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Mixed Response Greets Governor Bush at FAMU

Mixed Response Greets Governor Bush at FAMUTALLAHASSEE, Fla.About a dozen students walked out last month before Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gave a Martin Luther King Jr. day address at historically Black Florida A&M University. The 150-seat auditorium classroom was filled to capacity when the group, identified only as “students of FAMU,” handed out a one-page […]

February 11, 2004

A Question of Merit

A Question of Merit By Dee Anne FinkenATLANTATen years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled […]

January 28, 2004

Keeping Score on the Administration

Keeping Score on the AdministrationEarlier this month President Bush went on the road to mark the second anniversary of his signing of the No Child Left Behind Act. Bush visited schools where the administration had deemed the law a success to congratulate students, staff and parents on improving test scores. And yet, the Washington Post […]

January 28, 2004

Scholars of Note: Sociology

SociologyA Cutting-Edge ApproachEarl Wright IITitle: Assistant Professor, Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Central FloridaEducation: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; M.A., Sociology, University of Memphis; B.A., History/Black Studies, University of MemphisAge: 32Earl Wright II’s undergraduate academic career got off to a shaky start. His life had been one of football and partying. The […]

January 14, 2004

Merit Scholarship Programs Have Potential Flaws, Researchers Say

Merit Scholarship Programs Have Potential Flaws, Researchers SayUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.Broad-based merit scholarship programs designed to create incentives for underperforming high-school students have two potential flaws, according to Penn State researchers. “Our studies indicate that in the first year after a merit scholarship program is initiated, student test scores increase but they subsequently hit a ceiling, […]

January 14, 2004

Hampton’s Acting President Accepts Task Force Recommendations

Hampton’s Acting President Accepts Task Force RecommendationsHAMPTON, Va. Praising a faculty/student task force for “effectively and efficiently carrying out (its) charge,” the acting president of Hampton University, Dr. JoAnn Haysbert, has accepted a series of recommendations regarding the roles of the school, the staff and faculty advisers in the operation of the student newspaper, the […]

January 14, 2004

Morehouse Student Among 2004 Rhodes Scholars

Morehouse Student Among 2004 Rhodes ScholarsATLANTALate last month Oluwbusayo Folarin had only one more final at Morehouse College to take before going home to Grand Prairie, Texas, where he could begin to relish being named a Rhodes Scholar. “I have not had a chance to really think about (being named a Rhodes Scholar) because I’m […]

January 14, 2004

Study: Voucher Students Perform Same as Public School Peers

Study: Voucher Students Perform Same as Public School PeersCLEVELANDStudents in the Cleveland voucher program performed on the same level as their public school peers, according to the final part of a five-year Indiana University study. After tracking the test scores of 6,000 students from kindergarten through fourth grade, the researchers found virtually no difference in […]

January 14, 2004

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship Program

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship ProgramATLANTAEmory University has received a $247,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner in a new fellowship program that will place some of the university’s top graduate students in the classrooms of six colleges and universities in Atlanta and New Orleans. The program expands and enhances […]

December 31, 2003

Surviving Tough Times

Surviving Tough TimesOverall, historically Black colleges and universities’ compassionate and noble mission of educating and nurturing young African American minds has not changed over the years, but leaders at Black campuses are now increasingly having to temper that with tough business decisions. Streamlining, attracting executive leadership and finding new revenue is the name of the […]

December 31, 2003

Education Department Takes Steps to Curb Identity Theft Among Students

Education Department Takes Steps to Curb Identity Theft Among StudentsU.S. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige urged college students to be aware of the growing problem of identity theft, and announced recently several action steps the Department of Education is taking to help combat this problem. Paige made the announcement at a December press conference held […]

December 31, 2003

House Approves Legislation for Vouchers in Nation’s Capital

House Approves Legislation for Vouchers in Nation’s Capital Senate to act on the measure in late JanuaryThe U.S. House of Representatives last month gave final approval to legislation for taxpayer-funded vouchers for students in the District of Columbia. The legislation, backed by President Bush, will allow students to attend private and parochial schools. The Senate […]

December 31, 2003

Sharing the Responsibility: Increasing Black Male Student Enrollment

Sharing the Responsibility: Increasing Black Male Student EnrollmentEarlier this year, the University System of Georgia’s board of regents accepted 15 task-force recommendations designed to increase the number of African American males enrolling in Georgia’s colleges and universities (see Black Issues, Oct. 23). Yet, not one of the recommendations adequately incorporated the use of grass-roots efforts […]

December 17, 2003

California State University Expected to Turn Away Up to 15,000 Students Next Year

California State University Expected to Turn Away Up to 15,000 Students Next YearLONG BEACH, Calif.California State University expects to turn away up to 15,000 new students next year as it faces record enrollment growth and a statewide budget deficit, the chancellor said last month.Chancellor Charles B. Reed told trustees the 23-campus system would follow a […]

December 17, 2003

Report, Educators Call for More Study Abroad Programs

Report, Educators Call for More Study Abroad Programs Lack of global knowledge threatens the nation’s security, future, experts sayWASHINGTONAmericans don’t know enough about the world in which they live, according to a new report by an international-education task force, which calls for a “national effort” to reverse the trend. The report says higher education is […]

December 17, 2003

ETS Identifies Factors Affecting Student Achievement

ETS Identifies Factors Affecting Student AchievementThe Educational Testing Service (ETS) released a report last month detailing more than a dozen factors related to student achievement. “The gaps in student achievement mirror inequalities in those aspects of school, early life and home circumstances that research has linked to achievement,” says Paul Barton, author of the study, […]

December 17, 2003

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant Program

House Bill Could Return $340 Million To Pell Grant ProgramHouse Republicans introduced a bill last month to reduce fraud in the Pell Grant program, a move they say could free up as much as $340 million for the higher education program.The lawmakers say they would use the additional funds to provide the grants to more […]

December 17, 2003

Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student press

Hampton controversy illustrates long-standing tension between HBCUs and student pressBy Lydia LumHAMPTON, Va.Hampton University’s confiscation of student newspapers earlier this semester is a reminder of the long-standing problems of maintaining a free press at Black colleges and building strong journalism programs there. In fact, some media professionals have grown so skeptical of the integrity of […]

December 3, 2003