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Section: Institutions

“This isn’t working!” New York’s mayor intends to take city’s community colleges out of the remediation business – Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani

New York In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city’s six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education.

July 11, 2007

Back from the brink – averted crisis for Central State University, Ohio

WILBERFORCE, Ohio Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal.

July 11, 2007

Through these eyes – photographs of P.H. Polk – Illustration

From 1939 until his death in 1984, Prentice Herman Polk taught It photography at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and was the official Campus Photographer. In 1933, he became chair of the university’s photography department. Polk owned one of Macon County, Alabama’s few private photography Studios and became a renowned portrait photographer.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The word from Moses – educator Yolanda T. Moses – Interview – Cover Story

“WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT AN INSTITUTION BECOMES THEIR REALITY UNLESS THAT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD.”

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Temple’s tenure in the Windy City in a tailspin – Ronald J. Temple, chancellor of Chicago, Illinois city colleges

CHICAGO The meeting of the City Colleges of Chicago board here earlier this month was full of all the pleasantries and light banter of a typical business meeting.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Temple’s tenure in the Windy City in a tailspin – Ronald J. Temple, chancellor of Chicago, Illinois city colleges

CHICAGO The meeting of the City Colleges of Chicago board here earlier this month was full of all the pleasantries and light banter of a typical business meeting.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Schools of cool: jazz performance education providing a different kind of gig – Cover Story

Janelle Gill is confident that she has a future in jazz. The eighteen-year-old freshman pianist began jazz performance studies last semester at Howard University. Since then, she has played in the school’s big band and the small-group jazz ensembles.

July 11, 2007

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Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The evolving HBCU niche – historically Black colleges and universities

In recent years, much has been written about the challenges confronting American higher education. There is a growing interest in applying standards of accountability, and many states have reduced financial support, as colleges and universities find themselves competing with prisons and health care for the public treasury. On a variety of fronts, the nation’s colleges and universities are re-examining themselves and their value to society.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Whitewashing fences and campus alcohol prohibition

The recent deaths of college students in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Virginia from consuming too much alcohol are paramount tragedies which we should all work to prevent. But if we draw the wrong lessons from these deaths, they will occur again and again.

July 11, 2007

African-American

A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research

They don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The shifting terrain of welfare reform: educational advocates for low-income students looking for solid ground

For hundreds of thousands of the nation’s poor adults, community colleges have long delivered their best chance for gaining sufficient education and training to land a job that could break their dependence on welfare.

July 11, 2007

Historically Black Bluefield State’s ironic situation: desperately seeking Black students and faculty – Bluefield State College, West Virginia

Bluefield, W. Va. When a historically Black university fails to sustain, say, a ten percent African American student population, People are bound to start talking. Well, they have.

July 11, 2007

Senate clears student aid, HBCU funding bill – historically Black colleges and universities

Six weeks into fiscal year 1998, Congress has finally completed action on legislation that will boost funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), TRIO, and many student-aid programs through next year.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Committed to diversity? Where’s the evidence? – Special Report – Cover Story

An often-expressed apprehension within the Black community is that traditionally White institutions were never really committed to integration, diversity, or affirmative action. The fear was that many of these colleges undertook halfhearted minority student recruitment and retention efforts and occasional Black faculty/staff appointments while waiting for relief from conservative courts, legislatures and voters.

July 11, 2007

Can a rift be avoided? Historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions are all vying for the same federal funds – includes related article on the US Dept. of Education’s proposed changes in the Title III – Cover Story

Historically Blak and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are All Vying for the Same Federal Funds.

July 11, 2007

College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

Preparing students of color for global opportunities – minority students – Forum – Column

Whenever I am asked how a campus should begin to internationalize, I recommend a short, inexpensive report titled Educating Americans for a World in Flux, published by the American Council on Education (ACE). This report focuses on the task of educating all U.S. students to be global citizens.

July 11, 2007