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Teachers College Honors Civil Rights Pioneers

Teachers College Honors Civil Rights PioneersNEW YORKGraduates of Columbia University’s Teachers College were reminded last month of the lasting importance of the civil rights movement and its influence on the struggle for equity in education. The university used the 2002 Master’s Convocation setting to honor several important leaders who played crucial roles in shaping America’s […]

Campaigning for Access

Campaigning for AccessActivists and lawmakers launch effort to save federal initiatives on digital technology With limited private and campus funds, officials at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., tried to establish an Internet and computer-based tutoring system in some of Durham’s poorest public schools. Limited funding enabled the purchase of five computers, each of […]

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsRichard A. Chavolla has been named associate director of the Office of Minorities in Higher Education at the American Council on Education in Washington. A former community liaison officer and assistant dean at Yale University, Chavolla earned a bachelor’s from Boston University and a master’s from Boston College.Dr. PonJola Coney has been named senior […]

Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research Funding

Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research FundingIt is important and necessary for graduate students across different disciplines to be engaged in higher education policy debates. However, the reality is that too often, many graduate students are focused solely on their course work and/or research without realizing the significant impact of higher education policies on their […]

Howard President to Head HBCU Capital Financing Board

Howard President to Head HBCU Capital Financing BoardWASHINGTONU.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Roderick Paige last month announced the appointment of H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University, as chairman of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Board. His term runs through September 2004.“Patrick Swygert’s distinguished career in law and as president of two […]

Helping Teachers Make the Grade

Helping Teachers Make the GradeNBPTS, HBCUs partner to prepare African American teachers for national certification By Phaedra Brotherton The role of historically Black colleges and universities in preparing Black teachers for national certification was highlighted during “Recreate the Legacy of Educational Excellence,” a half-day conference session sponsored by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards […]

African-American

A Second Calling

A Second CallingDr. Johnnetta Cole to lead all-female Bennett CollegeBy Allison ForemanGREENSBORO, N.C.Troubled Bennett College received some new hope last month when it named Dr. Johnnetta Cole as its new president. Cole, best known for her 10 years as president of Spelman College, will step into her new post July 15. She will replace Interim […]

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and Brightest

Calling on the Black Community’s Best and BrightestI was one of those people who associate editor Robin Smiles in her article “Race Matters in Health Care” says “yawned” when the Institute of Medicine released its report recently, which documented that minorities, regardless of income, education and access, were discriminated against in health care. I thought […]

Community Colleges

Preparing for a New Day

Preparing for a New DayNow, as at previous times of national crisis, our thoughts naturally turn to our young people. They are whom we seek to protect. They also are whom we must prepare to protect themselves. At such moments it is helpful, I believe, to turn to history. I like to ask what the […]

Going Global

Going Global: Traditionally, the percentage of African American students who studied abroad has been low; however, university officials are looking into ways to increase those numbers.By Linda Meggett BrownInternational study abroad programs aren’t new but they are beginning to take off at historically Black colleges and universities. The challenge for these institutions is to make such […]

Conference Seeks to Empower Black Farmers, Landowners

Conference Seeks to Empower Black Farmers, LandownersTuskegee, Ala.Increasing political awareness of African American land loss was the primary focus of a recent conference held at Tuskegee University. The conference, “Shadow Lands: Empowering the African American Farmer and African American Landowner,” was sponsored by the NAACP as part of the organization’s voter empowerment agenda.According to the […]

Former Head of Work-Study Program Headed to Prison

Former Head of Work-Study Program Headed to PrisonBATON ROUGE, La.The former director of Southern University’s work-study program will spend 30 months in federal prison for engineering a kickback scheme.In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson said Eloise Blount and her accomplices used the university’s work-study program as their own “personal piggy bank” […]

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