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Community Leaders in the Making

Community Leaders in the MakingAlthough Morgan State University doesn’t have service-learning courses, the Baltimore-based HBCU has an extensive community service program, which is coordinated through a central community service office. Most of the programs are targeted to public school students — elementary to high school. Student-volunteers coordinate the projects. “The student-leaders are what make these […]

April 24, 2002

Former Norfolk State Student Sues Fraternity, Member Over Hazing

Former Norfolk State Student Sues Fraternity, Member Over HazingNORFOLK, Va.Michlen Robinson has painful memories of fraternity life at Norfolk State University: paddle swats, punches and a punctured lung.In a lawsuit filed last month in circuit court, Robinson says he was a hazing victim of Phi Beta Sigma on Sept. 21, 2000. He’s suing the national […]

April 24, 2002

Scholarships to Aid Students With Drug Records

Scholarships to Aid Students With Drug RecordsWASHINGTONOpponents of a 1998 law that denies federal aid to thousands of college students with criminal drug records are trying to work around the law by offering financial help to those affected. A coalition of drug-law reform groups last month inaugurated a scholarship for those denied aid because of […]

April 24, 2002

Ku Klux Klan Mural to Remain Hanging In Indiana Classroom

Ku Klux Klan Mural to Remain Hanging In Indiana ClassroomBLOOMINGTON, Ind.A mural from the 1930s that includes images of the Ku Klux Klan will remain hanging in an Indiana University classroom, despite objections from the university’s Black Student Union (see Black Issues, March. 28). Chancellor Sharon Stephens Brehm announced the mural’s fate late last month, […]

April 24, 2002

Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony Criticized

Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony CriticizedEast Lansing, Mich.Critics are taking aim at a new, optional Michigan State University event that will honor Black graduating seniors next month, saying it is unfair and promoting separatism. In one of several letters sent to the MSU student newspaper, Michael Cykowski, a senior computer science major, wrote: “What would […]

April 24, 2002

Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student Group

Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student GroupBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAt the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call for members to get involved in recruitment.Roughly 250 students, a number of whom were undergraduates, turned […]

April 24, 2002

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Elaine J. Copeland has been named president of Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C. Previously, she was acting president of the college. Copeland earned a bachelor’s degree from Livingstone College, master’s degrees from Winthrop University and the University of Illinois, and a doctorate from Oregon State University.Dr. Paul Killpatrick has been named […]

April 10, 2002

Just Another Angry Black Man?

Just Another Angry Black Man?An open letter from Penn State faculty, staff and graduate students on Nolan Richardson’s firing The only surprising thing about University of Arkansas head basketball coach Nolan Richardson’s so-called “eruption” at a press conference in February was that it took so long. While some attention has been paid to the ridiculously […]

April 10, 2002

A Real Team Player

A Real Team Player Wofford College’s Ben Foster makes doing for others a daily priority and a future goal.By Lydia LumPicture the average running back, sprinting down the field, rushing yards and scoring touchdowns. Then picture Wofford College’s Ben Foster, who is better known for his blocking than for rushing and scoring — a fact […]

April 10, 2002

2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars

2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports ScholarsGiving it Their Best ShotExcelling in academics, athletics and service to the community is a challenge that very few student-athletes can master. The late tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. mastered all three, which is why Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholar Award in his honor. This annual […]

April 10, 2002

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?The academy seems to think so.The University of California-Berkeley has just released a set of statistics that should give pause to every female academic of child-bearing age.Women who have children early in their careers — that is, between one and five years after receiving a doctorate — are […]

March 27, 2002

Developing Quality Dissertations in the Social Sciences

Black Student Union Wants Klan Mural Removed

Black Student Union Wants Klan Mural RemovedBLOOMINGTON, Ind.Some students at Indiana University are pressing school officials to remove a mural that has been hanging in a classroom since 1941, saying the image of Ku Klux Klan members and a burning cross creates a hostile learning environment. The 12-foot-square painting by the late artist Thomas Hart […]

March 27, 2002

Students Required to Have C Average for Housing

Students Required to Have C Average for HousingFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Students at Fayetteville State will have to maintain at least a C average to live on campus next fall because the university expects about 600 freshmen to seek housing. The school has space available for 1,200 students. About 4,300 students are enrolled at the university. Gail […]

March 27, 2002

Many Graduates Face Unmanageable Debt, Study Says

Many Graduates Face Unmanageable Debt, Study SaysWASHINGTONAn estimated 39 percent of student borrowers are graduating with unmanageable levels of student loan debt, according to “The Burden of Borrowing,” a new report by the State PIRG’s Higher Education Project. The analysis, based on data from the Department of Education’s National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, also shows […]

March 27, 2002

Florida Legislators to Cut Support for Race-Conscious Scholarships

Florida Legislators to Cut Support for Race-Conscious ScholarshipsTALLAHASSEE, Fla.Florida’s race-conscious scholarships to help minorities attend law school may be headed for elimination now that the state is setting up new law schools. With new law schools starting up in Miami and Orlando, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and state legislators have agreed to cut support for […]

March 27, 2002

Engaging in the Liberating Experience of Education

Engaging in the Liberating Experience of EducationThe ominous reports of the state of education in this country reflect the desire of American education to rigorously prepare its students to the extent that the measurement of their academic performance can be compared to high-performing students anywhere. However, measurements of performance have evolved into high-stakes accountability, and […]

March 13, 2002

University of Tennessee Offers Grants to Attract Black Students

University of Tennessee Offers Grants to Attract Black StudentsKNOXVILLE, Tenn.Under pressure to increase minority enrollment, the University of Tennessee will begin a new scholarship program this fall to attract Black students. “This program is meant to make more resources available to African American students,” says Richard Bayer, dean of admissions. “We think we can do […]

March 13, 2002

‘One Struggle, One Battle, One Survival’

‘One Struggle, One Battle, One Survival’Student think tank ponders the future, role of HBCUs By David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.It seemed fitting that more than 400 college students from across the country converged on Tennessee State University’s campus last month for the first HBCU “think tank.” Until last year, historically Black TSU was bound by a federal […]

March 13, 2002