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Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks PromisingWASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall.HBCUs in 1997 received less than 1 percent of all higher […]

November 10, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr. has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned […]

October 27, 1999

BI News Brief

Minority Enrollment Continues to Drop at California Medical SchoolsOAKLAND, Calif. — University of California officials have appointed a task force to investigate why minority enrollment is dropping at the system’s five medical schools. In 1993, 103 Black and Mexican American students enrolled at University of California medical schools. This fall, the total was 59. That […]

October 27, 1999

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’s

Senate’s Funding Formula More Generous to Education Than House’sWASHINGTON — Amid predictions of a federal budget meltdown, historically Black colleges and universities and sponsors of college access programs got a little bit of good news from the U.S. Senate this month.In its most definitive statement yet on the year 2000 education budget, Senate leaders came […]

October 27, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Learning From Wilt And Milt

Learning From Wilt And MiltI was among those stunned earlier this month at the news that basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain and jazz legend Milt Jackson had died within days of each other. Chamberlain’s giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoring were […]

October 27, 1999

African-American

New Views on Malcolm X

New Views on Malcolm XFrom a 1941 letter to friend Zelma Holman in Michigan, written from Boston by 16-year-old Malcolm —Dearest Zel,Sorry I haven’t gotten around to writing you sooner but I have been very busy. You know how we traveling men are. How is everything in Jackson. Boston’s fine. The place is really jumpin’ […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Rethinking Malcolm X

Rethinking Malcolm XATLANTA — Early writings by Malcolm X went on public display for the first time at Emory University here last month, offering a new glimpse of the fiery orator who advocated Black nationalism and raised government suspicion. The papers, which could alter Americans’ perceptions of Malcolm X, are the only known collection of […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Raising the Bar for Middle-Class Blacks

Raising the Bar for Middle-Class BlacksNext month, Jenna Bond-Louden will board a plane for North Carolina where she and other college seniors will spend all day learning to write a college essay that will wow admissions officers. Her parents have already shelled out hundreds of dollars for the Baltimore senior to take SAT prep classes.There […]

October 13, 1999

Native Americans

American Indian Colleges Get $30M

American Indian Colleges Get $30MWASHINGTON — Tribal colleges struggling on campuses cobbled together from old Army barracks, double-wide trailers or decommissioned high schools are getting a $30 million donation to help with construction and renovation.“We’re aware of the conditions at these tribal colleges, and felt that since we had the resources, we’d like to be […]

October 13, 1999

House Unveils New Budget

House Unveils New BudgetCreative Accounting Could Provide Some Higher Education Programs With Increases Despite Budget Cap WASHINGTON — Some long-awaited predictions came true, late last month, as the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a controversial budget plan that relies heavily on innovative accounting to avoid deep cuts in education spending.Among other provisions, the bill would […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Professional Appointment

ACADEMICLisa R. Elliott has been named communications coordinator for Cleveland State University’s office of minority affairs and community relations. Previously, she managed a marketing communications firm, Aspire Marketing. Elliot holds a bachelor’s in speech from Northwestern University.Dr. Allen J. Green has been named dean of studies and student life at Sarah Lawrence College. He comes […]

September 29, 1999

African-American

Africa:Through Skip Gates’ Eyes

Africa:Through Skip Gates’ EyesIn his poem “Heritage,” Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen once asked, “What is Africa to me?” Harvard University’s Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. struggles with the very same question in a PBS documentary that will air next month over the course of three nights. Throughout the six-part Wonders of the African […]

September 29, 1999

Higher Education’s Money Man

Higher Education’s Money Man An Interview With United Negro College Fund President Bill GrayWhen William H. Gray, at the age of 50, announced in 1991 that he was leaving his Majority Whip post in the U.S. House of Representatives to head the United Negro College Fund, many believed his brightest days were behind him. Two […]

September 29, 1999

African-American

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio — The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. […]

September 29, 1999

Making the Circle a Circle

Making the Circle a CircleOf the myriad challenges facing Native American college students, retention appears to be the most dauntingALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Leaving the reservation for college wasn’t too hard for Rozanna Benaly, a Utah teen who already had lived away from home at the Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington.But it’s different this time. School […]

September 29, 1999

African-American

Demanding Quality Leadership

Demanding Quality LeadershipIt is commonly said that African Americans suffer from a lack of leadership. Yet, whenever someone begins to wield significant power, too often the campaign to unseat him or her is not far behind.Certainly, no one should be allowed to set an agenda or lead without censure. But rather than tearing folks down […]

September 29, 1999

Private Party

Private PartyPlagued by sexually-lewd behavior and violence, one of the largest Black fraternity gatherings in the country is no longer a public event and some say that while it’s unfortunate, it may be the wave of the futurePhiladelphia — At first, it seemed that the 1999 Philadelphia Greek Picnic had all of the support that […]

September 15, 1999

Rap Session on Race

Rap Session on RaceAs Clinton calls for a second round of campus dialogue on race, some wonder how successful the first was; others praise efforts as a useful starting pointWASHINGTON — President Clinton created the President’s Initiative on Race to “help build One America in the 21st Century — a nation of people who respect […]

September 15, 1999