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Making the Grade?

Making the Grade?Black coaches issue report card on minority hiringBy Ronald RoachNearly two-thirds of 28 colleges got an A or B in the first Black Coaches Association “report card” that evaluated the process used to hire a new head football coach. The report looked at the schools in Divisions I-A and I-AA that had an […]

December 15, 2004

Something All His Own

Something All His OwnThe NBA’s Grant Hill hopes his collection of African American art will inspire, excite a younger generationBy Crystal L. KeelsNBA star Grant Hill is known for his skills on the basketball court, his marriage to Grammy award-winning singer, Tamia, and, most recently, for his courageous comeback after several surgeries that jeopardized his […]

December 1, 2004

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]

December 1, 2004

A Pathway to the Presidency

A Pathway to the PresidencyStudent affairs professionals are increasingly moving into the top job on college campuses By Kendra HamiltonIf you took a random sampling of student affairs professionals, they’d all agree: without the work they do with students, campus functions would simply grind to a halt. “Student affairs professionals spend 80 percent of their time […]

November 17, 2004

Some NCAA Schools Get High Marks From Black Coaches Group

Some NCAA Schools Get High Marks From Black Coaches GroupINDIANAPOLIS The Black Coaches Association (BCA) still wants more minority hires in college football. But the group’s new report card finds that most Division I schools are increasing their efforts to include minorities in the search process.Seventeen of 28 Division I-A and I-AA schools received either […]

November 3, 2004

Arthur Ashe Commemorative Stamp Unveiled at U.S. Open

Arthur Ashe Commemorative Stamp Unveiled at U.S. OpenWASHINGTONArthur Ashe, humanitarian and world-class tennis star, will be immortalized on a commemorative postage stamp to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005. The announcement came last month during the unveiling of the stamp image as part of the Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day presented by Hess, […]

September 22, 2004

Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for Success

Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for SuccessWASHINGTONStudents who attend boarding schools find greater success than their peers in college and in adult life, according to a new study conducted by the Arts & Science Group of Baltimore on behalf of The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS).For the study, the Arts & Science Group interviewed […]

August 11, 2004

NCAA Violations Cause MEAC to Strip FAMU of Championships

NCAA Violations Cause MEAC to Strip FAMU of Championships TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference plans to take away Florida A&M University’s 2000 and 2001 football titles and nine other championships as punishment for committing 196 NCAA rule violations. The penalties were listed in a June 29 letter written by MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas and […]

July 28, 2004

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High School

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High SchoolCORAL GABLES, Fla.The University of Miami has partnered with a private Florida-based K-12 school to collaborate on an online high school. Last fall, the Sagemont School in Weston approached the university with plans for a partnership that would allow the university’s professors to conduct […]

July 14, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Back in theTrenches

Back in theTrenchesDr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane became Duke University’s eighth president when she arrived on campus in July 1993. She also became the university’s first female president. And after 11 years of leading the 12,000-student campus in Durham, N.C., Keohane is stepping down this month to return to teaching and research. Keohane has been called […]

June 30, 2004

Riding the Crest of a Wave

Riding the Crest of a WaveOne of Black Issues’ first writers reflects on the growth of a well-timed publicationBy Eileen M. O’BrienIt’s always fun to ride the crest of a wave. As one of the first writers at Black Issues In Higher Education, I quickly realized the publication had impeccable timing, covering diversity and minority-serving […]

June 16, 2004

Stanford Names Johnson Head Basketball Coach

Stanford Names Johnson Head Basketball CoachPALO ALTO, Calif.Trent Johnson, a former assistant basketball coach at Stanford University, has returned to the Palo Alto university to coach, but this time he’s running the show.Stanford announced that Johnson will replace Mike Montgomery as the head coach as of last month. Montgomery left Stanford to take the head […]

June 16, 2004

Events

JUNEJune 17-19BIHE Inaugural National Conference20th Anniversary Conference and Celebration“Benchmarks & Barriers for People of Color in Higher Education”Marriott Crystal GatewayArlington, Va. Tel: (703) 385-2981Web: www.blackissues.comJune 17-1920th Anniversary Zora Neale Hurston Society Conference “‘Fingering the Jagged Grain,’ Keeping the Pain of Pan-African and Post-Colonial Literary Criticism Alive, and Restructuring the Canon for the 21st Century” Hyatt […]

June 2, 2004

Funding Shortages Push Back Central State Football Program

Funding Shortages Push Back Central State Football ProgramXENIA, OhioFunding issues forced the delay of the return of Ohio’s Central State University Marauder football program, according to a report in the Dayton Daily News. A fall 2004 comeback was highly anticipated at the historically Black school located in Xenia, Ohio, but approximately $600,000 is needed to […]

May 5, 2004

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry PITTSBURGHThrough May 15, Carnegie Mellon University is piloting eSuds, a Web-based laundry system, in three residence halls. If all goes well with the pilot, the system will be installed campuswide this August, just in time for the 2004-05 school year. eSuds, which was developed by USA Technologies Inc., […]

April 21, 2004

Former Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black Athletes

Former Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black AthletesSOUTH BEND, Ind.Just one day after suggesting that Notre Dame needed to lower their academic standards to “get the Black athlete,” former Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung said he regretted his comments.“I was wrong,” Hornung told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “What I should […]

April 21, 2004

Let the Games Begin

Let the Games Begin— AgainHBCU coaches and administrators give their play-by-play accounts of the benefits of reviving college football programs By Crystal L. KeelsIt’s the pageantry, the precision, the rhythm and the music. It’s wave after wave of energetic flute, trumpet, tuba and drum players wearing colorful uniforms and executing intricate steps. It’s the dramatic […]

April 7, 2004

Creating a Successful Student-Athlete

Creating a Successful Student-AthleteDiscipline, focus and hard work are just a few attributes, says advising expert Dr. Ruth Darling By Kendra HamiltonCritics of big-time college sports have been working for decades to control the rampant rise in commercialization on campus — and to hold the line on academic integrity. But the balancing act is a […]

April 7, 2004