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NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows

NAFEO Names First Class of Leadership Fellows SILVER SPRING, Md.The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) has selected 13 outstanding faculty, from historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities, for its first class of Kellogg Leadership Fellows in the NAFEO National Leadership Institute. The institute is designed to train and develop the […]

August 27, 2003

Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated Environment

Charter Schools Produce Higher Test Scores, But Segregated EnvironmentRecent studies assess race, academic achievement in the nation’s charter schools By Ben Hammer WASHINGTON Charter school students perform slightly better on standardized tests than their public school counterparts, but go to schools that tend to be racially segregated, two recent studies have found. A study by […]

August 27, 2003

Congress Must Address College ‘Cost Crisis,’ GOP Says Fewer students able to take advantage of federal resources, leaders say

Congress Must Address College ‘Cost Crisis,’ GOP Says Fewer students able to take advantage of federal resources, leaders sayBy Charles Dervarics Setting the stage for a potentially contentious battle on higher education’s future, Republican education leaders in Congress say the nation’s higher education system faces a major “cost crisis” in which escalating tuitions have left […]

August 27, 2003

Ending Affirmative Action: 25 Years to Go

Ending Affirmative Action: 25 Years to GoBy Dr. Charles V. Willie Justice Sandra Day O’Connor repeatedly mentioned “the educational benefits of a diverse student body” in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that approved the way the University of Michigan’s law school selects applicants for matriculation to diversify its student body. Specifically she said, “The […]

August 13, 2003

From Opening Doors to Opening Minds

From Opening Doors to Opening MindsBy Dr. George L. Daniels It was 40 years ago this past June that the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door of the University of Alabama’s Foster Auditorium trying to prevent the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. His defiant stance against integration won him […]

August 13, 2003

Web Site Offers Stafford Student Loan Service

Web Site Offers Stafford Student Loan ServiceSAN DIEGO With the new school year around the corner, nearly six million undergraduate students are scrambling for nearly $90 billion in financial aid assistance to meet the ballooning costs of attending college. Given shrinking scholarship and financial aid budgets, the bulk of this aid — 54 percent — […]

August 13, 2003

A Rich, Disappearing Legacy Remembering Black boarding schools: A tradition obscured by desegregation’s impact.

A Rich, Disappearing Legacy Remembering Black boarding schools: A tradition obscured by desegregation’s impact. By Ronald Roach There’s no doubt that the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board school desegregation case next year will generate much-needed discussion about the ongoing struggle over providing quality education for American children, especially for […]

August 13, 2003

Survey Reinforces Value of Faculty Diversity in the Classroom

Survey Reinforces Value of Faculty Diversity in the ClassroomMONTVALE, N.J. A survey of undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities reveals that diversity in the front of the classroom enhances the educational experience for all. The survey disclosed that minority professors have significant influence on the education of both minority and non-minority students. When […]

August 13, 2003

Staking a Claim in the Converged Media World

Staking a Claim in the Converged Media World By Dr. Sybril Bennett The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to change the media ownership rules on June 2. In short, part of the ruling would allow newspaper owners in certain media markets to purchase television stations in the same city. For example, the Gannett Corp., which […]

July 30, 2003

Aiming for the Top

Aiming for the TopFoundation backing puts school’s journalism and communications program on new footingBy Ronald RoachHAMPTON, Va. When Erin Hill read a magazine article her senior year in high school about Hampton University’s plans for a new journalism and communications building, she saw the project validating her desire to attend the historically Black school in […]

July 30, 2003

A Prize Writer

Prize WriterWashington Post columnist Colbert I. King’s straight-talking ways earns him a Pulitzer and national fameBy Kendra HamiltonWASHINGTONColbert I. King has been to the mountaintop. It’s something editorial writers and op-ed columnists do — the way musicians go to the woodshed — to see the visions and bring back the news the world desperately needs […]

July 30, 2003

University of Iowa Wins $1.8 Million For Minority Doctorates

University of Iowa Wins $1.8 Million For Minority DoctoratesIOWA CITY, Iowa The University of Iowa won more than $1.8 million in grants to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and American Indian doctoral candidates in engineering, math and chemistry, school officials announced this month. The Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) grants come […]

July 30, 2003

Student Group Vows to Defeat Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot Proposal

Student Group Vows to Defeat Anti-Affirmative Action Ballot ProposalA student activist group is organizing a national boycott to defeat Ward Connerly’s proposed anti-affirmative action ballot initiative in Michigan. The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action & Integration and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is calling for a boycott of all corporations and institutions […]

July 30, 2003

When Journalists Become the News

When Journalists Become the NewsIt’s not often that journalists make the headlines, but this year has been an exception. From the reports of embedded reporters being killed while covering the war in Iraq to the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, journalists have become the news. Unless you have been living under a rock, […]

July 30, 2003

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education

Intellectual Entrepreneurship: Successfully Engaging Hearts, Minds in Graduate Education By Dr. Richard A. Cherwitz and Susan Alvarado Boyd Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action in admissions to graduate and professional programs, many institutions are contemplating how, if at all, to use race and ethnicity in making admissions decisions. The court’s ruling notwithstanding, […]

July 2, 2003

Grants & Awards

Columbia University’s Teachers College received a $10.8 million gift from Lilo and Gerard Leeds. The gift, to be made over six years, is the largest single gift in the college’s history. The gift will be used to bolster the academic achievement of low-income high school students in New York City and across the United States. […]

July 2, 2003

Saving Lives by Saving Time

Saving Lives by Saving TimeMaryland doctoral student works on filling demand for rapid, highly sensitive diagnostic tests By Lisa GregoryCOLLEGE PARK, Md.Tne University of Maryland graduate student’s research could save lives by saving time. Angela Hodge Miller, who is pursuing her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, is working to develop chemical sensors capable of performing selective […]

July 2, 2003

Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business Commitment to faculty, students and fund raising brings Florida State dean early legacy of successBy Pearl Stewart Tallahassee, Fla. One morning about three years ago, Dr. Melvin Stith brushed past a student who seemed to need assistance in his outer office. When the dean of the Florida State University College of […]

July 2, 2003