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Georgia Regents Push to Increase Black Male Enrollment
Georgia Regents Push to Increase Black Male Enrollment ATLANTA Peer pressure and lack of parental support are among the reasons fewer Black men than Black women choose to attend college, Georgia’s Board of Regents was told last month in a report examining the phenomenon and suggesting ways to correct it. Another factor, the report said, […]
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Texas A&M to Open Branch Campus in Qatar
Texas A&M to Open Branch Campus in Qatar COLLEGE STATION, Texas Texas A&M University will open a branch campus in Qatar specializing in engineering education and research this fall, the university announced last month. “This is an extraordinary opportunity for Texas A&M to expand its international presence and to provide educational and research opportunities for […]
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Bethune-Cookman College To Cut 90 Jobs
Bethune-Cookman College To Cut 90 JobsDAYTONA BEACH, Fla.Bethune-Cookman College announced plans to eliminate 90 positions last month, reducing its work force by 14 percent. The board of trustees ordered the move so the small, historically Black school could “bring itself in line with peer institutions,” it said. The board hired a human resource consulting firm […]
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Homeland Security Tops List of Critical Higher Education Policy Issues
Homeland Security Tops List of Critical Higher Education Policy IssuesWASHINGTON Homeland security and affirmative action are at the top of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges’ (AGB) list of 10 public-policy issues that higher education leaders will need to address in the next two years. Published biennially, “Ten Public Policy Issues for […]
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Instructor Loses Retaliation Suit Against Washington College
Instructor Loses Retaliation Suit Against Washington CollegeTACOMA, Wash. A foreign-born math instructor has lost a suit accusing Tacoma Community College of retaliation after the board of trustees granted him tenure despite the adverse recommendation of a tenure review committee.Robert Tan failed to prove that the college had assigned him to teach primarily remedial-level courses in […]
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Benedict Raises $30 Million to Improve College
Benedict Raises $30 Million to Improve CollegeCOLUMBIA, S.C.Afirst for Benedict College, the South Carolina historically Black school recently completed a successful capital campaign, raising $30.1 million over six years. “We have attempted a few capital campaigns in the past, but none of our previous financial drives was as victorious as this campaign,” says Barbara C. […]
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Faculty Senates Sue Districts Over Hiring Rules
Faculty Senates Sue Districts Over Hiring Rules MISSION VIEJO, Calif.In an unprecedented move, the academic senates of Saddleback and Irvine Valley colleges have voted to sue their district chancellor and trustees over a new districtwide hiring policy that gives more power to administrators at the expense of faculty. Faculty within the South Orange County Community […]
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Lawmaker’s Wife, Nev. Colleges Settle Discrimination Suit
Lawmaker’s Wife, Nev. Colleges Settle Discrimination Suit LAS VEGASThe Nevada state university system has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by the wife of Assemblyman Wendell Williams. Zelda Williams will receive $49,900 from the University and Community College System of Nevada after a community college employee used a racial slur about her in 2001, her lawyer […]
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Morris Brown Trustees Appoint Chemistry Professor as Acting President
Morris Brown Trustees Appoint Chemistry Professor as Acting PresidentDr. Charles E. Taylor resigns following lost accreditation bid ATLANTALosing a bid to win back its accreditation, historically Black Morris Brown College is also losing its president. Dr. Charles E. Taylor, resigned a week after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools released a letter denying the […]
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Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action
Virginia Tech Reverses Decision on Affirmative Action BLACKSBURG, Va. A month after the Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as well as others, expressed disapproval of the university’s board of visitors’ decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in campus admissions, hiring and financial aid processes, the board restored its […]
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Morris Brown to Begin Process of Re-Accreditation
Morris Brown to Begin Process of Re-Accreditation ATLANTAMorris Brown College will begin the process of re-accreditation following the ruling of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) which denied its appeal for membership. “We are clearly disappointed by the ruling,” said Sixth District African Methodist Episcopal Bishop Frank C. Cummings, chairman of the Morris […]
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Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions Initiatives
Education Department Highlights ‘Race-Neutral’ Admissions InitiativesAmericans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action, secretary saysBy Charles Dervarics Americans should not look to achieve diversity through affirmative action and other “shortcuts that divide us by race,” says U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige as he mounts a new Bush administration campaign to showcase ‘race-neutral’ approaches […]
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