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NASA Names University Space Science Education Partners

NASA Names University Space Science Education PartnersWASHINGTONSixteen universities have been named recipients of NASA’s 2003 Minority University College Education and Research Partnership Initiative in Space Science (MUCERPI) award. MUCERPI offers minority universities an opportunity to develop academic programs and/or faculty and student capabilities in space science through close partnerships with major space science research groups. […]

Commitment at the Highest Levels

Commitment at the Highest Levels”Bringing more than skin color to the party” pretty much sums up our cover story on recruiting faculty of color. One new faculty hire from Rochester Institute of Technology says minority faculty have to do just that and must “bring ways to contribute to the strategic direction of the university and […]

Grants & Awards

Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]

Leadership & Policy

Changing Frequency

Changing Frequency Newly formatted Black college radio stations work to jazz up their image, while serving campus and community NASHVILLE, Tenn.Before Fisk University’s radio station recently began using the tagline “Smooth Side Up” to refer to its new smooth jazz format, the station’s broadcasting image was upside down. At best, it played a hodgepodge of […]

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules

Calif. Colleges Not Liable for Off-Campus Injuries, Court Rules QUINCY, Calif.California community colleges and their faculty are not responsible for injuries to students who are engaged in off-campus assignments, a state appellate court has unanimously held.The decision bars a suit by a Feather River Community College student who suffered crippling injuries when she was thrown […]

Community Colleges

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination Lawsuits

Salt Lake Community College Faces Discrimination LawsuitsSALT LAKE CITYSalt Lake Community College is facing a federal lawsuit from several employees who claim the school has discriminated against them. The suits claim the college has created a hostile work environment for minorities and that White employees enjoy preferential treatment. An SLCC spokesman, Joy Tlou, said the […]

Community Colleges

UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers

UC Closes Door to Mid-Year Community-College Transfers BERKELEY, Calif.Community college student Anoop Kaur expected to work hard and make good grades to transfer to the prestigious University of California. She didn’t expect her future to depend on whether state officials have the smarts to handle California’s money troubles. Last month, students such as Kaur got […]

Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars

Mold Continues to Plague NCCU as Cost of Removal Soars CHAPEL HILL, N.C.The cost of repairing mold-infested buildings at North Carolina Central University could be millions of dollars more than expected and is draining NCCU resources, a state university committee learned last month.There are indications that fixing the problem could cost much more than the […]

HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher Education

HBCUs to Receive $4.5 Million For Teacher EducationBy Ben Hammer Historically Black colleges and universities will receive assistance in the form of a $4.5 million grant to prepare future teachers on how to teach reading based on scientifically proven instruction methods. U.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige made the announcement last month at an event […]

Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft Award

Nine HBCUs to Get Software in First Round of Microsoft AwardNEW YORKThe Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) has announced that nine of its 45 member colleges and universities will be receiving new Microsoft software for technology upgrades, which is part of a $15 million software grant from the Microsoft Corp. The schools, which are public historically […]

Diversity: Here Today, More Tomorrow

Diversity: Here Today, More TomorrowROCKVILLE, Md.Haniee Chung, a 22-year-old spring honors graduate of Montgomery College, has an outlook on diversity that might sound strange to her elders.“We’re used to it,” she says. “Really, a lot of people my age don’t think about the question of diversity much at all.”Since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings […]

Faculty & Staff

Diverse City

Diverse CityCommunity colleges are the most diverse institutions in academia, and getting more so by the dayBy Garry BoulardOf all the many numbers that illustrate community colleges’ rich diversity, the most telling are these: In 2000, the latest year for which comparable U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Census statistics are available, 12 percent of […]

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