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Black Frat Announces Digital Divide Initiative

Black Frat Announces Digital Divide InitiativeBALTIMOREThe Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. announced last month a nationwide project called the “Digital Heritage Initiative” in collaboration with the Microsoft Corp. and Africana.com to provide computer software and educational materials to public elementary, junior high and high schools throughout the country. Each of the fraternity’s chapters nationwide will […]

November 22, 2000

Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats Goal

Thurgood Marshall Fund Raises $5.7 Million, Beats GoalBy Cheryl D. FieldsNEW YORKWhen the goal is to prepare a new generation of leaders, money is often what distinguishes those with good intentions from those who are taking care of business. The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund let the world know last month that it is in the […]

November 22, 2000

Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination Efforts

Experts Leary of Texas’ Latest Education Disparity Elimination EffortsBy Lydia LumAUSTIN, TexasEducators here are asking state lawmakers to help finance new endowments of faculty positions and student scholarships. The request is part of an effort to settle the dispute between the federal Office of Civil Rights and the state of Texas regarding inequalities among the […]

November 22, 2000

Group Wants UC to Stop Racial Profiling

Group Wants UC to Stop Racial ProfilingBOULDER, Colo. A newly formed student group wants the University of Colorado to stop collecting information on the racial makeup of the school. The group, the Equal Opportunity Alliance, says the university is practicing racial profiling by gathering such data at the university. It wants officials to delete the […]

November 22, 2000

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Christopher T. Curry has been appointed director of residence life at Delaware State University. He was formerly assistant dean of students and director of residence life at Delaware Valley College. Curry earned his bachelor’s from Lincoln University, his master’s from Cheyney University and his doctorate from LaSalle University.Dr. Paul Keys has been named […]

November 8, 2000

Majority of HBCUs ‘Keeping Pace’ with Technology

Majority of HBCUs ‘Keeping Pace’ with Technologymany still face major digital divide issues, NAFEO Report saysWASHINGTON The majority of Black colleges and universities are more wired than originally assumed, according to a recent study released by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Despite the fact that the majority of HBCUs have networks […]

November 8, 2000

Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student Laptops

Massachusetts Officials to Vote on $123 Million Proposal to Require Student LaptopsBOSTON M assachusetts state colleges soon may join a handful of public campuses requiring that students buy and use their own laptops. The initial three-year plan, which would require state funding, includes $54 million that would go toward discounts and toward full and partial […]

November 8, 2000

Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange Programs

Tuskegee,Colorado to Participate in Exchange ProgramsTUSKEGEE, Ala.Students and faculty at Tuskegee University here and the University of Colorado at Boulder will begin participating in a joint exchange program.Initially, the program will feature the exchange of six to 10 undergraduate students in both directions. Those exchanges will last for one semester. Faculty exchanges are scheduled to […]

November 8, 2000

Georgia Wants More White Students To Enroll at State’s HBCUs

Georgia Wants More White Students To Enroll at State’s HBCUsATLANTA Looking to increase diversity at all its schools, the University System of Georgia wants more White students to enroll at the state’s three historically Black public colleges.“There is educational value in studying with people that are different than yourself,” says Dr. Stephen Portch, the system’s […]

November 8, 2000

Racist Incidents in Ga. Lead to Sanctions, Unity Jog

Racist Incidents in Ga. Lead to Sanctions, Unity JogATLANTA Oglethorpe University has handed down sanctions against four fraternities after students participating in a cross-country meet complained of being racially harassed and assaulted. Oglethorpe’s president, Dr. Larry Large, says officials at Clark Atlanta University and Morris Brown College — two predominantly Black colleges who participated in […]

November 8, 2000

HBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan Defaults

HBCUs Making Major Progress In Curbing Loan DefaultsAn in-depth review of new federal data shows that historically Black colleges and universities are making major inroads in reducing defaults, particularly at institutions that had high rates for much of the 1990s.For 1998, only four of the nation’s HBCUs had student loan default rates that could place […]

November 8, 2000

Reversing the Plight of African American Male College Students

Reversing the Plight of African American Male College Students Scholars, both African American and Caucasian, have addressed the plight of the African American college student attending a predominantly White college or university. Of special concern is the African American male. Although African American men and women bear similar sociological and psychological scars of racism and […]

October 25, 2000

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsLee Hampton is the new executive director of corporate and foundation development at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Previously Hampton was the vice chancellor for university advancement at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Hampton earned a bachelor’s in English from Dillard University and a master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. […]

October 25, 2000

Whatever Happened to Subsidized Education?

Whatever Happened to Subsidized Education?This fall has brought news that economic expansion may finally be trickling down to those at the bottom of our nation’s economy. The poverty rate, at 11.8 percent, is at a 21-year low. Incomes were up by more than 2 percent in 1999. The number of Americans without health insurance has […]

October 25, 2000

Extra Credit, Extra Criticism

Extra Credit, Extra CriticismAdvanced Placement courses are increasingly being viewed as indicative of minority equity — and the indicators don’t look good. By Pamela BurdmanOAKLAND, Calif.Massanda D’Johns has always planned to go to college, and now the Castlemont High School senior isn’t taking any chances. Castlemont, in Oakland, Calif., offers six Advanced Placement courses, and […]

October 25, 2000

Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina Lottery

Race Enters Debate Over Proposed South Carolina LotteryCOLUMBIA, S.C. New ads by opponents of South Carolina’s proposed lottery say the result would be middle-class students attending college on the backs of poor people more likely to gamble. One opponent says the argument risks injecting race into the debate. Voters will be asked to decide Nov. […]

October 25, 2000

University of Idaho, Auburn U. Also Report Incidents of Doctored Photos

University of Idaho, Auburn U. Also Report Incidents of Doctored PhotosMOSCOW, Idaho The University of Idaho has pulled a picture of nine students from the top of its Internet site after discovering that it had been altered to replace the heads of two White students with those of two minority students. University President Dr. Robert […]

October 25, 2000

Federal Student Loan Default Rate Hit New Low in ’98

Federal Student Loan Default Rate Hit New Low in ’98T he nation’s student loan default rate fell to another new low in 1998, as only 6.9 percent of former students were behind on federal loan repayments. The 1998 figure reported by the U.S. Department of Education is a steep drop from the record 22.4 percent […]

October 25, 2000