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Not Your Father’s Community College
Not Your Father’s Community CollegeNew programs, increased visibility boost two-year institutions’ appealBy Lydia LumPublic perception of community colleges has improved so much in the past two decades that they are no longer regarded as higher education’s last resort. Many two-year schools have increased the number and visibility of honors programs. They have signed deals with […]
June 16, 2004
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NEA Study Finds Stagnant Resources Jeopardize Public Schools
NEA Study Finds Stagnant Resources Jeopardize Public SchoolsInvestments in public schools are not keeping pace with the needs of our children, according to an education funding report released last month by the National Education Association (NEA).Last fall, nearly 400,000 additional children entered the nation’s classrooms, representing the 19th consecutive rise in school enrollment. Yet, annual […]
June 16, 2004
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Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access Bill
Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access BillBy Patricia Troumpoucis The debate over the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is deepening between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives as they focus on student aid — specifically student loans and Pell Grants. Democrats say the changes Republicans recently proposed in a new […]
June 16, 2004
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Shut Out Of the System
Shut Out Of the System As competition increases for slots at UC-Berkeley, admission offers to minority students continue to declineBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.As University of California officials announced admissions results for the fall, it appeared that increasing competition for seats at the university, rising tuition costs, and continued controversy over the role of race in […]
June 2, 2004
Students
New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based Aid
New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based AidWASHINGTONA new study is lauding the positive impact that a college education can have on what it calls “our shared economic, social and cultural well-being as a nation,” and calls for increased funding for Pell Grants.“While policy-makers and education leaders cite the fact that a bachelor’s degree has become […]
June 2, 2004
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Leaving No Child Behind In Science Education
Leaving No Child Behind  In Science EducationWith the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 several changes have been implemented that require states, colleges of education, school districts and others to rethink ways to improve teacher certification. One aspect of this legislation is that each public school must have a “highly qualified” […]
June 2, 2004
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Student Group Uses Internet To Foster Democracy
Student Group Uses Internet To Foster Democracy SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.This spring, hundreds of college students around the world are promoting  — via the Internet — global dialogue to nurture democracy. The project is being undertaken by the Student World Assembly (SWA), a global network of several hundred “wired” university students based at the California […]
May 5, 2004
Students
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]
May 5, 2004
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Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public Colleges
Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesBy Garry BoulardA long-simmering, trans-regional dispute is pitting mostly Southern and Western Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives against their Republican and Democratic counterparts from the East over the way campus-based federal aid is distributed.Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on […]
May 5, 2004
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Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop Generation
Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop GenerationScholarship on the genre moves beyond a project of legitimization into a more self-critical, challenging realmA hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference?The congressmen’s […]
April 21, 2004
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Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural Impact
Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural ImpactScholars are poised to take a close look at the influence of hip-hop on the social identity, values of today’s youth.By Ronald RoachAs a cultural movement, hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people, especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand, there are […]
April 21, 2004
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Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College
Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]
April 21, 2004
Students
Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing Participation
Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing ParticipationFor the fourth time in as many months, the Bush administration is easing the restrictions of its education law, this time in the area of testing. The latest move is to reduce the number of students a school may test without running afoul of the law.The No Child […]
April 21, 2004
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Creating a Successful Student-Athlete
Creating a Successful Student-AthleteDiscipline, focus and hard work are just a few attributes, says advising expert Dr. Ruth Darling By Kendra HamiltonCritics of big-time college sports have been working for decades to control the rampant rise in commercialization on campus — and to hold the line on academic integrity. But the balancing act is a […]
April 7, 2004
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Training for the Ph.D.
Training for the Ph.D.National conference brings together first-generation college students on the road to a doctoral degreeBy Cassie ChewCOLLEGE PARK, Md.From as early as the third grade, Kimberly Sellers knew she wanted to earn a doctoral degree. So year after year, when her father brought home the issue of Black Issues In Higher Education listing […]
April 7, 2004
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Academics, Athletics and Life Skills
Academics, Athletics and Life SkillsAvid Black Issues’ readers know that in early April we honor outstanding students of color who have excelled both in the classroom and on the court, track or field with our annual Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards. The Arthur Ashe edition is a favorite of many scholar-athletes, parents, coaches and […]
April 7, 2004
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The War Over Internet Piracy
The War Over Internet PiracyFearing lawsuits, college officials crack down on student abuse of university-owned IT systems.BY PETER GALUSZKASitting in a booth at Jones Dining Hall at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Quintus Ferguson and Dawn Diggs munch on lunchtime French fries and ponder the economics, convenience and ethics of pirating music on the Internet.“A […]
March 10, 2004
Students
Microsoft Group Holds Technology Day for Minority Students
Microsoft Group Holds Technology Day for Minority Students REDMOND, Wash.Blacks at Microsoft (BAM), an African American employee organization at the Microsoft Corporation, held its annual Blacks at Microsoft Minority Student Day (BMSD) last month to encourage broader access to technology and education. Jeff Raikes, Microsoft group vice president of productivity and business services and executive […]
March 10, 2004
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