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Faculty & Staff

Creating a Competitive Edge

Creating a Competitive EdgeThe “competitive edge” is more than imperative in today’s recruitment climate for full-time, part-time, internship, and co-op positions. Specifically, students of color have to understand that a 3.0 GPA and above, academic honors, and letters of recommendation are not what create the total “competitive edge” when the competition is NOT other people […]

Community Colleges

Washington Briefs

Tax Break for Colleges WASHINGTON – The nation’s colleges and universities do not have to pay taxes on income generated from specialized credit cards that bear their names, logos or mascots, a federal appeals court has ruled.The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stems from […]

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks PromisingWASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall.HBCUs in 1997 received less than 1 percent of all higher […]

Tech Briefs

Making an Investment to Close the Digital Divide PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A lot of attention is being given, lately, to the digital divide between the information technology haves and have–nots. In an attempt to bridge that chasm, Brown University and MCI WorldCom, with the encouragement of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, have announced a new program that […]

Financial Aid Prospecting — Online

Financial Aid Prospecting — OnlineThe Internet Is Loaded With Valuable Financial Aid Information, but Few Campus Web Sites Are Designed to Help Them Find ItLog on to any of the hundreds of college Web sites now available on the Internet, and you’ll find everything from virtual tours to online applications. But too few of these […]

Faculty & Staff

BI What’s New

Pennsylvania State University’s College of Health and Human Development has opened a new Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts to train scholars to look at what impacts families in the context of culture, race and socioeconomic status. The center’s mission is to enhance the lives of families by developing partnerships between […]

BI News Brief

Minority Enrollment Continues to Drop at California Medical SchoolsOAKLAND, Calif. — University of California officials have appointed a task force to investigate why minority enrollment is dropping at the system’s five medical schools. In 1993, 103 Black and Mexican American students enrolled at University of California medical schools. This fall, the total was 59. That […]

Washington Briefs

As Default Rates Fall, HBCUs Face No SanctionsWASHINGTON — The nation’s student loan default rate has fallen to its lowest level since the federal government began collecting data in 1987.The 8.8 percent default rate for 1997 was down nearly a 1 percent from the previous year, and it represents the seventh consecutive decline from a […]

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’s

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’sWASHINGTON — Amid predictions of a federal budget meltdown, historically Black colleges and universities and sponsors of college access programs got a little bit of good news from the U.S. Senate this month.In its most definitive statement yet on the year 2000 education budget, Senate leaders came […]

Professional Appointments

AcademicDr. Christopher I. Chalokwu has been appointed vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of geology at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Previously, he was the funding dean of the school of arts and sciences and a professor of physical science at Benedict College in South Carolina. Chalokwu earned a bachelor’s and a master’s […]

Leadership & Policy

Misinformation Super Highway?

Misinformation Super Highway?If you spend any time on the Internet, you know that there is a wealth of information that can zip through your phone lines and into your home or office in the blink of an eye. Some of that information is useful and some of it — well — isn’t. Take, for example, […]

Bringing It Back to the Basics

Bringing It Back to the BasicsIn a High-Tech World Where Many Colleges Are Scrambling to Acquire the Most Advanced Curriculums, Others Are Being Progressive by Teaching the Fundamentals By Eleanor Lee YatesBALTIMORE — Michael Miller always struggled with school. “I was considered to be slow,” recalls the 26-year-old. After repeating the 10th grade twice — […]

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