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Leadership & Policy
Endowments: investing in education’s future – historically African American colleges
With enrollments down, operating costs up, federal research funds disappearing and admission and hiring policies endangered, the best way to coax a smile out of higher education administrators is to mention a single word: endowment.
Students
Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done
Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.
Leadership & Policy
California’s Mertes to resign – David Mertes, chancellor of California Community College system
David Mertes, who led the nation’s largest collection of colleges through massive social changes and numerous political mine fields, will resign June 30 as chancellor of the California Community College system.
African-American
Building the village: one scientist at a time – university professor’s program for minority high school students
When Dr. Billy Joe Evans was in high school, his parents couldn’t pay for the exam that would permit him to attend college early. So one of his teachers paid. “That’s the kind of commitment we need from the village,” he says, alluding to the African proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.”
HBCUs
The line forms to the right – presidential election prospects for black higher education
As the curtain rises on the 1996 presidential campaign, a four-year old scenario appears to be repeating itself:
Students
Going after the high-flying scholars: Florida A & M University ranks among the best in enticing high school best and brightest – Recruitment & Retention
FAMU Ranks Among theBest in Enticing High School Best and Brightest.
Students
Priming the pump – University of Virginia School of Medicine program has historically Black institutions as recruitment partners – Recruitment & Retention
UVa Program Involves HBCUs in Recruiting Minority Medical Students.
Students
On-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & Retention
New Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.
Students
1996 Ad
Higher education programs got a partial reprieve recently when Congress and the Clinton administration declared a truce in their budget battle and provided important funding, along with student aid guidelines that will last through mid-March.
African-American
Back to the ‘schoolhouse.’ – James Hood returns to University of Alabama for a doctorate degree – Recruitment & Retention
When James Hood integrated the University of Alabama under the watchful eye of a national television audience in 1963, education was the farthest career from his mind. He was planning to earn a degree, enter a seminary and become a minister. More than three decades later, Hood has returned to the university where he and Vivian Malone, the other Black student who enrolled with him, defied then Gov. George Wallace’s pledge to prevent desegregation efforts to earn a doctorate degree and to continue to nurture his love of education. That love has been focused for many years on community college education.
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Community Colleges
Angry & determined: we need an open dialogue on race – excerpt from James D. Tschechtelin’s speech, president of Baltimore City Community College – Transcript
The following is excerpted from a recent address given by Dr. James D. Tschechtelin, president of Baltimore City Community College.
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Community Colleges
Seamless system – financial problem of public higher education in the US
WASHINGTON As funding problems persist, state legislators are looking to increase tuition and raise admissions standards at public four-year colleges, making community colleges the primary access to higher education, according to a new survey of state legislators released here this month.
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