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Mississippi mayhem – Mississippi desegregation ruling may harm black college applicants
At this time of year, college recruiters are processing the flood of applications from potential students. But not at Mississippi Valley State University.
June 16, 2007
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Stopping the raid on student aid
Washington In an assessment of the past political year at a Quality Education for Minorities luncheon, Dr. David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education said that threats to financial aid have been defeated and that affirmative action is still alive.
June 16, 2007
Students
Drop in Black engineering enrollments confounds experts
As they try to meet the demands of a world on the threshold of some of humankind’s most ambitious projects, engineering school officials throughout the nation are searching for an answer to the same question: Where are the students?
June 16, 2007
Students
Women still face “chilly classroom climate.” – classroom environment in women’s education
To ensure that women are treated fairly in college classrooms it is not enough for colleges to end discriminatory behavior. They need to change a “chilly classroom climate,” says a new study by the National Association for Women in Education.
June 16, 2007
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Georgia gov. proposes major changes in lottery program – Governor Zell Miller
Augusta, GA The Georgia Lottery has produced cash for winners and scholarships for students. But Gov. Zell Miller (D) has proposed changes in the system that critics charge could deny hundreds of African Americans the hope of going to college.
June 16, 2007
Students
Reading race in antiquity: the many fallacies of Mary Lefkowitz
Future historians will write that no intellectual idea has been so maligned in the 20th century as Afrocentric theory, the idea that African people are agents and actors in history.
June 16, 2007
Students
Senate Report Questions Student Lender’s Old Rewards System
LINCOLN Neb. Student lender Nelnet used a points system to reward members of an advisory board with donations to universities in exchange for attending meetings and providing ideas, according to a U.S. Senate report.
June 15, 2007
Students
Going after the high-flying scholars: Florida A & M University ranks among the best in enticing high school best and brightest – Recruitment & Retention
FAMU Ranks Among theBest in Enticing High School Best and Brightest.
June 15, 2007
Students
Priming the pump – University of Virginia School of Medicine program has historically Black institutions as recruitment partners – Recruitment & Retention
UVa Program Involves HBCUs in Recruiting Minority Medical Students.
June 15, 2007
Students
On-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & Retention
New Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.
June 15, 2007
Students
2004: Maryland’s reform odyssey – educational reform – includes related article – Recruitment & retention
BALTIMORE, MD When states first began requiring students to meet minimum course requirements and pass competency tests before graduating high school, some educators worried that the new standards would cause students — especially minority and disadvantaged students — to fail at higher rates and drop out more often than was already the case.
June 15, 2007
Students
1996 Ad
Higher education programs got a partial reprieve recently when Congress and the Clinton administration declared a truce in their budget battle and provided important funding, along with student aid guidelines that will last through mid-March.
June 15, 2007
Students
Getting to the ‘real information.’ – the Student-Right-to-Know Act and colleges and universities academic profile – Recruitment & Retention
Five years after the Student-Right-to-Know Act went into effect, there are still concerns about reporting requirements and how they should be compared.
June 15, 2007
Students
Birth of an institution – the Normal School, Tuskegee, Alabama
Dear Friends: I arrived here four weeks ago. Instead of finding my work in a low marshy country as I expected, I find Tuskegee a beautiful town, with a high and healthy location. It is a town such as one rarely sees in the South. Its quiet shady streets and tasteful and rich dwellings remind one of a New England village. After my arrival I had one week in which to prepare for the opening of the Normal School. I utilized this time in seeing the teachers and others who wished to enter the school, and in getting a general idea of my work and the people. Sunday, I spoke in both churches to the people about the school, and told all who wished to enter to come and see me at my boarding place during the week. About thirty persons called and had their names enrolled, others called whose names, for various reasons, I could not enroll. With the young people many of the parents came. I was particularly impressed with the desire of the parents to educate their children, whatever might be the sacrifice.
June 15, 2007
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Derailing student tracking: SCLC, others strive to eliminate educational channelling – Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Forty-two years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools, many classrooms are not yet fully integrated because of the academic performance of Black students and their perceived ability to learn.
June 15, 2007
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Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association
In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.
June 15, 2007
Students
Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education
Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.
June 15, 2007
Students
An interview with Tim Reid – Interview
When veteran actor Tim Reid got sick and tired of being sick and tired of the negative images of African Americans he saw on the silver screen, he decided to go behind the camera and produce “positive feature films” for the African-American community.
June 15, 2007
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