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Winning at Any Cost
Winning at Any CostBy Julianne Malveaux Under ordinary circumstances, I wouldn’t know a Tony Cole from a hole in the wall, or a Jim Harrick, either Junior or Senior, from a lamppost. Regular readers know me as a sports skeptic, not a sports fan. But I happened to be flying through Atlanta after Cole, a […]
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Clark Atlanta, Spelman Inaugurate New Presidents
Clark Atlanta, Spelman Inaugurate New Presidents ATLANTAClark Atlanta University and Spelman College held inauguration ceremonies for their new presidents last month. Dr. Walter D. Broadnax, who assumed leadership of Clark Atlanta University last August, was sworn into office on March 21 at that campus’ Symphony Hall. The celebration punctuated that campus’ annual Founders Week observance. […]
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Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative Action
Coalition Challenges Virginia Tech Ban on Affirmative ActionBLACKSBURG, Va. Black alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were joined by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and others last month in expressing disapproval of the university’s board of visitors decision to bar the consideration of race and gender in the campus admissions, hiring and […]
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UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime
UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]
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Lincoln University May Fight for Control of Valuable Art, Judge Says
Lincoln University May Fight for Control of Valuable Art, Judge Says PHILADELPHIAA judge ruled last month that Lincoln University, a historically Black college outside Philadelphia, may fight a court petition that would dilute its control over a valuable, world-renowned collection of art. Lincoln opposes a petition by The Barnes Foundation that would eliminate Lincoln’s long-standing […]
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Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities
Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities COLUMBIA, Mo.The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase […]
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Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program
Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program BATON ROUGE, La.Entertainer Steve Harvey and his wife, Mary, have contributed $40,000 to establish a book award program at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La. The Harveys also have pledged to donate at least $20,000 annually to support their book award program at the university. […]
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Talbert O. Shaw Retires After 15 Years at Shaw University
Talbert O. Shaw Retires After 15 Years at Shaw UniversityBy Eleanor Lee Yates RALEIGH, N.C.At a time when some historically Black colleges are making headlines for financial mismanagement and woes, Shaw University’s outgoing president is being remembered for daring to take the reins of a financially troubled institution and turn those troubles into opportunities.“Those were […]
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Clarence G. Newsome Named 13th President of Shaw University
Clarence G. Newsome Named 13th President of Shaw University RALEIGH, N.C.Dr. Clarence G. Newsome, longtime dean of Howard University’s School of Divinity, becomes Shaw University’s 13th president on April 1. Newsome’s appointment was officially announced in mid-February at a news conference for trustees, alumni, students as well as the media. Newsome, 52, says within 10 […]
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Freedom of Inquiry Requires Diversity
Freedom of Inquiry Requires DiversityBy Dr. Mac A. Stewart One of the last political stories of 2002 was the fall of Mississippian Trent Lott from his role as majority leader of the U.S. Senate, a result of ill-chosen comments at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration. Many lessons can be drawn from this incident, but one […]
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Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement
Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement CLEMSON, S.C.As academicians anxiously await the outcome of the University of Michigan case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and what will be a precedent setting decision for higher education admissions procedures, more than 200 academic professionals, admissions officers and diversity advocates from around the nation gathered […]
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Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement
Educators Explore Best Practices In Black Student Achievement CLEMSON, S.C.As academicians anxiously await the outcome of the University of Michigan case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court and what will be a precedent setting decision for higher education admissions procedures, more than 200 academic professionals, admissions officers and diversity advocates from around the nation gathered […]
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