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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dear BI Career Consultants:
Dear BI Career Consultants:What are some strategies for dealing with inter-ethnic rivalries on campus, and how can I promote more working together among various ethnic groups?A conflict does exist between different groups of color at many predominantly White colleges and universities in America. As in society at large, this conflict grows out of the competition […]
October 11, 2000
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Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on Education
Highlights from the Two Major Party Platforms on EducationDemocrats Propose:n That teachers who agree to teach in a school that needs their help would get financial assistance for college tuition or student loans, or a hiring bonus for those willing to switch careers. The Democrats also advocate alternative certification so that those who choose to […]
October 11, 2000
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The Gore/Bush Records on Higher Education
The Gore/Bush  Records on Higher  EducationWhen Texas Gov. George W. Bush made a campaign stop at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., in early February, the Republican provoked one of the first crises of the campaign season. The content of this crisis was not higher education policy, but the role of Christian conservative voters in […]
October 11, 2000
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Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race Problems
Student Attack at Washington State Raises Concerns About Race ProblemsPULLMAN, Wash. Police are still trying to determine why Washington State University freshman Atuanya Priester was beaten up last month. Some witnesses told investigators that Priester, from Seattle, was jumped by 10 men; others depict a confrontation between Priester and a member of a rival fraternity.Minority […]
October 11, 2000
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University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black Student
University of Pittsburgh Names Nursing Award for First Black StudentPITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is naming a nursing scholarship for its first Black nursing student. Adena Johnson Davis started at the University of Pittsburgh in 1943, a year after she had been rejected because of her race. “The stereotype was we didn’t fit in,” says […]
October 11, 2000
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Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training
Georgia Sorority Members Ordered to Undergo Race Sensitivity Training ATHENS, Ga.A University of Georgia sorority accused of evaluating a potential pledge on the basis of race will undergo sensitivity training, according to an agreement with the university. A resolution released last month says Alpha Gamma Delta and the university agreed that some sorority members “may hold […]
October 11, 2000
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Western Illinois Fraternity Suspended
Western Illinois Fraternity SuspendedMACOMB, Ill. A fraternity at Western Illinois University was suspended after school officials deemed inappropriate a rush advertisement that appeared in the campus newspaper, the university said recently. The ad pictured Delta Tau Delta brothers gathered in front of the fraternity house with a Black lawn jockey ornament that had handcuffs hanging […]
October 11, 2000
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Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic Achievement
Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic AchievementOne of the things I have learned traveling across America is just how diverse Hispanic America is, something that a lot of Americans really don’t know yet. I think there is a common core of values around family and community and work and faith, but Hispanic America is growing […]
September 27, 2000
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Hortense Hinton has been named dean of student development at Northern Virginia Community College’s Alexandria campus. Hinton earned a bachelor’s in psychology from the State University of New York, a master’s in counseling from the University of the District of Columbia and a doctorate in counselor education from the University of Virginia. Dr. […]
September 27, 2000
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Chicano Studies
Chicano StudiesAs America’s Latino diaspora evolves, so does the fieldBy Roberto RodriguezFounded some 30 years ago and at one time believed to be on the verge of extinction, the field of Chicano studies is constantly expanding. As Puerto Rican and Cuban communities grew in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s, so did the […]
September 27, 2000
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Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students
Wyoming Seeks to Boost Numbers of Minority Students LARAMIE, Wyo. A new committee has been formed at the University of Wyoming to help boost enrollment of minorities. The Multicultural Campus Visit Committee is aiming to increase ethnic enrollment to 1,400 students by 2005. “Our committee’s goals right now are to increase the number of minority […]
September 27, 2000
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Valedictorians Suing State of Arkansas
Valedictorians Suing State of ArkansasOnly Four Blacks Among 808 Scholarship RecipientsLITTLE ROCK, Ark. Two high school valedictorians claim in a federal lawsuit that the state of Arkansas is practicing racial discrimination in the way it chooses elite students for scholarships. The lawsuit says only four Black students are among the 808 recipients since 1997 under […]
September 27, 2000
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Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity
Bowdoin Uses Scholarships to Increase Racial and Ethnic Student Diversity BRUNSWICK, Maine The racial and ethnic makeup of the student body at Bowdoin College will be more diverse this fall because of two scholarship programs that are counteracting the state’s disadvantages in attracting minority students.Scholarships from the Posse Foundation, along with the Chamberlain Leadership Scholarship, […]
September 27, 2000
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