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California Community College Drops Multicultural Component In New Courses

California Community College Drops Multicultural Component In New CoursesMONTEREY, Calif.Monterey Peninsula College, a two-year institution, has dropped a policy requiring professors who propose new courses to include a multicultural component.A professor who proposed a new course to focus on film and literature refused to answer a question on the application about how course topics are […]

Black Colleges Gain Status in GEAR UP Grant Competition

Black Colleges Gain Status in GEAR UP Grant CompetitionBlack colleges fared somewhat better in the 2000 Gaining Early Access and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs grant competition than they did in the program’s inaugural competition last year.Some HBCU leaders were critical of the first grant awards under GEAR UP, a new federal program that promotes college […]

HBCUs Eligible for New Special Ed Grant

HBCUs Eligible for New Special Ed GrantHistorically Black colleges and other minority-serving institutions are eligible for a new U.S. Department of Education grant competition in special education.The department is offering funds to projects that help prepare personnel to work with disabled children and youth, from infancy through the teen-age years. Projects may support field training […]

Census Bureau Predicts Minorities Will Become Majority by 2050

Census Bureau Predicts Minorities Will Become Majority by 2050The U.S. Census Bureau is predicting that students of color will become the majority in K-12 classrooms by the middle of the 21st century. Already, 37 percent of elementary and secondary school enrollment is composed of students of color.A recent report, “Educating the Emerging Majority,” warns that […]

College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO Programs

College Leaders Hope to Keep Up Government Support of TRIO ProgramsWith the Clinton administration in its final months, college outreach specialists meeting in Washington in September focused on the issue of continuity — seeking to build on gains made during the past eight years regardless of which party claims the White House in November.Those attending […]

Gore Gets Rousing Response at Howard University Campaign Stop

Gore Gets Rousing Response at Howard University Campaign StopBy Jamilah EvelynDemocratic presidential nominee Al Gore worked an easy crowd and shored up his Black vote last month on a campaign stop at Howard University, appealing to a standing-room-only crowd and a group of potential voters who overwhelmingly back him. Gore gave small nods to higher […]

Giving Credit Where It’s Due for Historic Preservation

Giving Credit Where It’s Due for Historic PreservationDear Editor,I read with great interest your excellent article in the July 20, 2000 edition of Black Issues, titled “Can Historic Buildings on Black Campuses Be Saved?” The article highlighted the continuing need and outstanding progress being made in renovating and upgrading historic buildings on historically Black college […]

Black Colleges Networking On Technology Issues

Black Colleges Networking On Technology IssuesThree Major Conferences Slated When the school year starts, students are not alone in having to adjust to campuses that have upgraded their information-technology infrastructures and are using more technology in the classroom. Faculty and staff also struggle to keep abreast of the issues generated by rapid change. This fall, […]

Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Hispanic-Serving Institutions The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities is a national association representing Hispanic-serving institutions. HACU works to promote nonprofit, accredited colleges and universities where Hispanics constitute a minimum of 25 percent of the enrollment at either the graduate or undergraduate level, in accordance with the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which […]

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Make Impressive Strides

Hispanic-Serving Institutions Make Impressive StridesBut Leaders Say Funding Not Keeping Pace with DemographicsBy Charles DervaricsFor Hispanic education leaders, the year 2000 may go down as a landmark year for action in the nation’s capital.With a special White House conference drawing national attention to their cause and a large budget increase all but certain this fall, Hispanic-serving colleges and […]

African-American

As Latino Populations Grow…

As Latino Populations Grow…So does their power. Will they compete or cooperate with African Americans for academic clout?By Pamela R. WeigerThere is power in numbers, sometimes real, sometimes perceived. Last month’s U.S. Census Bureau release of statistics showing just how fast Hispanic and Asian populations are growing in this country may fuel the perception that, […]

Presidential Advisory Board

Reed Named to Presidential Advisory BoardPresident Clinton announced last month that he intends to appoint Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed to serve as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.Reed, of Little Rock, Ark., is the president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, the first woman to serve […]

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