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‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’
‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’Twenty legal and legislative milestones in higher educationThis timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education almost as long as Black Issues In Higher Education has been in print. The ongoing legal battles have primarily involved the further desegregation of schools and the use of […]
June 16, 2004
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On The Right Path
On The Right PathOver the past 20 years, colleges and universities continue to experience an increase in the number of American Indian/Alaska Native students receiving degreesAccounting for only 1 percent of the total U.S. population, American Indians have a 60 percent to 70 percent high school dropout rate, the highest among all minority groups. At […]
June 16, 2004
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The State of Latino Education: A War Against Ignorance
The State of Latino Education: A War Against IgnoranceThe population of Latinos in the United States has skyrocketed to approximately 40 million, and they’ve begun to move into virtually every state in the union, particularly into the Midwest, Northwest and Southeast. Yet, with the exception of many schools in the Southwest, many schools from K-12 […]
June 16, 2004
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Looking Toward The Future
Looking Toward The Future New research helps Black sororities and fraternities consider new governing structures for the next 100 years By Paul RuffinsAmerica’s Black college-based fraternity and sorority movement is rapidly approaching two historic milestones. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. (NPHC), and 2006 marks a full century since […]
June 16, 2004
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Where the Boys Aren’t
Where the Boys Aren’t The decline of Black males in colleges and universities has sociologists and educators concerned about the future of the African American communityBy David HefnerWhen sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote these words more than 100 years ago, life in America was infinitely different for Blacks. For all its evils, segregation offered the […]
June 16, 2004
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Not Your Father’s Community College
Not Your Father’s Community CollegeNew programs, increased visibility boost two-year institutions’ appealBy Lydia LumPublic perception of community colleges has improved so much in the past two decades that they are no longer regarded as higher education’s last resort. Many two-year schools have increased the number and visibility of honors programs. They have signed deals with […]
June 16, 2004
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NEA Study Finds Stagnant Resources Jeopardize Public Schools
NEA Study Finds Stagnant Resources Jeopardize Public SchoolsInvestments in public schools are not keeping pace with the needs of our children, according to an education funding report released last month by the National Education Association (NEA).Last fall, nearly 400,000 additional children entered the nation’s classrooms, representing the 19th consecutive rise in school enrollment. Yet, annual […]
June 16, 2004
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Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access Bill
Congress’ Debate Deepens Over Republican College Access BillBy Patricia Troumpoucis The debate over the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is deepening between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives as they focus on student aid — specifically student loans and Pell Grants. Democrats say the changes Republicans recently proposed in a new […]
June 16, 2004
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Shut Out Of the System
Shut Out Of the System As competition increases for slots at UC-Berkeley, admission offers to minority students continue to declineBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.As University of California officials announced admissions results for the fall, it appeared that increasing competition for seats at the university, rising tuition costs, and continued controversy over the role of race in […]
June 2, 2004
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New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based Aid
New Study Calls for Boosting Need-Based AidWASHINGTONA new study is lauding the positive impact that a college education can have on what it calls “our shared economic, social and cultural well-being as a nation,” and calls for increased funding for Pell Grants.“While policy-makers and education leaders cite the fact that a bachelor’s degree has become […]
June 2, 2004
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Leaving No Child Behind In Science Education
Leaving No Child Behind  In Science EducationWith the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 several changes have been implemented that require states, colleges of education, school districts and others to rethink ways to improve teacher certification. One aspect of this legislation is that each public school must have a “highly qualified” […]
June 2, 2004
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Student Group Uses Internet To Foster Democracy
Student Group Uses Internet To Foster Democracy SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.This spring, hundreds of college students around the world are promoting  — via the Internet — global dialogue to nurture democracy. The project is being undertaken by the Student World Assembly (SWA), a global network of several hundred “wired” university students based at the California […]
May 5, 2004
Students
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on Campus
The Best-Kept Secret: Crime on CampusIn Indiana, a Ball State University student’s lifeless, bullet-riddled body is discovered at dawn, wedged between the seats of his car. A 19-year-old Iowa student is stabbed to death in plain sight in a campus-dining hall at the Maharishi University. A Fort Hays college freshman is savagely beaten just off […]
May 5, 2004
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Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public Colleges
Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesBy Garry BoulardA long-simmering, trans-regional dispute is pitting mostly Southern and Western Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives against their Republican and Democratic counterparts from the East over the way campus-based federal aid is distributed.Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on […]
May 5, 2004
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Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop Generation
Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop GenerationScholarship on the genre moves beyond a project of legitimization into a more self-critical, challenging realmA hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference?The congressmen’s […]
April 21, 2004
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Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural Impact
Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural ImpactScholars are poised to take a close look at the influence of hip-hop on the social identity, values of today’s youth.By Ronald RoachAs a cultural movement, hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people, especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand, there are […]
April 21, 2004
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Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College
Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]
April 21, 2004
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Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing Participation
Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing ParticipationFor the fourth time in as many months, the Bush administration is easing the restrictions of its education law, this time in the area of testing. The latest move is to reduce the number of students a school may test without running afoul of the law.The No Child […]
April 21, 2004
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