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The new faces of Vassar – minority undergraduate transfer students – includes related article

With only a few thousand African American and Latino high school students scoring 1310 and above on SAT tests, selective colleges often find themselves — scholarship money in hand — colliding into one another as they attempt to lure these highly-sought-after students to their campuses.

July 11, 2007

University of California aims to raise transfer rates by 38 percent

San Francisco This state, which boasts the nation’s largest two-year college system and one of the best community college student transfer rates, thinks it can do even better.

July 11, 2007

“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

Black College Student Survival Guide. – book reviews

With retention rates for Black college students hovering well below the 50 percent mark at many campuses across the country, an audit — conducted with a fine-toothed comb — of the factors that lead to the success or failure of a student would be right on time. A “how-to manual,” of sorts — written specifically with Black college students in mind, and chock full of helpful hints and wise insights from those who have already chartered the path and overcome the obstacles — is just what some Black youths may need to make it through the undergraduate experience.

July 11, 2007

Back from the brink – averted crisis for Central State University, Ohio

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal.

July 11, 2007

Through these eyes – photographs of P.H. Polk – Illustration

From 1939 until his death in 1984, Prentice Herman Polk taught It photography at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and was the official Campus Photographer. In 1933, he became chair of the university’s photography department. Polk owned one of Macon County, Alabama’s few private photography Studios and became a renowned portrait photographer.

July 11, 2007

Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils. – book reviews

As a Black female psychologist who has worked in many settings — most recently in a university setting — and as a student who attended a predominantly White university in the Northeast, I can vividly recall the feelings of belonging and support that I experienced in meeting other members of the Black Graduate Student Association. Only within that fellowship at the predominantly White university which I attended did I feel whole.

July 11, 2007

The pied piper of college golf – National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Assn. founder and Pres. Bill Dickey

Bill Dicky More Than Just a Fairway Friend to College-Bound Youth

July 11, 2007

Chancellor of Southern University resigns amid scholarship flap – Marvin Yates

BATON ROUGE, La. The chancellor of Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus abruptly resigned in the wake of a scholarship scandal.

July 11, 2007

Scholarship scandal in Louisiana

Baton Rouge, La. Last fall when William “Bud” Davis, the chancellor of State University, suddenly resigned his position in the wake of charges that his office awarded nearly fifty minority scholarships to White students, many educators and politicians around the state sighed a collective relief that this most recent scholarship fiasco appeared to end as Davis departed.

July 11, 2007

Historically Black Bluefield State’s ironic situation: desperately seeking Black students and faculty – Bluefield State College, West Virginia

Bluefield, W. Va. When a historically Black university fails to sustain, say, a ten percent African American student population, People are bound to start talking. Well, they have.

July 11, 2007

Senate clears student aid, HBCU funding bill – historically Black colleges and universities

Six weeks into fiscal year 1998, Congress has finally completed action on legislation that will boost funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), TRIO, and many student-aid programs through next year.

July 11, 2007

Derrick Bell: keeper of the flame – author of ‘Confronting Authority’ and Afro-American law professor at New York University

Editor’s note: No discussion of a commitment to diversity in higher education would be complete without talking to Derrick Bell. Unfortunately, as Black Issues was preparing the following article, Professor Bell fell ill and was unavailable for an interview. Black Issues is happy to report that at press time he was reported as doing better.

July 11, 2007

Reality infused into Livingstone’s teacher education program: early successes seen with African American male instructors – Livingstone College in North Carolina

The chart below looks at student in institutions and departments offering teacher education. It is subdivided into five blocks, one comparing actual numbers, the other four comparing percentages. The chart reads as follows:

July 11, 2007

Through the eyes of a student – account of a student who attended a college fair

Editorial note: An institution’s purpose for attending a college fair is to attract high school students to their campuses. Black Issues thought it would be interesting to hear from a student who attended. The following is his report.

July 11, 2007

The money chase: videoconference participants get insider tips on ethnic philanthropy – Panel Discussion

Washington When it comes to ethnic philanthropy, a couple of things need to be clear. First, the color that really counts is not Black, White, Brown, or Red, but green – as in dollar green. Second, without know how and persistence, pleas for funding will likely not be heard regardless of the nobility or desperation of the plea.

July 11, 2007

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

Controversial plan may cut student loan costs – student loan provision

Low- and middle-income college students could get a break on their student loans next year — if Congress can defy the wishes of private lenders.

July 11, 2007