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Section: Demographics
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Hampton Coachās Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas ā A judge has dismissed a college basketball coachās civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University womenās coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers [ā¦]
January 5, 2000
Students
Events
EventsJanuaryJan.Ā 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International ConferenceāAdvancing Women in Higher EducationāNew OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th National African American Student Leadership ConferenceāNew Dimensions of African American [ā¦]
January 5, 2000
Students
Events
DecemberDec. 27-30, 1999Modern Languages Association115th Annual ConventionChicagoPhone:Ā (212) 475-9972E-mail: mkraus@mla.orgWeb: www.mla.orgĀ JanuaryJan.Ā 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International ConferenceāAdvancing Women in Higher EducationāNew OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
African-American
BI News Briefs
Miss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. ā In a ruling praised by education partisans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a federal judge will allow a four-year college program to begin accepting students as early as next summer, if funding allows. Eight months after blocking college expansion plans on the Gulf Coast, [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
Disabilties
Washington Briefs
People of Color and WomenĀ Gain In EnrollmentWASHINGTON ā Students of color represent a larger share of the college population than they did at the beginning of this decade, a new Education Department report says.Minorities in 1997 accounted for 27 percent of all college students, up from 20 percent in 1990, says the study, Getting There: [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
Latinx
Students of Color Win in Final Education Budget
Students of Color Win in Final Education BudgetWASHINGTON āĀ Postsecondary institutions serving students of color earned some hard-fought budget victories as Congress concluded its business for the year.Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges all won funding increases in the final education budget bill for fiscal year 2000. HBCUs got a last-minute bonus when the [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
Students
Preparing to Cross the River
Preparing to Cross the River When I was growing up in Falmouth, Ky., I can remember my grandmother singing a song that put me to sleep and awakened me. The title of this song is āShall We Gather At the River.ā The final chorus still lingers in my mind: Ā āShall we gather at the river, [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
African-American
The Problem With Henry Louis Gatesā āAfrican Worldā
The Problem With Henry Louis Gatesā āAfrican WorldāThe beautiful African coastline in Ghana is studded with the haunted vestiges of slave fortresses built by European nations over a period of 400 years. It is not unlike the history of the European Slave Trade in other parts of West Africa, from Mauritania to Angola, where more [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Leadership & Policy
Professional Appontments
Professional AppontmentsGilberto Cardenas has been named assistant provost and director of the newly established Institute for Latino Studies and Julian Samora Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously an associate professor of sociology and executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Texas. Cardenas [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Latinx
New Networking
New NetworkingLast month, the National Science Foundation announced that it would spend $5.9 million over four years to assist minority-serving higher education institutions in bringing the latest computer networking technology to their campuses and establishing the management and staffing skills necessary to create and sustain these technologies.Known as the NSF Advanced Networking Project with Minority-Serving [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Native Americans
Appalachian, American Indian Students Bridge Cultural Divide
Appalachian, American Indian Students Bridge Cultural DivideCUMBERLAND, Ky. ā Kristen Foley, a fourth-generation resident in Harlan County, is separated by 1,253 miles from some new friends ā Sioux Indians living on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, S.D. Through a course offered jointly at Southeast Community College here and at Sinte Gleska University on the reservation, [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Students
Tribal College Students Petition Congress for More Financial Help
Tribal College Students Petition Congress for More Financial HelpSANTA FE, N.M.Ā āĀ Students at the Institute of American Indian Arts have started a letter-writing campaign to Congress and are seeking help from their tribes, saying the school needs more support than itās getting. Under a compromise version of funding for the school, the institute is [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Students
Inappropriate Monikers
Inappropriate MonikersAs minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubiousĀ distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legaciesBy Paul MuschickCHAPEL HILL, N.C. ā Kristi Booker thought her fellow students didnāt know what they were talking about when they told her Saunders Hall here at the University of North Carolinaās [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Students
Washington Briefs
High Court Hears Controversial Fees CaseWASHINGTON ā The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month heard arguments in a case that may have major implications for campus-based organizations that represent students of color.The case focuses on the University of Wisconsin and its policy of collecting mandatory fees from students ā money the university ultimately uses to [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
African-American
Testing Your Diversity Knowledge
Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative ActionĀ Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
Students
Expanding The Top Tier
Expanding The Top Tier Ā College Board calls for āaffirmative developmentā to enlarge pool of high-achieving students of colorNEW YORK ā Although considerable national efforts have been directed at bringing poor students and students of color up to minimal standards academically, little effort has been focused towards ensuring that African American, Latino, and Native American children [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
Students
BI Whatās New
The University of Missouri-Columbia has instituted a new Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative designed to recruit and train underrepresented minority graduate students as researchers. The initiative is being funded by a four-year, $1.27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.The program will provide fellowships for 20 non-degree graduate students, 20 graduate research assistants and [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
African-American
BI News Briefs
Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student UnionJACKSONVILLE, Fla. ā Black students at the University of North Florida rallied for the preservation of the African American Student Union after a student government agency decided the organization was unconstitutional.The decision last month to dissolve the African American Student Union was made by a [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
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