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Study Questions Merit of Georgia’s Popular Scholarship Program

Study Questions Merit of Georgia’s Popular Scholarship ProgramHope program boosts in-state Black student enrollment, but does little to increase access to postsecondary education overallBy Scott W. WrightGeorgia’s Hope Scholarship program, which provides up to $3,000 a year in college aid to high school students graduating with a B average, has significantly boosted Black student enrollment […]

Leadership & Policy

As Admissions Standards Rise, Southern University Prepares for Falling Enrollment

As Admissions Standards Rise, Southern University Prepares for Falling Enrollment Desegregation settlement mandates selective admissions for some of Louisiana’s public collegesBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Officials at Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus are bracing for a 27 percent drop in freshman enrollment this fall when the historically Black school raises admissions standards.Southern University Chancellor Edward R. […]

Bush Budget Includes Gains for HBCUs, Pell Grants

Bush Budget Includes Gains for HBCUs, Pell GrantsHistorically Black colleges and universities, along with Hispanic-serving institutions, are in line for moderate funding gains under President Bush’s education budget for 2002.A bare-bones budget plan for the Department of Education calls for a 6.4 percent increase for these minority-serving institutions next year. While specific funding allotments were […]

GOP, Democrats Settle Education Subcommittee Dispute

GOP, Democrats Settle Education Subcommittee DisputeSubcommittees to share responsibility of minority institutionsRepublicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives have reached a bipartisan agreement that ends a testy debate on the oversight of Black and Hispanic-serving colleges.Congressional Black Caucus members and other Democrats had complained bitterly about a plan that had placed HBCUs, HSIs and […]

Leadership & Policy

A Long, Protracted Struggle

A Long, Protracted StruggleThe long and protracted struggle to bring Black colleges up to speed with their White counterparts is one of those stories that just will not go away. And why should it given the fact that higher education so effectively mirrors our society as a whole. As long as there are disparities in […]

House Education Committee Assigns Responsibility for HBCU, HSI Programs to New Subcommittee

House Education Committee Assigns Responsibility for HBCU, HSI Programs to New Subcommittee Democratic committee members say shift means second-class status for minority institutionsAn unexpected but heated debate on congressional oversight of Black colleges is threatening to thwart efforts at bipartisan education policy early in 2001.And the partisan rancor is surfacing from what is usually a […]

Taking Our Achievement Gains for Granted

Taking Our Achievement Gains for GrantedOn Capitol Hill, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus are outraged over Republicans’ decision to shift jurisdiction of historically Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions from the House Education and Workforce Committee to the new Select Education subcommittee. Under the new subcommittee’s jurisdiction is also juvenile […]

Community Colleges

Two-Year Schools in Washington Hit Enrollment High

Two-Year Schools in Washington Hit Enrollment HighSEATTLE Community college and technical school enrollment in Washington state reached an all-time high last fall with more than a quarter of a million students, a new report indicates. The report, which was presented last month to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, also says more students […]

Community Colleges

Gore to Teach at Fisk University, Columbia, UCLA, Middle Tennessee State University

Gore to Teach at Fisk University, Columbia, UCLA, Middle Tennessee State UniversityWashingtonFrom politician to professor, former Vice President Al Gore has a series of professorial duties on the horizon. Among them, the Tennessee native’s first plan is to lead a series of lectures at Fisk, a historically Black university in Nashville. From his position at […]

Faculty & Staff

Other Types of Campus Crimes

Other Types of Campus CrimesIt is often said that our campuses reflect the society from which the students come and that, given some of the communities where our campuses are located, it is unrealistic to presume that they can be immune from crime. Indeed, when crime erupts on our campuses we usually react with, “How […]

HBCUs Will Still Have A Role to Play In the 21st Century

HBCUs Will Still Have A Role to Play In the 21st CenturyWith the new millennium now underway, and with predominately White higher education institutions aggressively recruiting Black students, the question may be asked, “Will HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities] remain an important part of U.S. higher education in the 21st century?”The major reason Blacks […]

Tennessee Higher Education Plan Offers New Hope

Tennessee Higher Education Plan Offers New HopeBy Eleanor Lee YatesNASHVILLE Tennessee State University President Dr. James A. Hefner says the recent settlement of a 32-year-old higher education federal desegregation lawsuit means new opportunities for students to receive a quality education in a diverse learning environment. “This really gives TSU the chance to be the best […]

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