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Community Colleges

Federal government bolsters support for educational technology – includes related article about high school seniors’ selecting colleges by Internet

It may lack the fiscal health of America’s giant computer firms, but the federal government has emerged recently as a central funding source for schools and colleges to access educational technology.

July 10, 2007

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

When Emma Bradford Perry arrived at Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge from Harvard four years ago to head up that school’s library, the first thing she did close the card catalog.

July 10, 2007

Ed. Department, Congress Focus On Community College Transfer of Credit Problem

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses. That’s why U.S. Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and many scholars are looking for answers that will help more students transfer credits when they move from one higher education institution to another.

July 10, 2007

California’s Community College System Gets Students Into School But Not Always Out

SAN DIEGO For most of history, higher education has been reserved for a tiny elite.

July 9, 2007

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

July 9, 2007

U of North Alabama First In State To Offer Culinary Arts Degree

FLORENCE Ala. The University of North Alabama is the state’s first four-year public college to cook up a culinary arts degree.

July 8, 2007

Community Colleges

Bishop State Gets Transition Team to Help Fix Financial Problems

MOBILE, Ala. Alabama College System chancellor Bradley Byrne has created for Bishop State Community College a transition team, lead by the administrator to replace outgoing president Dr. Yvonne Kennedy, to help the college recover from the financial scandal that has threatened the predominately Black institution’s accreditation.

July 8, 2007

Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

Forty-three years have passed since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated the nation’s public schools, yet America’s war over equal educational opportunities continues to rage. And the most heated battles in recent years have centered around access to education at the postsecondary level.

July 7, 2007

An open letter – Black colleges

This is excerpted from an open letter sent by Alvin Chambliss Jr., Esquire, of Texas Southern University, to Dr. Elias Blake Jr., executive director, Benjamin E. Mays Institute, concerning historically Black colleges and universities.

July 7, 2007

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas While the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have experienced a decline in minority applicants because of the Hopwood ruling, officials at Stephen F. Austin State University in eastern Texas anticipate an increase in minority enrollment this fall.

July 7, 2007

Leslie V. Forte: the woman behind the name on the scholarship – Obituary

Her life was a struggle. She grew up poor in the gritty projects of Los Angeles. She left California a well-educated woman with an associate’s degree from a community college, a master’s degree from Stanford University and an effervescent love for teaching.

July 7, 2007

Private scholarships for minorities challenged

Annandale, Va. The latest assault on the higher education establishment’s affirmative action programs is over an obscure, $500 private scholarship for minority students at a community college in Northern Virginia.

July 7, 2007

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 6, 2007

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

July 6, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

July 5, 2007

Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn

Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

July 5, 2007