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Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case
Expert Panels Lay Out Legal Framework for Michigan Case WashingtonA panel of legal scholars and social science experts that have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of maintaining the University of Michigan’s affirmative action programs laid out the legal framework for allowing the continuation of race-conscious programs to reporters at a press briefing in […]
April 9, 2003
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Missouri Journalism School to Admit Freshmen for the First Time
Missouri Journalism School to Admit Freshmen for the First Time COLUMBIA, Mo.For the first time in its 93-year history, the Missouri School of Journalism will admit some students directly from high school this spring. In the fall, the journalism school also will begin admitting pre-journalism students already enrolled in the University of Missouri-Columbia’s honors college […]
April 9, 2003
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Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World
Flickers of Light Amid Collegiate Sport’s Academically Dim World Our Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars edition gives us an opportunity this time every year to reflect on the status of the student-athlete. A look at abysmal graduation rates of college athletes coupled with those standout scholars who are able to manage their studies and sports […]
April 9, 2003
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Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew
Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew By Julianne Malveaux The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report last month, “College Affordability in Jeopardy,” that showed public colleges “continue to become less affordable for students and families.” According to the independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit center, 16 states increased tuition and […]
March 26, 2003
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Living Out a Dream — Abroad
Living Out a Dream — Abroad Law professor Catherine Powell takes interest in human rights to Israel By Kendra Hamilton The faint of heart might think Catherine Powell, professor of law at New York’s Fordham University and former executive director of Columbia University’s Human Rights Institute, has chosen an odd location to bear her first […]
March 26, 2003
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Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad Student
Innovative Robotics Research Keeps Spotlight On MIT Grad StudentJames McLurkin recipient of annual Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventivenessBy Ronald Roach It’s not common that graduate school research brings national attention and prestigious awards to doctoral candidates. For James McLurkin, however, his work in robotics has won widespread recognition, most recently a prestigious student inventor’s prize […]
March 26, 2003
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Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology Program
Microsoft Aids Black Public College Technology ProgramBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTON, D.C.Microsoft has announced a $15 million software grant to the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) technology initiative, which is a multi-year effort to raise more than $100 million to upgrade technology at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The software grant will be distributed […]
March 26, 2003
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Paris Noir
Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]
March 26, 2003
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Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students
Pitt Engineering School Implements New Program to Recruit, Retain Underrepresented Students PITTSBURGHThe University of Pittsburgh’s School of Engineering (SOE) is implementing a program that will help minority and disadvantaged students attain a stronger educational background and provide them with positive role models. Building on Pitt’s 30-year history of diversity efforts, Dr. Sylvanus Nwosu, SOE’s assistant […]
March 26, 2003
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Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum
Three Schools to Test Alternative Medicine Curriculum RESTON, Va.The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) recently selected three medical schools to test a new curriculum designed to integrate complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches into mainstream medical school curricula. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and the University of […]
March 26, 2003
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Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship Program
Florida Schools to Partner in Film Scholarship ProgramORLANDO, Fla.Gov. Jeb Bush and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) have joined forces to create a film scholarship program for Florida’s Black college students. As part of the program, Bethune-Cookman College will partner with the University of Central Florida (UCF) for a new five-year film degree program, […]
March 26, 2003
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UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime
UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]
March 26, 2003
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Kenyan Named Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar
Kenyan Named Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar LEXINGTON, Va.Star student and athlete Michael Lokale says his life has been filled with many blessings. And now, as the Virginia Military Institute’s 10th Rhodes Scholar, the first classman is looking forward to yet another. As one of only two Kenyans selected from a pool of more […]
March 26, 2003
Students
Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew
Higher Education Budget Cuts And the Ground Crew By Julianne Malveaux The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education released a report last month, “College Affordability in Jeopardy,” that showed public colleges “continue to become less affordable for students and families.” According to the independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit center, 16 states increased tuition and […]
March 12, 2003
Students
Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities
Missouri-Columbia to Keep Summer Program for Minorities COLUMBIA, Mo.The University of Missouri at Columbia is sticking by its Transitions program for incoming minority students, even as other schools change or eliminate their programs in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case.“The Transitions program is specially designed to increase […]
March 12, 2003
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Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program
Entertainer Steve Harvey Establishes Textbook Award Program BATON ROUGE, La.Entertainer Steve Harvey and his wife, Mary, have contributed $40,000 to establish a book award program at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, La. The Harveys also have pledged to donate at least $20,000 annually to support their book award program at the university. […]
March 12, 2003
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Report: College Affordability in Jeopardy
Report: College Affordability in Jeopardy SAN JOSE, Calif.Public higher education tuition has soared in the past year as state spending for colleges and universities has dropped sharply, according to a new report on college affordability released last month.“The states are responding to the budget crisis by passing major cuts on to colleges and universities — […]
March 12, 2003
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Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek Change
Minority-Serving Institutions Join Forces to Seek ChangeBy Charles Dervarics In an effort to promote mutual goals, leaders of Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges are endorsing an ambitious agenda that includes a doubling of the maximum Pell grant and new incentives to promote student enrollment in math, science, teaching and other high-demand specialties. With […]
March 12, 2003
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