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Historical Straight Talk About Math

Historical Straight Talk About MathContrary to some Eurocentric approaches to teaching mathematics, ethnomathematicians instruct their students about how people of all cultures have used math over the course of history. In his courses, Dr. Eduardo Arismendi-Pardi of California’s Orange Coast College, cites references to the Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, Mayans, Africans, Latin Americans and Incas, all […]

Faculty & Staff

Community College Faculty

Community College FacultyThough pursuing research can be difficult at two-year colleges, many scholars of color are drawn by the opportunities to teach an increasingly diverse student populationBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoColumbus, Ga.Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Marilyn Howard fit the classic profile of the community college student. A first-generation college student from a working-class family, Howard did […]

Community Colleges

Community Colleges: More Than a Reasonable Alternative to Success

Community Colleges: More Than a Reasonable Alternative to SuccessTwenty-six years ago when I began my professional career, I told the dean with whom I interviewed that the reason I wanted to teach at a community college was because students who enrolled there did so because they wanted an education. Not because of the football team […]

Roaring up from Behind

Roaring up from BehindWhile a report from the Southern Regional Education Board acknowledges falling short of remedial education goals, one college offers an example of developmental successLARGO, Md. — They don’t like calling the students “at risk.” “Underprepared” is a more accurate phrase. They also don’t like to use the term “remedial education.” “Educational development” […]

Remediation Reform

Remediation ReformOnly time will tell whether California’s remediation policy will continue to turn out success stories or if disadvantaged students who can’t catch up in time will mark the system’s biggest failure. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Kountz is feeling the pressure. Having completed his first year of classes at California State University-Sacramento, the Richmond, Calif., […]

Good News Doesn’t Close Gaps

Good News Doesn’t Close GapsFour gaps define the African American economic experience for me — the income gap, the Digital Divide (or access gap), the credit gap and the education gap.In terms of the income gap, African Americans still earn a fraction of what Whites earn. While that fraction is larger with education, the gap […]

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 […]

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Morgan State University

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Grand Rapids Community College

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