black colleges and universities probably won’t face another legal barrage now that the Supreme Court has eradicated single-gender education at Virginia Military Institute, discrimination law experts say.
Community Colleges
Tuition-free community colleges better than tax credit
Cap in hand and gown flowing, President William Jefferson Clinton made his bid to be the “education President” when he spoke recently at Princeton University. He offered a $1500 refundable tuition tax credit for students and their parents, and predicted that such a credit would make community college attendance essentially free.
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