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Historically Black Schools Competing to Manage NASA Institute
Historically Black Schools Competing to Manage NASA InstituteA project to build a multi million dollar aerospace research center in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia could yield a major leadership and scientific role for two of Virginia’s historically Black universities. Historically Black Hampton and Norfolk State Universities, in association with Old Dominion University (ODU) in […]
July 3, 2002
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House Approves Bill with HSL, HBCU Aid
House Approves Bill with HSL, HBCU AidMinority-serving colleges and universities would get new funds for undergraduate math and science programs under newly approved legislation in the House of Representatives.The Investing in America’s Future Act has $30 million for a new initiative, the Minority Serving Institutions Undergraduate Program. This new initiative would include an existing science […]
July 3, 2002
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Filling the Budget GAP
Filling the Budget GAPUniversity administrators face tough choices as states cut deep into higher education budgetsBy Page Boinest Melton Norfolk State University President Marie McDemmond hoped this year to tackle the university’s student space shortage. Troubled that financial aid students spill out the doors of the administration building, and that admissions officers interview prospective students […]
June 19, 2002
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Research & Reality
Research & RealityMorgan State takes two-prong approach to stemming educational leadership deficit.BALTIMOREJuanita Eagleson, a former associate dean at Southeastern University in Washington, was in the midst of a  “career doldrums” when she heard that Dr. Howard Simmons, the former executive director of the Commission on Higher Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, was […]
June 19, 2002
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Connecticut State Universities to Expand Online Offerings
Connecticut State Universities to Expand Online OfferingsHARTFORD, Conn.The Connecticut State University system has announced it has signed contracts with Campus Pipeline Inc., CollegisEduprise, SCT and WebCT to expand its distance-learning arm, OnlineCSU, and enhance online services for the overall system. The CSU System includes Central Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State […]
June 19, 2002
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The Anatomy of Textbook Publishing
The Anatomy of Textbook PublishingComplex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooksEverything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there’s one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook.Let’s […]
June 19, 2002
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Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’
Vision for a ‘New Fisk’ Has Students, Alumni Asking ‘At What Expense?’Survey shows president, students far apart on plans for reviving the HBCUBy David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.Fisk University’s newly elected president, Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace, has created quite a stir in Nashville and within the tightly woven Fisk community. It all started in March when she hinted […]
June 19, 2002
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Events
EVENTSJULYJuly 7-1216th Annual Academic Advising Summer InstituteWyndham HotelColorado Springs, Colo.Contact: National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)Phone: (785) 532-5717Fax: (785) 532-7732E-mail: nacada@ksu.eduWeb: www.nacada.ksu.eduJuly 18-21The Multicultural Affairs InstituteOffice of Minority AffairsMemphis, Tenn.Phone: (901) 678-2054E-mail: minority@cc.memphis.eduWeb: www.people.memphis.edu/~minorityJuly 23-27National Association of Black Accountants31st Annual National Convention“Promoting Black and Minority Business Professionals”Marriott Marquis-Times SquareNew YorkContact: NABAPhone: (301) 474-NABAFax: (301) 474-3114Web: www.nabainc.orgJuly […]
June 5, 2002
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The Weary Need Not Apply
The Weary Need Not ApplyManaging the transition from graduate student to professor I am thrilled to have received, and accepted, an offer as an assistant professor at a university in Texas, and my family is quite happy for me as well. My mother is particularly excited. This is just about as prestigious as it gets […]
June 5, 2002
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Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface Incident
Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface IncidentSYRACUSE, N.Y.Syracuse University has placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after one of its members went to a campus bar wearing blackface as part of a costume. The action followed a sit-in by about 65 students at the school’s administration building. They made 12 demands of Chancellor […]
June 5, 2002
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Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore
Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore Speculation now on how justices will voteBy Erik LordsCINCINNATIMany legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high […]
June 5, 2002
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Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant Shortfall
Congress Looking for Ways to Solve Pell Grant ShortfallCongress may find a way out of the Pell Grant shortfall yet, based on recent action in the House of Representatives. A declining economy has sent more young adults back to school and created a $1.3 billion shortfall in the nation’s primary student aid grant program. After […]
June 5, 2002
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Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research Funding
Correcting the Inequities in Federal Research FundingIt is important and necessary for graduate students across different disciplines to be engaged in higher education policy debates. However, the reality is that too often, many graduate students are focused solely on their course work and/or research without realizing the significant impact of higher education policies on their […]
May 22, 2002
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Student Groups Criticize Election Reform Legislation
Student Groups Criticize Election Reform LegislationCollege students would be disproportionately affected by bill’s provisions     A legislative plan to curb voting irregularities may have unintended consequences for college students wishing to cast ballots, student groups and other critics say.A Senate-approved bill would require first-time voters to present photo identification cards showing their names and addresses. Among […]
May 22, 2002
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University of Maryland-Based Trio Program
University of Maryland-Based Trio Program Tackles Digital DivideCollege Park, Md. Traditionally, programs falling under the TRIO umbrella of federally funded college prep initiatives for disadvantaged students have not been known to focus on the digital divide. Nevertheless, an initiative based at the University of Maryland at College Park titled ProjectLINKS may signal a new day for […]
May 8, 2002
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SPECIAL REPORT: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
SPECIAL REPORT: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONPerhaps surprisingly, eight months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, college students nationally seem more interested than ever in overseas study. At colleges large and small, public and private, educators eagerly welcome the heightened interest. Many had feared collapse of study abroad programs as images of hijacked airplanes crashing into the World […]
May 8, 2002
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MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund
MIT Professor Celebrates 60th Birthday With Scholarship Fund CAMBRIDGE, Mass.MIT professor Dr. Wesley L. Harris is a private person who prefers to celebrate birthdays quietly with his family, little fanfare, no fuss.When his 60th loomed last fall, his wife, Sandra, wanted to surprise him by doing something special. Her dilemma: What do you do for […]
May 8, 2002
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Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black Males
Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black MalesDespite the great strides Black males have made over the last several decades in education, too often we are reminded of their struggle by statistical publications, media depictions and entertainment caricatures that hypothesize their gradual extinction from mainstream society. This extinction from society is shown to […]
April 24, 2002
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