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Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History Makers

Oral History Project Preserves Stories Of Black History MakersVideotaped interviews ultimately to be made available in digital archivesBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports One hundred years from now when a scholar researches the Black community of the early 21st century, he or she should have access to the HistoryMakers digital archive, a collection of videotaped […]

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Morris Brown Shortens Spring Semester

Morris Brown Shortens Spring Semester ATLANTATroubled Morris Brown College announced it would abridge its 15-week spring semester into seven weeks so students can complete classes before an accreditation appeal hearing. Last month, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools revoked accreditation at the private, historically Black college (see Black Issues, Jan. 2). Earlier this month, […]

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UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

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Hampton President To Take a Year’s Sabbatical

Hampton President To Take a Year’s Sabbatical HAMPTON, Va.Hampton University President William R. Harvey is taking a sabbatical after 25 years in office to work on a book, school officials said. Harvey could begin his time off next July, said Provost JoAnn Haysbert, who will lead the private university during his absence. Harvey is taking […]

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Morris Brown May Seek Accreditation With Another Agency

Morris Brown May Seek Accreditation With Another AgencyOfficials plan to cut jobs, start fund-raising campaign to save school ATLANTAMorris Brown College will seek accreditation from another agency if it loses an appeal of its loss of standing with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, says president Dr. Charles Taylor. Taylor said being accredited with […]

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Our Raison D’être

Our Raison D’être This particular edition hits on the complex and often painful issue of race. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois said almost 100 years ago upon the publication of The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” And it looks like the same will be true […]

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More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows

More Women, Minorities Head Colleges, But Rate of Increase Slows WASHINGTONThe rate of increase in the number of women and minorities serving as college presidents slowed during the past three years according to The American College President: 2002 Edition, the results of a new survey of college presidents released last month by the American Council […]

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Grambling Welcomes Extended ‘Probation’ Status; Others Face Harsh Reality

Grambling Welcomes Extended ‘Probation’ Status; Others Face Harsh Reality BATON ROUGE, La.Troubled Grambling State University has shown enough progress in cleaning up its finances that the regional accrediting agency decided last month to extend its probation for another year. At the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ annual meeting in San Antonio, the agency’s executive […]

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Congressional Black Caucus Selects New Leaders

Congressional Black Caucus Selects New LeadersBy Charles DervaricsRep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., will head the Congressional Black Caucus in 2003 after winning a December election among caucus members. Cummings, who is entering his fourth term, is a Baltimore attorney and former state legislator who has a strong record of support for education. He will replace Rep. […]

Faculty & Staff

Professors: Higher Education’s Change Agents

Professors: Higher Education’s Change Agents All of us can remember a professor that made a difference when we were in college. We remember both those professors we absolutely adored as well as those we loathed. Ironically, we learned important lifelong lessons from both. From the ones that were in our corner and supportive, we learned […]

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A Shared Responsibility

A Shared ResponsibilityBluefield State’s new president makes college’s success a community agendaBy Kendra Hamilton Dr. Albert L. Walker, the new president of Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is a career educator. He has taught in public schools and institutions of higher education since 1967. Previously, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs and a […]

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