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Recruiting African American Teachers Requires Collaboration, Cooperation

Recruiting African American Teachers Requires Collaboration, Cooperation Concerns about the quality of instruction in schools are directly related to the quality of teachers who graduate from teacher-education programs. Hence, successful reforms dictate a “simultaneous renewal” of schools and teacher-preparation programs.One of the gravest challenges facing historically Black colleges and universities today is that of preserving […]

Community Colleges

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African Teachers

Maryland Community Colleges Push Computer Literacy Among South African TeachersLargo, Md.As American higher education institutions scramble to develop international programs in distance education and Internet-based collaborations, Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) in Maryland has spearheaded a partnership with a South African college system to teach computer literacy to primary and secondary school teachers. Officials at […]

Unlikely Partners in Philanthropy

Unlikely Partners in Philanthropy Traditionally White colleges and universities increasingly look to minority communities for institutional support.By Ronald RoachFairfax, Va.George Mason University, located just outside of Washington, D.C., is known as the academic home of some of the most influential conservative scholars in the nation, most notably in economics and in law. Among its board […]

HBCUs Get Savvy About Fund Raising

HBCUs Get Savvy About Fund RaisingBy Cheryl D. FieldsToday, anyone interested in donating to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) can do so online. An agreement between the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) and Gateway computer company gives HBCUs a new way to save on technology purchases. Howard University recently scored […]

Tennessee State Students, NAACP To Unite HBCUs

Tennessee State Students, NAACP To Unite HBCUsNashville, Tenn. The Tennessee State University Student Government Association and its student chapter of the NAACP are planning to bring all historically Black colleges and universities together next February to celebrate Black History Month. The theme for the celebration is “The HBCU Think Tank.”“My goal is to reunite the HBCU […]

Study Documents Economic Impact Of Public HBCUs

Study Documents Economic Impact Of Public HBCUsNEW YORKThe study, “Economic Impact Snapshot of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Member Colleges and Universities,” conducted by K&R Management Group, is TMSF’s first in-depth snapshot of the economic impact of 42 of TMSF’s 45 member public historically Black colleges and universities.K&R Management assessed 42 of the 45 public […]

Letters

Dear Editor:I’m in the Air Force, and subsequently have been overseas a couple of times. Because I did not join the Air Force with the agenda of “seeing the world” but to receive tuition assistance for school instead, when I was sent abroad, I was kicking and digging my nails in the streets (figuratively speaking) […]

Boom and Bust Cycles

Boom and Bust CyclesAmerica’s public colleges and universities — among the first to feel the effects of the cooling economy … ,” writes Black Issues correspondent Page Boinest Melton in her article “What’s Happening to the ‘Public’ in Public Education?” She goes on to say that nowadays how well our public education institutions are doing […]

General Electric Donates $1 Million

General Electric Donates $1 MillionTo UNCF Technology InitiativeWASHINGTONThe United Negro College Fund last month scored another major gift in its $80 million technology campaign. Officials with the GE Fund donated a $1 million grant in support of the UNCF Technology Enhancement Campaign, bringing total funds raised to $77 million over 18 months, according to UNCF […]

Looking for Black Journalists

Looking for Black Journalists In the Wrong Places If an individual isn’t careful, he or she might be lured into believing that Blacks have finally arrived in significant numbers in the media. There’s that gorgeous, velvet-voiced sister anchoring the local 6 o’clock news. A brother, usually without a mustache, provides the sports scores. At the […]

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your Advantage

Advice to HBCUs: Use the Media To Your AdvantageAs a product of a historically Black university, I am very tired of continuously defending the legal viability, constitutional justification and the significance of HBCUs.We all understand that racism is a prevalent dynamic in our society. However, even more frightening, we must realize that the mass media […]

Freddie Mac, HBCUs Team Up to Launch CreditSmart Initiative

Freddie Mac, HBCUs Team Up to Launch CreditSmart InitiativeWASHINGTONFreddie Mac, one of the nation’s biggest mortgage investors, launched a community-based consumer education outreach program last month designed to help consumers get and keep good credit.The CreditSmart program is the newest addition to “Don’t Borrow Trouble,” the national award-winning campaign to help people strengthen their credit, […]

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