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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.

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.

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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.

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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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You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

BRONX, NY A controversy that erupted this spring over bilingual education at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY), has languished in the courts and turned into a war of words in the media.

Students

The relevance of race

The following was excepted from the convocation address titled “What Kind of Freedom” given by Duke University President Nannerl O. Keohane on Aug. 28.

Students

Spurring interaction: Cornell is counting on outreach programs to spur cross-racial and cross-ethnic interaction – Cornell University

Cornell University officials are hoping that student residential-housing outreach programs being launched this school year will help the upstate New York institution avoid the problems it experienced last spring when a conservative student publication offended many university students with an Ebonics parody.

Faculty & Staff

Central State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. Garland

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Fighting to overcome a political and financial crisis that nearly forced the school to close this summer, Central State University has hired a new president and terminated nineteen faculty members.

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Alabama Higher Ed Board Restricts System Employee Flex Policy

MONTGOMERY Ala. The state board of education took the first step Tuesday toward approving a new policy that would restrict the way system employees use flexible work schedules.

Students

Coming to grips with the problems of race – interview with Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education co-chair Thomas Kean – Interview

In addition to serving as a co-chair of the Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE), Thomas Kean, president of Drew University and former governor of New Jersey, was recently appointed to the president’s newly formed advisory commission on race. Following the CNIHE press conference, Gov. Kean discussed the report and the advisory commission with Black Issues In Higher Education:

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Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995

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Set up to fail? New restrictions on Central State University considered “punitive” by supporters

Central State University supporters fear that a compromise plan to rescue the school could end up killing it instead.

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Leadership & Policy: Page 265

Accreditation renewed for University of the District of Columbia

The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground

Hicks gets sacked by grambling state – Grambling State University Pres. Raymond Hicks

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

You say tomato, I say tomate – bilingual controversy at City University of New York’s Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College in Bronx, NY

The relevance of race

Spurring interaction: Cornell is counting on outreach programs to spur cross-racial and cross-ethnic interaction – Cornell University

Central State hires new president, fires one-sixth of faculty – Central State University’s John W. Garland

Alabama Higher Ed Board Restricts System Employee Flex Policy

Coming to grips with the problems of race – interview with Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education co-chair Thomas Kean – Interview

Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

Set up to fail? New restrictions on Central State University considered “punitive” by supporters

Academic Integrity Coordinator

Teaching Faculty Position for First-Year Engineering

Assistant Professor

Biology Instructor - Adjunct

Admissions and Recruitment Specialist

T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow