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Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student Laptops
Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student LaptopsBOSTON M assachusetts state colleges soon may join a handful of public campuses requiring that students buy and use their own laptops. The initial three-year plan, which would require state funding, includes $54 million that would go toward discounts and toward  full and partial […]
November 8, 2000
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Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange Programs
Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange ProgramsTUSKEGEE, Ala.Students and faculty at Tuskegee University here and the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin participating in a joint exchange program.Initially, the program will feature the exchange of six to 10 undergraduate students in both directions. Those exchanges will last for one semester. Faculty exchanges are scheduled to […]
November 8, 2000
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Georgia Wants More White Students To Enroll at State’s HBCUs
Georgia Wants More White Students To Enroll at State’s HBCUsATLANTA Looking to increase diversity at all its schools, the University System of Georgia wants more White students to enroll at the state’s three historically Black public colleges.“There is educational value in studying with people that are different than yourself,” says Dr. Stephen Portch, the system’s […]
November 8, 2000
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Racist Incidents in Ga. Lead to Sanctions, Unity Jog
Racist Incidents in Ga. Lead to Sanctions, Unity JogATLANTA Oglethorpe University has handed down sanctions against four fraternities after students participating in a cross-country meet complained of being racially harassed and assaulted. Oglethorpe’s president, Dr. Larry Large, says officials at Clark Atlanta University and Morris Brown College — two predominantly Black colleges who participated in […]
November 8, 2000
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HBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan Defaults
HBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan DefaultsAn in-depth review of new federal data shows that historically Black colleges and universities are making major inroads in reducing defaults, particularly at institutions that had high rates for much of the 1990s.For 1998, only four of the nation’s HBCUs had student loan default rates that could place […]
November 8, 2000
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Reversing the Plight of African American Male College Students
Reversing the Plight of African American Male College Students Scholars, both African American and Caucasian, have addressed the plight of the African American college student attending a predominantly White college or university. Of special concern is the African American male. Although African American men and women bear similar sociological and psychological scars of racism and […]
October 25, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsLee Hampton is the new executive director of corporate and foundation development at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Previously Hampton was the vice chancellor for university advancement at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Hampton earned a bachelor’s in English from Dillard University and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. […]
October 25, 2000
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Whatever Happened to Subsidized Education?
Whatever Happened to Subsidized Education?This fall has brought news that economic expansion may finally be trickling down to those at the bottom of our nation’s economy. The poverty rate, at 11.8 percent, is at a 21-year low. Incomes were up by more than 2 percent in 1999. The number of Americans without health insurance has […]
October 25, 2000
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Extra Credit, Extra Criticism
Extra Credit, Extra CriticismAdvanced Placement courses are increasingly being viewed as indicative of minority equity — and the indicators don’t look good. By Pamela BurdmanOAKLAND, Calif.Massanda D’Johns has always planned to go to college, and now the Castlemont High School senior isn’t taking any chances. Castlemont, in Oakland, Calif., offers six Advanced Placement courses, and […]
October 25, 2000
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Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina Lottery
Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina LotteryCOLUMBIA, S.C. New ads by opponents of South Carolina’s proposed lottery say the result would be middle-class students attending college on the backs of poor people  more likely to gamble. One opponent says the argument risks injecting race into the debate. Voters will be asked to decide Nov. […]
October 25, 2000
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University of Idaho, Auburn U. Also Report Incidents of Doctored Photos
University of Idaho, Auburn U.  Also Report Incidents of Doctored PhotosMOSCOW, Idaho The University of Idaho has pulled a picture of nine students from the top of its Internet site after discovering that it had been altered to replace the heads of two White students with those of two minority students. University President Dr. Robert […]
October 25, 2000
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Federal Student Loan Default Rate Hit New Low in ’98
Federal Student Loan Default Rate Hit New Low in ’98T  he nation’s student loan default rate fell to another new low in 1998, as only 6.9 percent of former students were behind on federal loan repayments. The 1998 figure reported by the U.S. Department of Education is a steep drop from the record 22.4 percent […]
October 25, 2000
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:What are some strategies for dealing with inter-ethnic rivalries on campus, and how can I promote more working together among various ethnic groups?A conflict does exist between different groups of color at many predominantly White colleges and universities in America. As in society at large, this conflict grows out of the competition […]
October 11, 2000
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Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on Education
Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on EducationDemocrats Propose:n That teachers who agree to teach in a school that needs their help would get financial assistance for college tuition or student loans, or a hiring bonus for those willing to switch careers. The Democrats also advocate alternative certification so that those who choose to […]
October 11, 2000
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The Gore/Bush Records on Higher Education
The Gore/Bush  Records on Higher  EducationWhen Texas Gov. George W. Bush made a campaign stop at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., in early February, the Republican provoked one of the first crises of the campaign season. The content of this crisis was not higher education policy, but the role of Christian conservative voters in […]
October 11, 2000
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Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race Problems
Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race ProblemsPULLMAN, Wash. Police are still trying to determine why Washington State University freshman Atuanya Priester was beaten up last month. Some witnesses told investigators that Priester, from Seattle, was jumped by 10 men; others depict a confrontation between Priester and a member of a rival fraternity.Minority […]
October 11, 2000
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University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black Student
University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black StudentPITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is naming a nursing scholarship for its first Black nursing student. Adena Johnson Davis started at the University of Pittsburgh in 1943, a year after she had been rejected because of her race. “The stereotype was we didn’t fit in,” says […]
October 11, 2000
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Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training
Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training ATHENS, Ga.A University of Georgia sorority accused of evaluating a potential pledge on the basis of race will undergo sensitivity training, according to an agreement with the university. A resolution released last month says Alpha Gamma Delta and the university agreed that some sorority members “may hold […]
October 11, 2000
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