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The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing
The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]
June 19, 2002
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Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’
Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’Survey shows president, students far apart on plans for reviving the HBCUBy David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.Fisk University’s newly elected president, Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace, has created quite a stir in Nashville and within the tightly woven Fisk community. It all started in March when she hinted […]
June 19, 2002
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EVENTSJULYJuly 7-1216th Annual Academic Advising Summer InstituteWyndham HotelColorado Springs, Colo.Contact: National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)Phone: (785) 532-5717Fax: (785) 532-7732E-mail: nacada@ksu.eduWeb: www.nacada.ksu.eduJuly 18-21The Multicultural Affairs InstituteOffice of Minority AffairsMemphis, Tenn.Phone: (901) 678-2054E-mail: minority@cc.memphis.eduWeb: www.people.memphis.edu/~minorityJuly 23-27National Association of Black Accountants31st Annual National Convention“Promoting Black and Minority Business Professionals”Marriott Marquis-Times SquareNew YorkContact: NABAPhone: (301) 474-NABAFax: (301) 474-3114Web: www.nabainc.orgJuly […]
June 5, 2002
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The Weary Need Not Apply
The Weary Need Not ApplyManaging the transition from graduate student to professor I am thrilled to have received, and accepted, an offer as an assistant professor at a university in Texas, and my family is quite happy for me as well. My mother is particularly excited. This is just about as prestigious as it gets […]
June 5, 2002
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Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface Incident
Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface IncidentSYRACUSE, N.Y.Syracuse University has placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after one of its members went to a campus bar wearing blackface as part of a costume. The action followed a sit-in by about 65 students at the school’s administration building. They made 12 demands of Chancellor […]
June 5, 2002
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Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore
Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore Speculation now on how justices will voteBy Erik LordsCINCINNATIMany legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high […]
June 5, 2002
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Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant Shortfall
Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant ShortfallCongress may find a way out of the Pell Grant shortfall yet, based on recent action in the House of Representatives. A declining economy has sent more young adults back to school and created a $1.3 billion shortfall in the nation’s primary student aid grant program. After […]
June 5, 2002
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Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research Funding
Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research FundingIt is important and necessary for graduate students across different disciplines to be engaged in higher education policy debates. However, the reality is that too often, many graduate students are focused solely on their course work and/or research without realizing the significant impact of higher education policies on their […]
May 22, 2002
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Student Groups Criticize Election Reform Legislation
Student Groups Criticize Election Reform LegislationCollege students would be disproportionately affected by bill’s provisions     A legislative plan to curb voting irregularities may have unintended consequences for college students wishing to cast ballots, student groups and other critics say.A Senate-approved bill would require first-time voters to present photo identification cards showing their names and addresses. Among […]
May 22, 2002
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University of Maryland-Based Trio Program
University of Maryland-Based Trio Program Tackles Digital DivideCollege Park, Md. Traditionally, programs falling under the TRIO umbrella of federally funded college prep initiatives for disadvantaged students have not been known to focus on the digital divide. Nevertheless, an initiative based at the University of Maryland at College Park titled ProjectLINKS may signal a new day for […]
May 8, 2002
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SPECIAL REPORT: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
SPECIAL REPORT: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONPerhaps surprisingly, eight months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, college students nationally seem more interested than ever in overseas study. At colleges large and small, public and private, educators eagerly welcome the heightened interest. Many had feared collapse of study abroad programs as images of hijacked airplanes crashing into the World […]
May 8, 2002
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MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund
MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund CAMBRIDGE, Mass.MIT professor Dr. Wesley L. Harris is a private person who prefers to celebrate birthdays quietly with his family, little fanfare, no fuss.When his 60th loomed last fall, his wife, Sandra, wanted to surprise him by doing something special. Her dilemma: What do you do for […]
May 8, 2002
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Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black Males
Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black MalesDespite the great strides Black males have made over the last several decades in education, too often we are reminded of their struggle by statistical publications, media depictions and entertainment caricatures that hypothesize their gradual extinction from mainstream society. This extinction from society is shown to […]
April 24, 2002
Students
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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