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Section: Demographics > African-American
Students
UNCF Study Shows HBCUs Chosen for Small Faculty-Student Ratio, Sense of Belonging
Study authors report that attending HBCUs allows students to “benefit from positive cultural experiences around being Black that they may not have received during their formal elementary and secondary education experiences.”
April 18, 2011
Leadership & Policy
University of the West Indies Team Triumphs at HBCU Business Plan Competition
More than 300 students from 21 historically or predominantly Black colleges competed, presenting business proposals that ranged from construction and land surveying improvements to the mass production of Jamaican ginger.
April 17, 2011
Faculty & Staff
Cornell University Provost Blasted for Plan to Move Africana Center
Controversial plan to embed Africana Studies and Research Center in College of Arts and Sciences rankles students, faculty at Cornell University.
April 17, 2011
African-American
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley Angers Black Legislators over Medical School Board Removal
Earlier this month, the governor replaced Dr. Paula Orr, a Black woman, with dentist Harold Jablon of Columbia, who is White, on the Medical University of South Carolina board.
April 14, 2011
Sports
Candid Race Talk Launches College Sports Symposium
Expert panelists detailed how lucrative college sports competition have led many to ask whether athletes in men’s basketball and football programs are exploited while others profit immeasurably.
April 13, 2011
African-American
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Chronicles His Life in New Book
In his book A Reason to Believe, the Massachusetts Democrat tells his version of the American rags to riches story, chronicling what he dubs his “improbable” rise from a broken home and poverty on Chicago’s South Side to the upper echelons of American politics.
April 12, 2011
African-American
NAACP, Newt Gingrich Urge Prison Reform
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a report on Thursday that said between 1987 and 2007, state prison spending grew at six times the rate of higher education spending.
April 10, 2011
Students
FAMU Board Approves President’s Restructuring Plan
A total of 89 jobs will be lost directly related to the plan, while another 109 employees will be laid off on June 30 because they were funded by the federal stimulus program.
April 7, 2011
Students
Oklahoma’s GOP Lawmakers Push to Abolish Affirmative Action
A Republican-backed plan to wipe out any affirmative action programs in Oklahoma appears headed for approval by the Legislature, prompting a bitter response from some minority lawmakers that it is merely a political ploy to play on racial fears.
April 6, 2011
Sports
CIAA Tournament Draws Record Crowd to Charlotte
Attendance for official CIAA functions topped 190,000 and provided an economic impact of $44.3 million, a 19 percent increase from last year.
April 5, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Debate Over Relevance of HBCUs Opens 37th NAFEO Conference
The president of Morgan State University uses NAFEO luncheon discussion to announce the school has won a contract to help manage research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, signaling how one historically Black university competes at the highest levels in science.
April 5, 2011
African-American
Manning Marable Remembered as Public Intellectual and Activist
At the time of his death, Marable held the M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professorship of African American Studies at Columbia University.
April 4, 2011
African-American
HBCUs Must Embrace Online Education
Black college leaders recognize the importance of distance learning but remain hesitant to take the online leap, writes online education expert.
April 3, 2011
African-American
Malcolm X Scholar Manning Marable Dies at 60
Dr. Manning Marable, an influential historian whose forthcoming Malcolm X biography could revise perceptions of the slain civil rights leader, died just days before the book described as his life’s work was to be released.
April 3, 2011
African-American
Teen Girls Discover Digital Technology as ‘COMPUGIRLS’
Dr. Kimberly Scott, an associate professor in women and gender studies at Arizona State University, the digital divide is not just about “who has access to computers, but what happens during that access.”
March 31, 2011
Leadership & Policy
Southern University’s Chancellor Candidates Narrowed Down
The top 10 applicants for the chancellor’s job at Southern University – Baton Rouge include Philander Smith College’s “hip-hop prez” and a former LSU administrator.
March 30, 2011
Students
Criminal Justice Think Tank Exits Medgar Evers Campus
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office will now partner with Medgar Evers on a Community Justice Program for formerly incarcerated students that will involve professors and students from the college’s departments of social work and education and include student internships in the DA’s office.
March 30, 2011
African-American
University of Pennsylvania Program Seeks To Boost Enrollment of Black Men In Ph.D. Programs
The Grad Prep Academy is helping create a fraternal network of Black education researchers and leaders.
March 29, 2011
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