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Stillman Latest HBCU to Go Wireless

Stillman Latest HBCU to Go WirelessTUSCALOOSA, Ala.Stillman College has joined the ranks of historically Black colleges and universities that have established a campus-wide wireless computing network for its students, faculty and staff. In addition to establishing a wireless network this fall, the college has supplied every one of its 1,513 students with a laptop computer. […]

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Pittsburgh Couple Gives $3 Million

Pittsburgh Couple Gives $3 Million To Penn State for Science, BusinessSTATE COLLEGE, Pa.A Pittsburgh couple has donated $3 million to create endowed faculty chairs at Penn State University in the Eberly College of Science and the Smeal College of Business Administration. Ronald R. Davenport, who earned his undergraduate degree in business from Penn State, is […]

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Spelman College President Announces Retirement

Spelman College President Announces RetirementATLANTADr. Audrey Forbes Manley, the eighth president and the first alumna president of Spelman College, announced her retirement at a college convocation ceremony last month. “When I accepted this position of honor, I identified a number of goals for a five-year tenure that I believed would enhance our distinctive legacy of […]

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Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among Blacks

Meharry, Vanderbilt to Fund Study of Cancer Among BlacksNASHVILLE, Tenn. A $22 million grant announced last month for researchers at Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Institute will fund a multistate study to explain why Blacks die of cancer at disproportionately high rates. The five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will be used for […]

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to Students

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to StudentsThe College Board in two recent studies reported that college tuition and fees in 2001-2002 had increased an average of between 5.5 and 7.7 percent at four-year institutions, and between 5.5 and 5.8 percent at two-year institutions, while a record of more than $74 […]

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What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?

What Lies Ahead for Michigan’s Affirmative Action Cases?Many wonder what Bollinger’s departure will mean for the battle to preserve the university’s admissions policiesBy Erik LordsANN ARBOR, Mich.When University of Michigan president Lee Bollinger confirmed earlier this month that he will become Columbia University’s next president, it triggered speculation about who will replace the popular leader […]

Standing Up for Diversity

Standing Up for DiversityAs a university established for deaf students, Gallaudet’s diversity initiatives seek to further empower and enlighten its community.By Phaedra BrothertonWASHINGTONWhen Jerry C. Lee, former president of Gallaudet University — the Washington, D.C.-based university established for deaf and hard of hearing students — resigned in 1987, students rallied on campus for the board […]

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The New FAMU Trustees

The New FAMU TrusteesAt least one state official describes the new Florida A&M Board of Trustees as “perhaps the strongest the governor has pulled together.” The new trustees, who were named June 15, range in age from senior citizens to a college student. They are Black, Latino and White; Republicans and Democrats. They range in […]

Timeline of Change

Timeline of ChangeFebruary 2000 Florida board of regents adopts Gov. Jeb Bush’s One Florida Plan, which eliminates the use of affirmative action policies in admissions in the state in exchange for a system giving special consideration to students who demonstrate economic or educational disadvantage. One Florida also guarantees admission to high school students who rank in […]

What’s in FAMU’S FUTURE?

What’s in FAMU’S FUTURE? With Its Leadership in transition, Will the country’s top producer of Black undergraduates sustain its momentum ?By Cheryl D. FieldsTallahassee, Fla.s unsettling as it can be, change is one of the inevitabilities of the human condition. It can present torrents of unimaginable horrors as easily as it can serve up blue […]

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Plan to Boost Minority Enrollment at UC Campuses Stalled for Lack of Funds

Plan to Boost Minority Enrollment at UC Campuses Stalled for Lack of FundsOAKLAND, Calif.An attempt to boost minority enrollment at the University of California by guaranteeing admission to the top 12.5 percent of each high school class has stalled for lack of funds. The UC board of regents voted in July to make the change, […]

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Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little Fallout

Southern University Raises Admissions Standards With Little FalloutBut Baton Rouge Community College experiences 70 percent enrollment jump.By Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, LaLast summer, when Southern University was poised to raise its admission standards as part of a federal desegregation settlement, school officials were bracing for a loss of 700 students — or about 8 percent of […]

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