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The Fisk Jubilee Singers — A Student’s Experience

In this week’s blog entry, I want to share the words of one of my wonderful graduate students. His name is Jameel Scott and he is in the masters program in higher education here at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Jameel is a graduate of Morehouse College. He plans on pursuing a […]

October 13, 2008

African-American

Summer Reading for the Teachers

A little variety to stretch the mind — gently.

August 6, 2008

Diverse Calendar

June 18-22 Association of American Colleges and Universities 8th Annual Greater Expectations Institute “Campus Leadership for Student Engagement, Inclusion and Achievement” Cliff Lodge & Spa Snowbird, Utah Web: www.aacu.org June 21-24Association of College and University Housing Officers — International 2008 ACUHO-I Annual Conference & Exposition Disney Coronado Springs Resort Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Web: www.acuho-i.org […]

May 28, 2008

Diverse Calendar

June 2-6 African-American Leadership Institute UCLA Anderson School of Management University of California, Los Angeles Web: www.anderson.ucla.edu/EEPaali.xml June 10-14 National Association of Black Accountants Inc. 37th Annual National Convention and Expo Hilton Hotel AtlantaAtlanta Web: www.nabainc.org June 11-15 2008 International Assessment and Retention Conference “Assessment Reconsidered: Improving Learning, Student Success and Transparency” West Klerland Resort […]

May 14, 2008

Diverse Calendar

June 2-6 African-American Leadership Institute UCLA Anderson School of Management University of California, Los Angeles Web:www.anderson.ucla.eduEEPaali.xml June 21-24Association of College and University Housing Officers-International 2008 ACUHO-I Annual Conference & Exposition Disney Coronado Springs Resort Lake Buena Vista, Fla. www.acuho-i.org June 26-27 Diverse: Issues in Higher Education4th Annual John Hope Franklin Symposium and Awards Gala Duke […]

April 30, 2008

Diverse Calendar

April 29-May 1 Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 8th International Conference Universidad de Guadalajara Guadalajara, Mexico www.hacu.net April 30-May 3The National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals 21st Annual Conference Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center www.nagap.org May 7-10 National Rural Health Association 31st Annual NRHA Rural Health Conference Sheraton New Orleans Hotel New […]

April 16, 2008

Now that DNA evidence conclusively proves the third U.S. president fathered the child of a slave, scholars weigh in on what it means for the discipline of American History

Now that DNA evidence conclusively proves the third U.S. president fathered the child of a slave, scholars weigh in on what it means for the discipline of American History

July 14, 2007

BI What’s New

Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation is hosting an exhibit titled, “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.”

July 14, 2007

The new faces of college

Last year marked York College’s thirtieth anniversary. This spring, the college, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, passed yet another milestone. For the first time, it graduated more than 1,000 students, about 75 percent of whom were people of color.

July 12, 2007

Race board finds consensus elusive on public schools – President’s Advisory Board on Race

WASHINGTON The President’s Advisory Board on Race recently found that no national discussion on race in public schools is complete without conservatives invoking the controversial issue of education vouchers for poor children.

July 11, 2007

Higher education groups announce campaign to support race initiative

Miami Two leading national higher education organizations have announced a year-long campaign to encourage the nation’s colleges and universities to launch activities in support of U.S. President Bill Clinton’s national dialogue on race relations.

July 11, 2007

Ford Fellows Fund established to increase minority participation in Ph.D. program

At the 1993 annual conference of minority recipients of the Ford Foundation’s Fellowship Fund for doctoral candidates and graduates, Dr. Bai Akridge asked this question of the participants: “If we’ve agreed that this program is so important to us, why aren’t we doing something to help ourselves, too?”

July 10, 2007

As discussion gets started, legislators seek elimination of government’s affirmative action policies

As President Bill Clinton was defending the use of affirmative action in college admissions, members of Congress rolled out a plan to abolish such preferences in the awarding of government funds.

July 10, 2007

Wanted: more black graduate students

In the middle of my doctoral studies, I encountered an elderly relative who expressed some chagrin that I was “still in school.” She noted that she had sent me a few dollars when I earned my undergraduate degree and wondered whether her investment was wasted.

June 19, 2007

African-American

The wisdom of our elders: continuing the legacy

WASHINGTON Caring for the young; breaking the barriers that divide African Americans along class, age and gender lines; and taking responsibility for the future were the themes of February’s Black Issues in Higher Education videoconference, which was: designed as a celebration of African American history.

June 16, 2007

African-American

Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history

Black history may have seemed “lost, stolen or strayed” at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.

June 15, 2007

Fisk Seeks Court’s Permission to Sell Prized Paintings

Lawyers for Fisk University and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum early this month were working to hammer out an agreement…

February 21, 2007

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

November 14, 2006