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Wanted: more black graduate students
In the middle of my doctoral studies, I encountered an elderly relative who expressed some chagrin that I was “still in school.” She noted that she had sent me a few dollars when I earned my undergraduate degree and wondered whether her investment was wasted.
June 19, 2007
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Texas twister – Graduate Opportunities Program
In 1978, Sarita Brown told the dean of graduate studies at the University of Texas-Austin that the reason the university had so few minority graduate students was the fault of the university, not the lack of eligible candidates. A well-run program, she said, could bring in many more Black and Hispanic graduate students.
June 19, 2007
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… 3,000 and counting – educational aid to underrepresented students
Several years ago, a number of educators, after deciding there were not enough Latinos enrolled in graduate schools around the country, created a program called “Helping 500 U.S. Hispanic Students into Graduate Schools.”
June 19, 2007
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Digging deeper for tuition
As if the assault on affirmative action hasn’t produced enough ominous clouds over higher education, the outlook for graduate and professional schools is becoming stormier than ever.
June 19, 2007
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Cash-for-grades Scam Highlights Dilemma For College Admissions
BERKELEY, Calif. News that dozens of community college students in the San Francisco Bay Area may have been hitting their checkbooks rather than textbooks in a cash-for-grades scam highlighted an academic dilemma: What to do about cheaters?
June 19, 2007
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Settlement Ends Dispute Over N.J. College Newspaper Adviser’s Ouster
TRENTON, N.J. Trustees at a southern New Jersey community college have agreed to permanently reinstate a student newspaper faculty adviser whose removal had sparked protests from journalism groups and even criticism from a federal judge.
June 18, 2007
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Staying competitive – marketing campaigns of historically Black colleges and universities
Nashville, Tn — After a decade of watching enrollment swell at almost twice ,the rate of predominantly white institutions, some historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are beefing up marketing efforts to remain competitive.
June 18, 2007
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Fore! NCAA division I: golf taps its first historically Black college – National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I golf tournament raises doubts on commitment to nurturing black golfers
Jackson State University made history this spring by becoming the first historically Black institution to have its golf team invited to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I golf tournament. Division 110 the NCAA’s top competitive division.
June 18, 2007
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1996 Ad
Atlanta – When Atlanta was named host city for the 1996 Olympic Games, recent Morris Brown College graduate LaDon Love dreamed about being a part of the event. That dream will come true next month when the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) will pay LaDon $160 per day to keep track of cameras during the broadcasts of the Olympics.
June 18, 2007
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Reflections on the importance of role models – an African-American teacher defends use of Black role models
Thirty years ago I graduated from high school. I can still remember how excited I was getting ready to start college. I was salutatorian, of my high school graduating class. Tenths of a point separated me from the valedictorian and the student who was third. All three of us were interested in mathematics and science. We had not been told that as Blacks we weren’t supposed to do well in these areas.
June 17, 2007
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Who benefits from affirmative action? – Whites are key beneficiaries of special admission standards at Washington State
In the midst of all the current breast-beating about affirmative action, the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs has found that data — provided by four-year institutions and compiled by the Washington State Office of Financial Management show that whites are the key beneficiaries of “special/alternative admission standards” and affirmative action affecting hiring at Washington States’s four-year schools. The beneficiaries include significant numbers of white men as well as white women.
June 17, 2007
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One, two, three…red light – conservative backlash derails progress in equal opportunity
The game, “One, Two, Three … Red Light,” played by elementary school children is an excellent metaphor for the state of Black progress in higher education.
June 17, 2007
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance. – book reviews
Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Cheryl A. Wall, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is a welcome addition to the scholarship on women of this period. Excellently researched, this book focuses on the lives of three women writers — Jessie Redmon Faucet, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston. Together, they epitomized the voice, tone, style and vision of Black women writers in New York City during the 1920s and early ’30s — the period of the Harlem Renaissance.
June 17, 2007
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‘Savings’ on California initiative challenged – California Civil Rights Initiative – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers
Proponents of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) tout it as a measure that will bring about substantial savings to state-house coffers by abolishing so-called state-sponsored discrimination in the form of affirmative action programs.
June 17, 2007
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UCLA ‘greater’ because of affirmative action – University of California, Los Angeles
In the past year, no issue has so touched the University of California as affirmative action and the controversy it has generated.
June 17, 2007
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Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund
Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.
June 17, 2007
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Challenging racial ‘scholarship.’
Not too long ago, in the, not-so-distant past, hell had no fury like that directed at, American academics who dared to teach the lie that Blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites.
June 17, 2007
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The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni – book reviews
I like to bring Nikki Giovanni’s poetry into my poetry workshops, especially the “Beginning Poetry Workshop.” I have a number of good reasons. The first is what her biographer, Virginia Fowler, tells us is Giovanni’s “single most important achievement,” which is “(t)he development of a unique and distinctive voice.”
June 17, 2007
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