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Report: Rising College Costs Outstripping Student Aid

Report: Rising College Costs Outstripping Student AidBy M.H. MillerTo pay for community college these days, the average student still has to cobble together funds — through Pell Grants and other government, institutional and possibly family support, while often holding down one or more jobs, according to new reports by the College Board on college costs […]

November 17, 2004

Playing Catch Up

Playing Catch UpWhenever I read about national shortages of qualified professionals in critical fields, such as health care and technology, I can’t help but think about the tragic legacy of segregation and discrimination in the United States. I believe that had African Americans enjoyed the full range of educational and career opportunities experienced by Whites […]

November 17, 2004

Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal?

Do Graduate Assistants Get A Fair Deal? There is nothing like a campus environment to reinforce the concept of teamwork. Few on a campus can do their jobs alone. From the loftiest endowed chair holder, hefty salary in pocket, to the newest assistant professor, everyone makes a contribution, of sorts, and relies on others to […]

November 3, 2004

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

Documenting the Diaspora

Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]

November 3, 2004

NCCU Seeking to Triple Community College Transfers

NCCU Seeking to Triple Community College TransfersDURHAM, N.C. North Carolina Central University is freeing up scholarship money and tweaking its course requirements as it tries to triple the number of community college transfer students within five years.“It’s a fertile pool of qualified students for the baccalaureate,” Chancellor James H. Ammons said. More than 72,000 North […]

November 3, 2004

Report: Half of All Undergraduates Fail To Apply for Financial Aid

Report: Half of All Undergraduates Fail To Apply for Financial AidWASHINGTONA new study says hundreds of thousands of college students who may be eligible for federal financial aid don’t get it for a simple reason — they don’t apply.The study, “Missed Opportunities: Students Who Do Not Apply for Financial Aid,” released by the American Council […]

November 3, 2004

After First Rejecting Request, Catholic University Approves NAACP Chapter

After First Rejecting Request, Catholic University Approves NAACP Chapter WASHINGTONThe Catholic University of America’s Office of University Center, Student Programs and Events has approved a request to form a student chapter of the NAACP, after the students gave the university’s president assurances recently that they would not engage in any advocacy for abortion or other […]

November 3, 2004

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid Process

Congress Weighs Simplifying Student-Aid ProcessBy M.H. MillerNora Diaz almost didn’t make it to college because her student-aid application form was too long and complicated. Diaz told a congressional panel that she couldn’t have filled out the form without help from counselors. And without student aid, college wouldn’t have been an option for Diaz, whose father […]

November 3, 2004

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?A couple of weeks ago, one of my favorite former students — now an administrator at Fisk University — called to inquire how quickly I could get Fisk on my speaking schedule. He informed me that my fraternity brothers on the campus had become the latest victimizers […]

October 20, 2004

Celebrating the History And Contributions of Black Colleges

Celebrating the History And Contributions of Black CollegesBy Ronald Roach I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesBy Juan Williams and Dwayne AshleyAmistad (Harper Collins), 2004pp. 480, $35.00, HardcoverISBN: 0-06-009453-2 In I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, authors Juan […]

October 20, 2004

Keeping Students Afloat

Keeping Students AfloatNoel-Levitz awards recognize retention programs that generate resultsBy Crystal L. KeelsSink or swim. That has been the prevailing climate of higher education in the past — students will either find their way through, or find their way out of institutions of higher learning. But since roughly the late 1980s and through the 1990s, […]

October 20, 2004

From Mississippi to Miami

From Mississippi to MiamiFlorida International University recruits legendary civil rights activist Bob Moses and his nationally recognized math literacy projectBy Ronald RoachFew historic episodes in American history have imparted a more potent plea for social justice and inclusion than the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In the past two decades, legendary activist […]

October 20, 2004

Couple Honored for Housing Black Iowa State Students in the Mid-1900s

Couple Honored for Housing Black Iowa State Students in the Mid-1900sAMES, IowaIf Archie and Nancy Martin were alive to see the expansive new residence hall named in their honor, there’s little doubt they would be awestruck.Last month, the board of regents, State of Iowa, approved the renaming of one of the university’s dormitories to “Archie […]

October 20, 2004

On the Road with Barack Obama

On the Road with Barack Obama BI: Do you advocate any significant changes in federal higher education policy, specifically in regard to student financial aid and pre-college programs for disadvantaged students and underrepresented minorities? BO: I think it’s really important that we revamp our college loan programs to free up more money for students. The […]

October 6, 2004

Presidential Proposals

Presidential ProposalsCandidates Envision Ways to Promote Postsecondary EducationBy Crystal L. KeelsQuestions of military service and non-service, missing weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, the threat of further terrorist attacks and the unprecedented suggestion that U.S. elections may be postponed are topics that have characterized the 2004 presidential election campaign thus far. […]

October 6, 2004

OBAMA RISING

OBAMA RISING All but assured to become the fifth Black American to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate, Obama represents to many the emergence of a new generation of national political leadershipBy Ronald Roach SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Less than two months after a stellar keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Barack Obama […]

October 6, 2004

Winston-Salem State Students Question Blair’s Appearance

Winston-Salem State Students Question Blair’s AppearanceWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Some Winston-Salem State University students are questioning the school’s decision to bring disgraced journalist Jayson Blair to campus to speak. Ebonee Russell, a senior and a reporter for The News Argus, the historically Black university’s newspaper, said she was bothered that WSSU is one of the few schools […]

October 6, 2004

Saving for College May Result in Future Losses, Report Says

Saving for College May Result in Future Losses, Report Says By Kathleen Kennedy ManzoPinching pennies early for college and investing in state-sponsored savings plans may actually result in a net loss for students, considering the financial aid reductions that may result, particularly for low-income students who plan to attend community colleges, a new report concludes.Money […]

October 6, 2004