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Security expensive for state-run New Orleans schools
NEW ORLEANS Providing security for state-run schools in New Orleans has been expensive.
June 24, 2007
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Retired Army General takes control of D.C. public schools – Lt. Gen. Julius Becton’s appointment as CEO
As president of Prairie View A&M University, retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton earned respect as a starched-shirt leader who demanded accountability in academic and financial affairs and didn’t mind challenging the status quo to achieve his goals.
June 23, 2007
Students
Seeking the cure – nursing program at South Carolina State University – special report: health sciences
ORANGEBURG, S.C. Facing the threat of closure, the nursing program at South Carolina State University is searching for a cure to its problem of low passing rates among graduates who take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).
June 23, 2007
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Morehouse, community work to free Womack: Phi Beta Kappa Nominee Accused of Plotting to Overthrow Government
ATLANTA The chairman of the Morehouse College History Department is spearheading an effort to disentangle a former honor student of his from legal problems that have kept him behind bars since his arrest last December.
June 23, 2007
Students
Teaching our youth to fish – Dr. Marvalene Hughes, President, California State University-Stanislaus – Transcript
It was Benjamin Mays who best described what Tuskegee meant to me when he said, “A college must be judged not only be excellent teachers, but by the spirit and philosophy which permeate it from top to bottom.”
June 23, 2007
Students
Black economists: an ‘elite clan of warrior intellectuals.’
“Once upon a time there was a little girl who wanted to know why some people had jobs and others didn’t, so she took a course in economics. The textbook said that if you went to school and did the right things, you’d get a job. But she said, `that can’t be right. I have four cousins in Chicago who finished school, who finished training programs, and who still don’t have jobs.’ So she studied some more.”
June 23, 2007
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Students play a major role at historic Latino march on Washington
College and university students were a major force at the first-ever national civil and human rights rally to concentrate on Latino issues. The two-day event, which included a march and a student conference, was held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.   Leticia Villareal, a student at Vassar and the administrative chair of East Coast […]
June 23, 2007
Students
Building leaders: leadership development program important step for community college presidents
As a community college administrator with an eye on the presidency, Dr. Walter Bumphus wanted to ensure he would be competitive when the time came to climb the career ladder.
June 22, 2007
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Technology … it’s not just for science departments anymore – implementing technology at colleges
As a graduate student at Ohio State University in the early 1990s, Dr. Leslie Fenwick had grown accustomed to having access to computers and to using her own campus-issued computer. “They were part of the landscape. Computers were just part of the university setting,” Fenwick said.
June 22, 2007
Students
Building a cadre of Ph.D.s – scholarship program
To increase the number of African-American men with doctorates in the sciences, the 100 Black Men of America and the National Consortium for Educational Access (NCEA) have begun a new fellowship program.
June 22, 2007
Students
Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College
A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.
June 22, 2007
Students
If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews
Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.
June 22, 2007
Students
Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million
Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.
June 22, 2007
Students
Is the NCAA playing a numbers game? – National Collegiate Athletics Association – appraisal of graduation rates
While the National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent all summer putting a happy face on its annual Division I Graduation-Rates Report, others caution that, to avoid being misleading, the rates need to be put into perspective.   Claiming that Division I student athletes who receive athletic scholarships continue to graduate at a higher rate than […]
June 22, 2007
Students
University of Michigan replaces scrapped scholarships
ANN ARBOR Mich. The University of Michigan has replaced scholarships eliminated in the wake of a voter-approved ban on preferential treatment based on race and gender at public universities.
June 21, 2007
Students
Minnesota and Wisconsin settle tuition dispute
ST. PAUL The governors of Minnesota and Wisconsin said Friday that they settled a long-simmering tuition reciprocity dispute without making students pay more to attend universities in either state.
June 21, 2007
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Just the Stats: How Effective Are STEM Pipeline Programs?
Bridging the racial gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the so-called STEM fields, has become a priority for two organizations: the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation and the Model Institutions for Excellence.
June 20, 2007
Students
By becoming more student centered, colleges will excel
From my observations, those people who work in what is known as “student affairs” are basing their work on a few guiding realities. These realities or guiding principles underlie the fundamental mission of higher education and open a window into the complexity of student affairs’ work in the late 1990s. First and foremost, institutions are […]
June 20, 2007
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