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Report Finds Slight Gains in Minority Broadcast Ownership

Report Finds Slight Gains in Minority Broadcast OwnershipWashingtonThe U.S. Department of Commerce has released a report, titled Changes, Challenges, and Charting New Courses: Minority Commercial Broadcast Ownership in the United States, that provides the latest data on minority ownership, assesses the impact on minority ownership of the recent trends in industry consolidation and highlights the […]

February 28, 2001

African-American

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in Boston

Harvard Establishes a Digital Divide Program in BostonBostonLast fall, news of the sale of Africana.com to the AOL Time Warner company generated considerable attention for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies, and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor in the university’s Afro-American Studies Department, who were founders and […]

February 28, 2001

African-American

State Board Investigates Civil Rights Complaint at Bluefield State University

State Board Investigates Civil Rights Complaint at Bluefield State UniversityCHARLESTON, W.Va. The Higher Education Interim Governing Board is investigating complaints of civil rights violations at Bluefield State College, the board chairwoman said recently. The board sent two consultants — a vice president of West Virginia University and a Marshall University lawyer — to the college […]

February 28, 2001

House Education Committee Assigns Responsibility for HBCU, HSI Programs to New Subcommittee

House Education Committee Assigns Responsibility for HBCU, HSI Programs to New Subcommittee Democratic committee members say shift means second-class status for minority institutionsAn unexpected but heated debate on congressional oversight of Black colleges is threatening to thwart efforts at bipartisan education policy early in 2001.And the partisan rancor is surfacing from what is usually a […]

February 28, 2001

African-American

Study Shows African American Girls Inclined to Science Early

Study Shows African American Girls Inclined to Science EarlyWashingtonYoung African American females show a strong inclination toward science in their high school years because of strong female role models in their lives — usually their working mothers, according to a study completed at The Catholic University of America. However, the researchers also concluded that both […]

February 14, 2001

African-American

Events

EventsFEBRUARY Feb. 11-13United Negro College Fund Special Programs CorporationDepartment of Defense HBCU/MITechnical Assistance Conference“Opportunities in the 21st Century”MiamiContact: Paula DickersonE-mail: Paula.Dickerson@uncfsp.orgPhone: (703) 205-7643Web: www.uncfsp.org/idapFeb. 12-137th Annual African American Student Leadership Conference“Connecting Progressive African Minds for Effective Leadership: A Continuing Legacy”Rust CollegeHolly Springs, Miss.Contact: Dr. A.J. StovallPhone: (662) 252-6107Fax: (662) 252-6107E-mail: ajstovall@go.comWeb: www.naaslc.orgFeb. 12-17National Association of […]

January 31, 2001

The Need Still Exists for Black Student Unions

The Need Still Exists for Black Student UnionsAs a racial and ethnic minority of Asian and African American heritages, I have experienced the importance of having social networks and interactions with people — especially people of color. Despite integration, civil rights gains and living in an era of diversity and multiculturalism, people still seek to […]

January 31, 2001

Report Shows More Americans with High School, College Diplomas

Report Shows More Americans with High School, College DiplomasWashington American adults are better educated, according to new Census Bureau estimates. Of Americans age 25 and older this year, a record-high 84.1 percent had at least a high school degree, up from 83.4 percent in 1999 and 24.5 percent in 1940, the earliest records available, according […]

January 17, 2001

Federal Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges Increases Under Final Budget Agreement

Federal Funding for Minority-Serving Colleges Increases Under Final Budget AgreementBy Charles DervaricsFederal funding for minority-serving colleges, including historically Black colleges and universities, will increase significantly under the final 2001 budget agreement between the White House and Congress.Nearly three months into the new fiscal year, the two sides finally came together on an agreement just before […]

January 17, 2001

African-American

Embracing ‘Black is Beautiful’

Embracing ‘Black is Beautiful’A frican Americans have long had a seriously vexed relationship with the very notion of beauty.”We were stripped of everything — all our tools, our rituals, our practices from the moment of our arrival on this continent,” says Mikki Taylor, beauty director and cover editor of Essence magazine. “We were brought to […]

January 3, 2001

African-American

Joint Center Releases 1999 National Count Of Black Elected Officials

Joint Center Releases 1999 National Count Of Black Elected OfficialsWashingtonThe Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies last month released its 1999 count of Black elected officials, showing a net increase of 68 for a total of 8,936 between January 1998 and January 1999. With this increase, the representation of Black elected officials among all […]

January 3, 2001

Fraternity Accused of Taping Swastika on Black Student’s Car

Fraternity Accused of Taping Swastika on Black Student’s Car ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A University of New Mexico fraternity accused of duct-taping a swastika on a Black student’s car has been placed on emergency suspension. University administrators say they placed the Sigma Chi chapter on suspension and that the rights, privileges, charter and affiliation with UNM are […]

January 3, 2001

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of Desegregation

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of DesegregationAthens, Ga.‘Two-four-six-eight! We don’t want to integrate!” were the chants from the crowd that greeted Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes — the first two African American students to integrate the University of Georgia 40 years ago Jan. 9. To mark the 40 years since UGA was desegregated, the […]

January 3, 2001

Native Americans

Education Department Offers New Funds to HSIs, Tribal Colleges

Education Department Offers New Funds to HSIs, Tribal CollegesThe U.S. Dept. of Education is offering new grants to support improvements at Hispanic-serving colleges and universities and tribal institutions.The Education Department made applications available Nov. 30 for new grants under the Title V HSI grant program and the Title III Higher Education Act program for tribal […]

December 20, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Year 2000: A Retrospective

Year 2000: A RetrospectiveT he year 2000 brought with it plenty of news and many “firsts,” such as Dr. Ruth Simmons being named the first African American to lead Brown University, an Ivy League institution, and Dr. James Walker who became the first African American president of Southern Illinois University. Lawsuits against universities for using […]

December 20, 2000

Asian American Pacific Islander

Think TANKs in the United States

Think TANKs in the United States• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), Washington• American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), Washington• Asia Pacific Policy Center (APPC), Washington• Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC), Stanford, Calif.• Asia Society, New York• The Aspen Institute, Washington• Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS), Washington• Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Fairfax, Va.• Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE), Berkeley, Calif.• The Brookings […]

December 20, 2000

African-American

What’s Happening to Our “Talented Tenth?”

What’s Happening to Our “Talented Tenth?”As the father of two boys who have grown into young men, I have become a keen observer of the behavior of African American males, particularly those who attend predominantly White institutions. Black men at selective public and private campuses are said to be “the best of the best.” Dr. […]

December 6, 2000

Bridging the Digital Divide From the Sky

Bridging the Digital Divide From the SkyLINCOLN, Neb. The conventional approach by non-profit groups and corporations to digital divide initiatives is to provide computers, Internet access and technology training to people in disadvantaged communities. For academic institutions, however, attacking the Digital Divide means programs must combine a research agenda with the delivery of new technology […]

December 6, 2000