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Leadership & Policy

BI New Briefs

BI New BriefsCalifornia Professor Launches Hunger Strike Over Tenure DecisionPOMONA, Calif. — A professor at Pomona College who says he was denied tenure because of race discrimination went on a hunger strike last month, hoping the attention would pressure the school to reopen the case. Dr. Stanley O. Gaines Jr. worked as an assistant professor […]

Academic Freedom without Tenure

Washington Briefs

Washington BriefsHBCU Wins Commerce FundsWASHINGTON — The Clinton administration’s new initiative to improve communities in the Mississippi Delta region continues to provide benefits for colleges in that area.Mississippi Valley State University has received a $90,000 university center grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Goals for the program are to help improve the Delta economy, […]

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in Technology

Panel Pushes Support for Women, Minorities in TechnologyWASHINGTON — The federal government must “significantly expand” initiatives to recruit minorities and women for science and technology careers through larger Pell grants, increased support for Black colleges and other services, a bipartisan congressional panel says.“The problem has been studied enough. Now we need action,” says Rep. Eddie […]

Leadership & Policy

West Virginia State Reels Over Community College Compliance

West Virginia State Reels Over Community College ComplianceINSTITUTE, W.Va. — When lawmakers considered granting independence to West Virginia State College’s community and technical college this spring in the name of higher education reform, Dr. Hazo Carter Jr., the school’s president, lobbied fiercely to keep the school intact.He phoned legislators. He called in political chips. He […]

Raising a Phoenix from the Mud

Raising a Phoenix from the MudNorth Carolina’s HBCUs help rebuild first town founded by BlacksPRINCEVILLE, N.C. — “Is this what it was like when God sent the flood?Marshall Harvey, the director of community relations and community development at Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C., says a student asked him that question after seeing first-hand the […]

Washington Briefs

House OKs Record HBCU Spending BillWASHINGTON — Despite partisan bickering on other issues, the House of Representatives mustered enough support for a fiscal 2001 education budget bill with record spending for historically Black colleges and universities.The 217 to 214 vote puts the House on record favoring a $50 million increase above current federal funding for […]

Faculty & Staff

An Imperfect Defender of Academic Freedom

An Imperfect Defender of Academic FreedomThe high quality of scholarly activity — including scientific discovery in the United States — relies on the considerable academic freedom enjoyed here. Academic freedom allows scholars to follow their independent judgment on what research avenues to pursue, and to report results without undue concern about political consequences. Academic freedom […]

Academic Freedom without Tenure

Leadership & Policy

Fighting to Preserve Black History

Fighting to Preserve Black History Years after congressional appropriations were made and public awareness has faded, Black college officials still are struggling to restore historic propertiesTALLADEGA, Ala. — Ask Talladega College President Dr. Marguerite Archie-Hudson about historic-building renovations needed on her campus set here amidst the hills and valleys of this suburban Southern town and she […]

A Mandate for More Students:

A Mandate for More Students: HBCUs shore up their images in effort to boost enrollmentsELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Pressured by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to boost enrollments, the state’s five public historically Black universities are revising their images and crafting aggressive sales pitches to attract more students. Officials at Fayetteville State […]

The Need for Closure

The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]

Community Colleges

BI What’s New

This fall, adding to its reputation as a leader in the sciences, Xavier University of Louisiana will become the nation’s first historically Black college or university to independently offer a degree in the field of computer engineering. The small liberal arts institution, which is located in New Orleans, will become the second university in the […]

Washington Briefs

Pell Grant Debate Sours House Budget TalksWASHINGTON — Debate on a fiscal 2001 education funding bill has taken an increasingly bitter turn as House leaders recently rejected Democratic attempts to add more money for Pell grants, among other programs for needy students.Republican leaders labeled out of order an amendment that would have increased the maximum […]

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