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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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
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
Students
Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student Group
Wanted: New Members for Black Grad Student GroupBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAt the top of the agenda for the annual meeting of the National Black Graduate Student Association, held in Washington at Howard University late last month, was a call for members to get involved in recruitment.Roughly 250 students, a number of whom were undergraduates, turned […]
April 24, 2002
Students
Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Elaine J. Copeland has been named president of Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C. Previously, she was acting president of the college. Copeland earned a bachelor’s degree from Livingstone College, master’s degrees from Winthrop University and the University of Illinois, and a doctorate from Oregon State University.Dr. Paul Killpatrick has been named […]
April 10, 2002
Students
Just Another Angry Black Man?
Just Another Angry Black Man?An open letter from Penn State faculty, staff and graduate students on Nolan Richardson’s firing    The only surprising thing about University of Arkansas head basketball coach Nolan Richardson’s so-called “eruption” at a press conference in February was that it took so long. While some attention has been paid to the ridiculously […]
April 10, 2002
Students
A Real Team Player
A Real Team Player Wofford College’s Ben Foster makes doing for others a daily priority and a future goal.By Lydia LumPicture the average running back, sprinting down the field, rushing yards and scoring touchdowns. Then picture Wofford College’s Ben Foster, who is better known for his blocking than for rushing and scoring — a fact […]
April 10, 2002
Students
2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars
2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports ScholarsGiving it Their Best ShotExcelling in academics, athletics and service to the community is a challenge that very few student-athletes can master. The late tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. mastered all three, which is why Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholar Award in his honor. This annual […]
April 10, 2002
Students
Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?
Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?The academy seems to think so.The University of California-Berkeley has just released a set of statistics that should give pause to every female academic of child-bearing age.Women who have children early in their careers — that is, between one and five years after receiving a doctorate — are […]
March 27, 2002
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