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HBCUs
Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment
JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.
July 12, 2007
HBCUs
The top 100: interpreting the data – students of color
For the seventh consecutive year, the publishers of Black Issues have asked me to to produce lists of the institutions that confer the largest number of degrees to students of color in the United States. These simple lists are presented with the objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.
July 12, 2007
Community Colleges
Proprietary preference – for-profit colleges
One of the surprises emerging from Black Issues’s analysis of the top one hundred institutions conferring degrees on people of color was in the rise of proprietary colleges as major players — particularly in the fields of engineering-related technologies, computer science, and business.
July 12, 2007
HBCUs
The surging degree wave
As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.
July 12, 2007
Students
Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York
The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.
July 12, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
July 12, 2007
Students
New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York
The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.
July 12, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Powerful sisters – college presidents – Cover Story
Within only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.
July 12, 2007
Students
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New partnerships with minority-serving institutions are designed to improve the count while training young scientists
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents
Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
African American college presidents in decline
Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing
July 12, 2007
HBCUs
NAFEO signs new technology partner – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. In a development that is expected to bring the latest and most advanced information technology to the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), an Atlanta-based technology company and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) have formed an alliance to make it easier for the schools to acquire technology.
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills
Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?
July 12, 2007
Sports
Clinton’s race initiative on tour: sports was focus of the latest national town hall meeting – includes related article on higher education
Sports provided the focus of President Bill Clinton’s second town hall meeting on race relations in America. Clinton and leading collegiate and professional sports figures participated in a lively meeting and discussion, which was held at the University of Houston on April 14, 1998. The televised forum was entitled, “Race & Sports; Running in Place?”
July 12, 2007
Sports
In sports, those making the off-the field decision remain overwhelmingly White – Coaches Cornered: The 1997 Racial Report Card
With so many Black athletes claiming center stage in the sports universe, one might be inclined to declare that athletics is the one slice of American life where equal opportunity abounds. Some might even say that sports represent a model of ethnic diversity that should be admired and emulated by all.
July 12, 2007
Sports
Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action
July 12, 2007
HBCUs
Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story
The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University’s undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in physics there in 1876.
July 12, 2007
Community Colleges
Embracing the Tiger: The Effectiveness Debate and the Community College. – book reviews
The two most important words in community college faculty and administrative lexicons these days are institutional effectiveness.
July 12, 2007
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