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Faculty & Staff

Students Use Web Site to Evaluate, Rate Professors

Students Use Web Site to Evaluate, Rate ProfessorsMENLO PARK, Calif.At RateMyProfessors.com, students can find more than 200,000 ratings of professors in approximately 1,800 schools. The free Web site is considered the Internet’s largest listing of college professor ratings, and offers a public review of professors from across the United States and Canada. The Web site […]

Community Colleges

Stipulations on the Election of Undergraduate Members of PHI BETA KAPPA

Stipulations on the Election of Undergraduate Members of PHI BETA KAPPAIndividual chapters determine their specific criteria for election of members; however, all candidates must meet these minimal requirements.1) Eligible students shall be candidates for a liberal bachelor’s degree in a college of arts and sciences or its institutional equivalent.2) They shall be majoring in an […]

Faculty & Staff

Extending Their Reach

Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]

Bush Administration Awards Community Development Grants to 22 HBCUs

Bush Administration Awards Community Development Grants to 22 HBCUsTwenty-two historically Black colleges and universities will receive $10.7 million to revitalize distressed neighborhoods near their campuses by expanding their role and effectiveness in neighborhood revitalization, housing and economic development, HUD Deputy Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced last month.“These grants will help ensure these colleges continue to educate […]

Native Americans

Cultural Center to Showcase Tribal College’s History

Cultural Center to Showcase Tribal College’s HistoryLAWRENCE, Kan.Reminders of Haskell Indian Nations University’s origins as a boarding school to educate and assimilate tribal children greeted visitors at the formal opening of its new Museum and Cultural Center. The $1.1 million center is one of about 30 such facilities being built at tribal colleges across the […]

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Students of Color Make Enrollment, Graduation Gains

Students of Color Make Enrollment, Graduation Gains WASHINGTONThe number of students of color enrolling and graduating from the nation’s colleges and universities continues to climb steadily, according to an annual status report released last month by the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Office of Minorities in Higher Education (OMHE). Overall, enrollment by students of color […]

‘Choosing Spelman’

‘Choosing Spelman’College’s ninth president sees intersection between the school’s values and her life’s work.Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum took over the reigns of Spelman College as its ninth president in August. “It just felt like this was what I was supposed to do,” Tatum says about heading Atlanta’s historically Black college for women. Author of Why […]

HBCUs Have Key Role to Play in School Reform Efforts

HBCUs Have Key Role to Play in School Reform EffortsBlack colleges have significant roles to play in implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, the new federal reform plan for K-12 education, administration officials told HBCU leaders in September.“HBCUs are a top priority for this administration,” said Wilbert Bryant, deputy assistant secretary for postsecondary […]

President’s Advisory Board Proposing 10 Percent Spending Increase for HBCUs

President’s Advisory Board Proposing 10 Percent Spending Increase for HBCUs President Bush’s Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities was prepared to discuss increasing the federal spending of HBCUs by 10 percent with the president during a visit to the White House last month. However, with the president’s attention increasingly occupied by international security […]

HBCUs Making Progress on Loan Default Rate

HBCUs Making Progress on Loan Default RateNo Black college or university in 2002 is subject to federal sanctions for student loan default rates, a sign that HBCUs are making major progress in counseling and monitoring its student loan borrowers, the U.S. Department of Education says.HBCUs “have deployed innovative approaches towards default management and reduction,” the […]

Working Toward a Common Goal

Working Toward a Common GoalThe last time Black Issues reported on the exclusive honor society Phi Beta Kappa, Fisk and Howard universities, in addition to Morehouse College, were the only three historically Black colleges and universities with Phi Beta Kappa chapters — that was in 1990 (see Black Issues, Sept. 27, 1990). In 1997, Phi […]

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsEric Beck is the new visiting project coordinator for the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Formerly, he was an adviser for the Educational Talent Search (TRIO) program housed at Parkland College in Champaign, Ill. Beck earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from the University of […]

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