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HBCUs
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ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Black Issues Quiz
The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.
July 14, 2007
Students
Washington Update
HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress
July 14, 2007
Latinx
A United Way
Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation
July 14, 2007
Students
Grants & Awards
The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.
July 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
The Donation Station
Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges
July 14, 2007
Students
Chugging Toward Recovery
CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future
July 14, 2007
jenkins
Faculty & Staff
Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities
July 14, 2007
Students
Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College
Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Faculty focus on technology
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
How did they do that?
Forthcoming Mellon Foundation study documents activities that lead to African American success on standardized tests
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized
Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.
July 14, 2007
MSIs
Counting on accuracy – Census Bureau looks to minority higher education community for help
Now that the court has ruled against the use of statistical sampling, the U.S. Census Bureau looks to the minority higher education community for assistance
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Virginia’s experience – Virginia’s Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s push for accessible education for Black students
Despite what some viewed as the `ideal’ Black leadership team, education gains were limited during Wilder administration
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities
SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
HBCUs get wired for fall – historically Black colleges and universities
Summer is the season many colleges and universities schedule construction and renovation projects on their campuses because it is when such activity is least disruptive for faculty, administrators, and students.
July 13, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Padron’s way – Miami-Dade Community College
Combined with racial and faculty/administrative tensions, the take-charge style of President Eduardo J. Padron is creating a highly-charged power struggle at Miami-Dade Community College
July 13, 2007
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