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Black, Hispanic Leaders Stress Need for More Financial Aid
Black, Hispanic Leaders Stress Need for More Financial AidMany high-achieving students still unable to afford a college educationLow-income, high-achieving students face tremendous barriers to success in college, largely due to limited financial aid funds, representatives of Black and Hispanic colleges told Congress last month.“Let me be very clear — adequate student financial assistance is fundamentally […]
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Harvard Announces Participation in ‘Scholars at Risk Network’
Harvard Announces Participation in ‘Scholars at Risk Network’CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers announced recently that Harvard University is participating in the “Scholars at Risk Network” and has selected its first two visiting fellows, Dr. Mehrangiz Kar and Dr. Wolde Mesfin, for the academic year 2002-03. “In the 1930s, certain institutions stepped forward and […]
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The Living Legacy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
The Living Legacy of Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesI recently had the honor of speaking to this year’s graduates of Hampton University at the school’s 134th commencement exercises. As a 1970 Hampton alumnus and president for the past 10 years of a predominantly White university, I have gained valuable perspective on what leaders of universities […]
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Former Congressman Named Interim President at Wilberforce
Former Congressman Named Interim President at WilberforceWILBERFORCE, OhioA former congressman has agreed to serve as president of Wilberforce University for one year while school officials search for a permanent successor to retiring president John Henderson. The interim appointment of the Rev. Floyd Flake, 56, of New York City, was announced late last month. Flake, a […]
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FAMU Trustees Approve Financial Package for New President, Raise Tuition
FAMU Trustees Approve Financial Package for New President, Raise TuitionTALLAHASSEE, Fla.Florida A&M University’s trustees approved a financial package last month that totals more than $350,000 annually for new president Dr. Fred Gainous.The trustees also decided to increase tuition for the upcoming school year, raising it 5 percent for in-state students and 10 percent for out-of-state […]
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State Leaders Convene to Address College Alcohol Problems
State Leaders Convene to Address College Alcohol ProblemsDENVERRepresentatives from 39 states gathered in Denver last month for the fourth annual Statewide Initiatives Leadership Institute, a four-day event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention to address how comprehensive regional efforts can curb college student underage and […]
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Women College Presidents Share Perspectives on Leadership
Women College Presidents Share Perspectives on Leadership WASHINGTONWomen college and university presidents and chancellors came together to discuss leadership and ways that women leaders can affect higher education at the American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education (OWHE) Fourth Women Presidents’ Summit last month in Washington. “The Summit enables women presidents and […]
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Changes to SAT I Sparks Disparity Debate
Changes to SAT I Sparks Disparity DebateFirst revision in eight years reintroduces the question of biasBy Gabrielle FinleyThe new changes to the SAT I test may create an even larger disparity in test scores among minority and majority students, says an advocacy organization for fair testing.However, Gaston Caperton, president of the College Board, which administers […]
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Filling the Budget GAP
Filling the Budget GAPUniversity administrators face tough choices as states cut deep into higher education budgetsBy Page Boinest Melton Norfolk State University President Marie McDemmond hoped this year to tackle the university’s student space shortage. Troubled that financial aid students spill out the doors of the administration building, and that admissions officers interview prospective students […]
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Research & Reality
Research & RealityMorgan State takes two-prong approach to stemming educational leadership deficit.BALTIMOREJuanita Eagleson, a former associate dean at Southeastern University in Washington, was in the midst of a  “career doldrums” when she heard that Dr. Howard Simmons, the former executive director of the Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, was […]
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Hoodwinked and Bamboozled: Black Colleges, Desegregation And Selling Out
Hoodwinked and Bamboozled: Black Colleges, Desegregation And Selling OutIt is a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the end of the semester. I am at home trying to grade final exams that are due by Friday. As I often do, I have a video playing quietly in the background. Today it has been Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” […]
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Criticism of Howard University Hospital
Criticism of Howard University Hospital Residency Programs Raises QuestionsBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAn unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington Post and the subsequent reorganization of the oversight committee that manages […]
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