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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

‘What Does it Take to Get There?’

‘What Does it Take to Get There?’… ‘A graduate degree,’ many conclude, as a weak job market has students flocking to graduate schools despite limited financial aidBy Page Melton Obra Hackett has a common-sense exercise for undergraduates weighing the choice between graduate school and a job. “Write the year 2023 on a piece of paper,” […]

July 2, 2003

Getting Smart About Higher Education Involves Doing Your Homework

Getting Smart About Higher Education Involves Doing Your HomeworkSo you’ve gotten the good news: “Overproduction” of Ph.D.s is, by and large, a myth. Many fields are experiencing painful shortages of Ph.D.s. Bioinformatics is one, notes Peter Syverson, vice president of research for the Council of Graduate Schools. “We’re not producing any Ph.D.s in bioinformatics because, […]

July 2, 2003

Preparing Graduate Students to Teach

Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships

Oklahoma Awards First Tulsa Race Riot Scholarships TULSA, Okla. The first college scholarships meant to ensure the 1921 Tulsa race riot is not forgotten have been awarded to 20 students. Two seniors from nine public high schools and one charter school in Tulsa will each receive $1,000. The Tulsa Reconciliation Scholarships are funded by $20,000 […]

July 2, 2003

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism

Pfizer Gift Creates Scholarship in Minority Medical Journalism CHAPEL HILL, N.C. The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication has received a $100,000 gift to create a new graduate scholarship designed to improve media coverage of minority health issues. The gift, from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, will establish the Pfizer Minority […]

July 2, 2003

Lowest-Ever Loan Rates To Make College More Affordable

Lowest-Ever Loan Rates To Make College More Affordable WASHINGTON U.S. Education Secretary Roderick Paige promised financial relief to millions of students and borrowers struggling to pay college tuition bills when he announced last month that federal student loan interest rates will drop to the historic low of 3.42 percent effective July 1. “Record low loan […]

June 18, 2003