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Leadership & Policy
Looking out for their future – Black and Latino students seek to support University of Michigan as defendants in reverse discrimination lawsuit
Washington National and local civil rights groups are hoping to accomplish in Michigan what Texas officials failed to do during Hopwood v. Texas — that is, prevent the restriction of educational opportunities for Black and Latino students.
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Faculty & Staff
Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University
When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.
Leadership & Policy
Satcher to play key role in minority health issues – US Surgeon General David Satcher
David Satcher’s confirmation as U.S. Surgeon General will give the former Meharry Medical College president a leading role in a new Clinton administration effort to improve health care for people of color.
Students
Back from the brink – averted crisis for Central State University, Ohio
WILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal.
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Students
Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils. – book reviews
As a Black female psychologist who has worked in many settings — most recently in a university setting — and as a student who attended a predominantly White university in the Northeast, I can vividly recall the feelings of belonging and support that I experienced in meeting other members of the Black Graduate Student Association. Only within that fellowship at the predominantly White university which I attended did I feel whole.
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Faculty & Staff
The word from Moses – educator Yolanda T. Moses – Interview – Cover Story
“WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT AN INSTITUTION BECOMES THEIR REALITY UNLESS THAT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD.”
Students
Chancellor of Southern University resigns amid scholarship flap – Marvin Yates
BATON ROUGE, La. The chancellor of Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus abruptly resigned in the wake of a scholarship scandal.
Students
Scholarship scandal in Louisiana
Baton Rouge, La. Last fall when William “Bud” Davis, the chancellor of State University, suddenly resigned his position in the wake of charges that his office awarded nearly fifty minority scholarships to White students, many educators and politicians around the state sighed a collective relief that this most recent scholarship fiasco appeared to end as Davis departed.
Leadership & Policy
Accreditation renewed for University of the District of Columbia
After nearly a decade of financial strife, media misrepresentation, and structural challenges, the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) received some positive encouragement regarding its future.
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Leadership & Policy
The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground
For hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poor adults, community colleges have long delivered their best chance for gaining sufficient education and training to land a job that could break their dependence on welfare.
Leadership & Policy
Hicks gets sacked by grambling state – Grambling State University Pres. Raymond Hicks
Grambling State University president Dr. Raymond A. Hicks is leaving his job after losing the confidence of the Louisiana Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities while ongoing financial and administrative problems continue to plague the northern Louisiana school.
Leadership & Policy
Working Capitol Hill: presidents of historically Black institutions spend week in Washington, where HUD grants $6.5 million to seventeen HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities; Dept of Housing and Urban Development
WASHINGTON The observance of National Historically Black Col leges and Universities Week drew more than sixty presidents from institutions dedicated to the higher education pursuits of African Americans to the nation’s capital in late September for meetings with federal officials. The week culminated with the announcement of a multi-million dollar grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to several historically Black colleges and universities.
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