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Leadership & Policy

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean Up

EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean UpLINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.A new kind of SWAT team is surfacing on campuses that can ruin even the toughest college president’s day. The special weapon? Environmental law. The special tactics? Big fines. If the hunt uncovers pollution violations, the price tag can rival the impact of a drug bust, […]

Community Colleges

Morris College Instructor Sues After Contract is Not Renewed

Morris College Instructor Sues After Contract is Not RenewedSUMTER, S.C. A White professor has sued a predominantly Black school for failing to renew his contract. Assistant Professor Michael Ardis says Morris College terminated his employment after he complained in a restaurant about the service of a waiter, who in turn questioned whether the complaint was […]

Community Colleges

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University status

NAACP Wants WEST VIRGINIA State to be granted University statusCHARLESTON, W.Va. The state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wants historically Black West Virginia State College to become a university, which a leading legislator says is part of a logical next step to improving higher education. “There is lots of […]

Community Colleges

Students Sue Over Campus Relocation Effort

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Students at Hartford’s Capital Community College here have filed a federal racial discrimination lawsuit in an attempt to block the college’s move to a former downtown department store. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, claims that moving the college from its current campus to the former G. Fox […]

Presidential Candidates Make Higher Education Rounds

Presidential Candidates Make Higher Education RoundsBy Jamilah Evelyn Higher education finally took center stage in the presidential election last month when Republican nominee George W. Bush made a campaign stop at historically Black Dillard University and Democratic nominee Al Gore visited the University of Maryland.Setting his sights on pulling Louisiana back into the Republican fold […]

Campuses Move Toward Wireless Computing

Campuses Move Toward Wireless ComputingWASHINGTONStudents arriving at Howard University this fall will find one of the latest information technology amenities available to them in their dormitory rooms — the ability to access the campus computer network through a wireless connection.Students, faculty and staff will, with the aid of special modems, have wireless access to Howard’s […]

Community Colleges

Grants Lure D.C. Kids To Va., Md. Schools

Grants Lure D.C. Kids To Va., Md. SchoolsColleges and universities in Maryland and Virginia are favored by high school graduates here benefiting from a new federal grant program that offers cheaper rates at all public and a few private institutions in the nation. The program’s officials and educators say the grant, coupled with heavy recruiting […]

House Republican-HBCU Summit Leaders Announce Task Force

House Republican-HBCU Summit Leaders Announce Task ForceRep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., and some of his colleagues announced the formation of a task force to follow up on the first House Republican Historically Black Colleges Summit on Capitol Hill earlier this summer (see Black Issues, July 6).The task force, which Watts says will convene at least three […]

Letters

DeVry happy to move overDear Editor,We read with great enthusiasm your recent article, “Move Over, DeVry,” announcing that historically Black colleges and universities now top the list of the number of computer and information science baccalaureate graduates (see Black Issues, June 22).We at DeVry are proud to have had the distinction of being one of […]

Leadership & Policy

Black Caucus Criticizes GOP Effort to Help HBCUs

Black Caucus Criticizes GOP Effort to Help HBCUsBy Charles DervaricsThe June summit of congressional Republicans and Black college leaders continues to stir interest on Capitol Hill, with the Congressional Black Caucus leader criticizing the meeting as Republicans begin to map plans to expand these discussions.“If [the GOP’s] past is any guide with respect to how […]

Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community College

Oregon Student Files Reverse-Discrimination Case Against Community CollegeA Portland Community College student here has filed a reverse-discrimination complaint alleging she is being denied free tuition because she is White. Adrienne Williams, 29, claims a teacher development program violates the college’s nondiscrimination policies because it is open only to minorities. She sent her complaint to the […]

Where There is None

Where There is Nonettracting minority students into engineering programs is a challenge. A rural Midwestern school such as the University of Missouri-Rolla has double the difficulty, because it is a challenge to attract minority students, period. At least, that was the issue 10 years ago, when it occurred to university officials that there might be […]

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