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HBCUs Poised To Offer Online Degrees

HBCUs Poised To Offer Online Degrees HAMPTON, Va. — Within the historically Black college and university community, the push to offer online distance learning courses is entering a new phase — the establishment of online degree programs.This summer, Hampton University will begin two degree programs whose courses will be accessible entirely through the Internet. Many […]

Leadership & Policy

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU Officials

Campus Crimes Survey Angers HBCU OfficialsATLANTA — When administrators at Morehouse College here learned that the editors at a crime news Web site had dubbed the campus potentially one of the most dangerous places in America for students to pursue a higher education, they were mortified.After all, this 3,000-student school logged no murders, no sexual […]

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Clinton Joins Waters To Address ‘Digital Divide’WASHINGTON — African Americans and Hispanics are less likely than Whites to get connected to the Internet, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., with help from President Clinton, is doing something about it.With Waters’ help, the White House is requesting $100 million in fiscal 2001 for community technology centers that […]

Minority-Serving Institutions in Line For Funding Gains

Minority-Serving Institutions in Line For Funding GainsWASHINGTON — President Clinton’s final education budget plan would give student aid and Black college programs some substantial funding gains next year.Total funding for historically Black colleges and universities would increase by $30 million, surpassing the $200 million barrier. The overall $209 million plan includes $169 million for the […]

Solving This Digital Dilemma

Solving This Digital DilemmaEarly in my academic career, I was tapped on the shoulder, pulled aside and told that I was one of the kids considered bright enough to enter the school’s magnet program. It was junior high. And bored as I had indeed been in some of my math and science classes, enticing as […]

Crossing The Divide

Crossing The Divide$6 million NSF project seeks to connect minority-serving institutionsWASHINGTON — By the time a fierce winter storm had sheathed this capitol city and its burgeoning suburbs with a foot of snow this past January, some 40 representatives from historically Black institutions, tribal colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions had comfortably settled in a downtown hotel. The […]

Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology Mix

Job Fair Pulls Virginia HBCU Students Into The Technology MixRICHMOND, VA — During her years at Virginia State University, Jaunese Harris took note of efforts by the information systems department to improve the resources and course offerings in her major. The school hired new faculty for the department, introduced new courses each year and purchased […]

Capitolizing on the Digital Divid

Capitolizing on the Digital DividIt has dynamic colleges and universities, talented minorities and a red hot high-tech environment — not to mention lots of your federal tax dollars. But can the nation’s capital lead the way in bridging the digital divide?WASHINGTON — After an economic recession and U.S. military budget reductions forced layoffs among federal […]

Community Colleges

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Henry D. Shannon has been named chancellor of St Louis Community College’s Forest Park campus. He was previously acting chancellor and president. Shannon’s experience includes administrative positions at Saint Louis University and Harris-Stowe College. He earned his bachelor’s in elementary education from Harris-Stowe College, and a master’s and doctorate in counseling education, both […]

BI News Briefs

Super Quarterbacks Produced by HBCUsATLANTA — Although Steve McNair came up just short in his attempt to lead the Tennessee Titans to the National Football League Championship last month, the second African American to quarterback a team in the Super Bowl will go down in the records books nonetheless.McNair guided a heart-stopping comeback by […]

Washington Briefs

White House Plans New Education Tax BreakWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration again is touting new tax benefits for higher education, though its ideas may not fare as well as they did back in 1997.That year, Congress approved two new tax credit programs — the HOPE Scholarship and the lifelong learning credit. HOPE provides up to […]

Evaluating the Benefits of Lifelong Learning

Minority-Serving Institutions May Get Windfall

Minority-Serving Institutions May Get WindfallWASHINGTON — Black colleges may get a chance to receive federal funding to expand student access to degree programs, if a new Clinton administration proposal clears Congress.The Education Department has proposed a $40 million initiative to support dual degree programs for minority-serving institutions — including historically Black colleges and universities, tribal […]

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