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All News Doesn’t Make it to Print
All News Doesn’t Make it to PrintWith Black college newspapers struggling to maintain a campus presence, many  Black journalism students are finding it harder to hone and showcase their skills The Campus Chronicle is a feisty little student newspaper at Alcorn State University in rural Mississippi. Last year, the paper won several awards in the […]
February 16, 2000
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Tech Briefs
Campus Policy Hinders Student’s Efforts to Promote Online BookstoreJOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Johnstown campus says school officials reversed a decision to allow her to distribute brochures about a discount online bookstore, saying it would hurt sales at the campus shop. Lee Ann Diffendal, a freshman communications major, says her […]
February 2, 2000
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African American Student Programs vs. Diversity
African American Student Programs vs. Diversity As more student groups scramble to get a share of the diversity pie, is the African American slice shrinking?A $46,000 annual budget may seem reasonable in these economic times for a campus organization of 1,200 students. But when that student group happens to be African American and other minority groups […]
February 2, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsClayton Cobb has been named director of multicultural affairs at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He previously served as assistant director for registered student organizations and multicultural programs at Illinois State University. Cobb earned a bachelor’s in English from Viterbo College in Wisconsin and a master’s in the cultural foundation’s of education from the […]
February 2, 2000
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A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish Students
A Tough Decision for Yale’s Jewish StudentsIn 1920, newly-minted Yale graduate Morris Sweetkind, enticed by the life of the mind, resolved to stay in New Haven while his classmates left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Rather than cash in on his prestigious degree, Sweetkind applied to pursue graduate work in Yale’s English department. While other […]
February 2, 2000
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BI What’s New
Pace University’s School of Computer Science and Information Systems now offers a doctorate of professional studies degree in computing studies for technology professionals. The degree includes part-time distance learning study with courses in applied science, information systems, telecommunications and emerging technologies.The 48-credit program can be completed through part-time study with limited residency in three years, […]
January 19, 2000
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College By the Numbers
College By the Numbers When I was provost of the University of Michigan, the medical school had a student prize for medical diagnosis: the “S.S.W. Award.” The initials stood for “swift, sure and wrong.”I am reminded of it when I hear reports celebrating Texas’ “10 percent solution” — its experiment in maintaining diversity in its […]
January 19, 2000
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As Different as Day and Night
As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]
January 5, 2000
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Events
EventsJanuaryJan.  4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th National African American Student Leadership Conference“New Dimensions of African American […]
January 5, 2000
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DecemberDec. 27-30, 1999Modern Languages Association115th Annual ConventionChicagoPhone:  (212) 475-9972E-mail: mkraus@mla.orgWeb: www.mla.org JanuaryJan.  4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th […]
December 22, 1999
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Noteworthy Briefs
Minority Business School Faculty Increases 50 Percent in Five YearsCHICAGO — Minority representation among the nation’s business school faculties has increased by almost 50 percent in five years, according to The Ph.D. Project.The project to attract and encourage more minorities to become business professors started in 1994. At that time, there were 294 African Americans, […]
December 22, 1999
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Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, Richer
Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, RicherGo-it-alone strategy puts more than a little sugar in Grambling’s and Southern’s bowlsBy Scott DyerNEW ORLEANS — The annual Bayou Classic football game between Louisiana’s two major historically Black universities has built a reputation over the past 26 years as the biggest Black happening in America.Each year on the weekend after […]
December 22, 1999
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NYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation Cessation
NYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation CessationNEW YORK — The City University of New York has decided to bar remedial students from its four-year programs, the latest such decision by the nation’s higher education officials. On a 9-6 vote last month, the New York Board of Regents said the plan is consistent with the university’s […]
December 22, 1999
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BI What’s New
The intent is “to do everything we can to connect the School of Education to the teachers of Jackson and the state [of Mississippi] as a whole,”says Dr. Ivan Banks, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Jackson State University. That is why beginning this spring, the historically Black institution will offer Classroom Management EDCI […]
December 22, 1999
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Preparing to Cross the River
Preparing to Cross the River When I was growing up in Falmouth, Ky., I can remember my grandmother singing a song that put me to sleep and awakened me. The title of this song is “Shall We Gather At the River.” The final chorus still lingers in my mind:  “Shall we gather at the river, […]
December 22, 1999
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Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy
Achieving Career Satisfaction in the AcademyToday’s headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the achievement gap between Black and White students? How to prepare educators to teach students of color? What’s going to happen now that court-ordered […]
November 24, 1999
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Events
DECEMBERDec. 1-5, 1999National Council of Negro WomenMillennium ConventionCrystal City, Va.Phone: (202) 737-0120Web: www.ncnw.comDec. 6-7, 1999The College Board’sOffice of Adult LearningNational Conference“College Students 2000: The Impact of Adult and Nontraditional Students on American Campuses”Washington, D.C.Phone: (212) 713-8316E-mail: oals@collegboard.orgWeb: www.collegeboard.comDec. 9-10, 1999The College Board’sOffice of Adult Learning National Conference“Delivering Online Courses to Adult Students: Options for Effective […]
November 24, 1999
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Tech Briefs
Penn State Officials Respond to Racist E-mails UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Even though the racist e-mails that were circulating through Penn State last month only reached a relatively small number of students, the entire Pennsylvania State University community may feel its impact, according to a report in the Daily Collegian, the campus newspaper.To help deal […]
November 24, 1999
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