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Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew

Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew By Julianne Malveaux The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report last month, “College Affordability in Jeopardy,” that showed public colleges “continue to become less affordable for students and families.” According to the independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit center, 16 states increased tuition and […]

March 12, 2003

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 […]

March 12, 2003

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. […]

March 12, 2003

Report: College Affordability in Jeopardy

Report: College Affordability in Jeopardy SAN JOSE, Calif.Public higher education tuition has soared in the past year as state spending for colleges and universities has dropped sharply, according to a new report on college affordability released last month.“The states are responding to the budget crisis by passing major cuts on to colleges and universities — […]

March 12, 2003

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek Change

Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek ChangeBy Charles Dervarics In an effort to promote mutual goals, leaders of Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges are endorsing an ambitious agenda that includes a doubling of the maximum Pell grant and new incentives to promote student enrollment in math, science, teaching and other high-demand specialties. With […]

March 12, 2003

Do State Academic Merit Scholarships Discriminate Against African Americans?

Do State Academic Merit Scholarships Discriminate Against African Americans?By Kenneth E. Redd One of the biggest concerns for many families is how they are going to pay their children’s college expenses. In the academic year 2002-2003, the average cost of attendance at four-year public colleges and universities was more than $9,100, while the average price […]

February 26, 2003

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 […]

February 26, 2003

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 […]

February 26, 2003

Program Seeks to Improve Student Attainment at Minority-Serving Schools

Program Seeks to Improve Student Attainment at Minority-Serving Schools WASHINGTONTwo higher education groups have come together to launch a five-year initiative to improve retention, achievement and institutional effectiveness at minority-serving institutions. The project, Building Engagement and Attainment of Minority Students (BEAMS), was announced earlier this month by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), in […]

February 26, 2003

Paving the Way into Technology Transfer

Paving the Way into Technology TransferBy Ronald Roach As a graduate student in computer science, Monica Williams is intent on having a career that gets her into the senior management ranks of the companies for which she will work. In the spring of 2001, near the end of her first year of graduate studies at […]

February 12, 2003

A Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month.

Month of Celebrations: A look at how colleges and universities are celebrating Black History Month. Alabama A&M University, NormalBlack History Month Theme: “The Souls of Black Folk: Centennial Reflections”17th Annual “Celebrating Black History Thru Jazz” Reception featuring Pianist/Composer Randy Weston; Benjamin Banneker Banquet; Poetry: Poet Joye Pettis, author of African-American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources. […]

February 12, 2003

A Tribute to Carter G. Woodson

A Tribute to Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950)By Dr. James L. Conyers Jr. Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson is one of the most important but largely overlooked figures in American history. He challenged conventional wisdom, questioned authority and sought equity. As a result of Woodson’s scholarly contributions and activism, Negro History Week was established in 1926 and […]

February 12, 2003

Johnson C. Smith Receives Largest Gift In School’s History

Johnson C. Smith Receives Largest Gift In School’s History CHARLOTTE, N.C.Johnson C. Smith University received more than $3.9 million last month from the Duke Endowment, a private foundation established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke. The grant, which is provided annually for both general operating support and for special projects and programs, […]

February 12, 2003

Financial Aid Study to Focus On Graduate Students

Financial Aid Study to Focus On Graduate Students WASHINGTONThe National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and Access Group Inc. announced the launch of the 2003 Survey of Graduate Aid Policies, Practices and Procedures (SOGAPPP), a research project designed to provide new information on the funding, distribution and administration of financial aid for graduate […]

February 12, 2003

Students Disciplined in Mississippi Graffiti Incident

Students Disciplined in Mississippi Graffiti Incident OXFORD, Miss.Three University of Mississippi students have been placed on probation and ordered to perform community service and write research papers for their role in a racial graffiti incident in a campus residence hall last November (see Black Issues, Jan. 2). A University Judicial Council, made up of four […]

February 12, 2003

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Extends Reach To High School Students

Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund Extends Reach To High School Students NEW YORKThe Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF), an advocate for public Black colleges and universities, is extending its reach to high school students with a $4.9 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant, announced last month, will be used to develop […]

February 12, 2003

Julian Bond Helps Dedicate Auburn Diversity Center

Julian Bond Helps Dedicate Auburn Diversity Center AUBURN, Ala. An overflow crowd greeted Julian Bond last month at Auburn University in Alabama. Bond,a prominent civil rights activist and chairman of the NAACP, was the featured speaker during the dedication of the university’s new Center for Diversity and Race Relations. Auburn found itself in the national […]

February 12, 2003

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks WASHINGTONA visit to Howard University’s campus from members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. last month was worth a million bucks to the historically Black school in Washington, D.C. The national sorority presented university officials with a $1 million check during activities on the campus marking the […]

January 29, 2003