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Smith College, Wesleyan University to Launch Scholarly Journal Devoted to Women of Color
Smith College, Wesleyan University to Launch Scholarly Journal Devoted to Women of ColorNorthampton, Mass.Smith College of Northampton and Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., have joined forces to launch the first peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted entirely to issues affecting the lives of women of color.Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, was expected to be in libraries and with […]
December 6, 2000
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Purdue President Challenges Universities to Increase Fellowships for Minority Graduate Students
Purdue President Challenges Universities to Increase Fellowships for Minority Graduate StudentsSan Antonio, TexasDr. Martin C. Jischke, president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., last month challenged America’s universities to establish fellowships to increase the numbers of minority graduate students preparing to be the faculty of the future.Speaking at the annual meeting of the National […]
December 6, 2000
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Freedom Forum, Vanderbilt University to Construct New Journalism Diversity Institute
Freedom Forum, Vanderbilt University to Construct New Journalism Diversity InstituteNashville, Tenn.The Freedom Forum last month announced plans for construction of The Freedom Forum Institute for Newsroom Diversity at Vanderbilt University. The new $6 million facility will house the innovative training center for journalists of color. The institute’s mission will be to help increase the number […]
December 6, 2000
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University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ Concerns
University of Tennessee Administrators Address Minority Students’ ConcernsKNOXVILLE, Tenn. What started as a sophomore-level student art project meant to depict the strangulation of the environment — nine nooses hanging from a tree — has many Black students at the University of Tennessee seeing the incident as more than just art. Last month’s episode was the […]
December 6, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsWardell G. Baker has been promoted to associate vice president for student affairs at Virginia State University in Petersburg. Previously, he was director of residence life at the university. Baker earned both a bachelor’s in agronomy and a master’s in education from Virginia State University.Genevieve Brembry, executive director of the Texas Association of Developing […]
November 22, 2000
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Black Frat Announces Digital Divide Initiative
Black Frat Announces Digital Divide InitiativeBALTIMOREThe Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. announced last month a nationwide project called the “Digital Heritage Initiative” in collaboration with the Microsoft Corp. and Africana.com to provide computer software and educational materials to public elementary, junior high and high schools throughout the country. Each of the fraternity’s chapters nationwide will […]
November 22, 2000
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Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats Goal
Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats GoalBy Cheryl D. FieldsNEW YORKWhen the goal is to prepare a new generation of leaders, money is often what distinguishes those with good intentions from those who are taking care of business. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund let the world know last month that it is in the […]
November 22, 2000
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Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination Efforts
Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination EffortsBy Lydia LumAUSTIN, TexasEducators here are asking state lawmakers to help finance new endowments of faculty positions and student scholarships. The request is part of an effort to settle the dispute between the federal Office of Civil Rights and the state of Texas regarding inequalities among the […]
November 22, 2000
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Group Wants UC to Stop Racial Profiling
Group Wants UC to Stop Racial ProfilingBOULDER, Colo. A newly formed student group wants the University of Colorado to stop collecting information on the racial makeup of the school. The group, the Equal Opportunity Alliance, says the university is practicing racial profiling by gathering such data at the university. It wants officials to delete the […]
November 22, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Christopher T. Curry has been appointed director of residence life at Delaware State University. He was formerly assistant dean of students and director of residence life at Delaware Valley College. Curry earned his bachelor’s from Lincoln University, his master’s from Cheyney University and his doctorate from LaSalle University.Dr. Paul Keys has been named […]
November 8, 2000
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Majority of HBCUs ‘Keeping Pace’ with Technology
Majority of HBCUs ‘Keeping Pace’ with Technologymany still face major digital divide issues, NAFEO Report saysWASHINGTON The majority of Black colleges and universities are more wired than originally assumed, according to a recent study released by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Despite the fact that the majority of HBCUs have networks […]
November 8, 2000
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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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