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Events
EventsJanuaryJan.Ā 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International ConferenceāAdvancing Women in Higher EducationāNew OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th National African American Student Leadership ConferenceāNew Dimensions of African American [ā¦]
January 5, 2000
Students
Events
DecemberDec. 27-30, 1999Modern Languages Association115th Annual ConventionChicagoPhone:Ā (212) 475-9972E-mail: mkraus@mla.orgWeb: www.mla.orgĀ JanuaryJan.Ā 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International ConferenceāAdvancing Women in Higher EducationāNew OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
African-American
BI News Briefs
Miss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. ā In a ruling praised by education partisans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a federal judge will allow a four-year college program to begin accepting students as early as next summer, if funding allows. Eight months after blocking college expansion plans on the Gulf Coast, [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
Students
Preparing to Cross the River
Preparing to Cross the River When I was growing up in Falmouth, Ky., I can remember my grandmother singing a song that put me to sleep and awakened me. The title of this song is āShall We Gather At the River.ā The final chorus still lingers in my mind: Ā āShall we gather at the river, [ā¦]
December 22, 1999
African-American
The Problem With Henry Louis Gatesā āAfrican Worldā
The Problem With Henry Louis Gatesā āAfrican WorldāThe beautiful African coastline in Ghana is studded with the haunted vestiges of slave fortresses built by European nations over a period of 400 years. It is not unlike the history of the European Slave Trade in other parts of West Africa, from Mauritania to Angola, where more [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
Students
Inappropriate Monikers
Inappropriate MonikersAs minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubiousĀ distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legaciesBy Paul MuschickCHAPEL HILL, N.C. ā Kristi Booker thought her fellow students didnāt know what they were talking about when they told her Saunders Hall here at the University of North Carolinaās [ā¦]
November 24, 1999
African-American
Testing Your Diversity Knowledge
Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative ActionĀ Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
African-American
BI News Briefs
Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student UnionJACKSONVILLE, Fla. ā Black students at the University of North Florida rallied for the preservation of the African American Student Union after a student government agency decided the organization was unconstitutional.The decision last month to dissolve the African American Student Union was made by a [ā¦]
November 10, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Professional Appointments
PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr.Ā has been named interim president of the City University of New Yorkās City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned [ā¦]
October 27, 1999
Faculty & Staff
Learning From Wilt And Milt
Learning From Wilt And MiltI was among those stunned earlier this month at the news that basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain and jazz legend Milt Jackson had died within days of each other. Chamberlainās giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoringĀ were [ā¦]
October 27, 1999
African-American
New Views on Malcolm X
New Views on Malcolm XFrom a 1941 letter to friend Zelma Holman in Michigan, written from Boston by 16-year-old Malcolm āDearest Zel,Sorry I havenāt gotten around to writing you sooner but I have been very busy. You know how we traveling men are. How is everything in Jackson. Bostonās fine. The place is really jumpinā [ā¦]
October 13, 1999
African-American
Rethinking Malcolm X
Rethinking Malcolm XATLANTA ā Early writings by Malcolm X went on public display for the first time at Emory University here last month, offering a new glimpse of the fiery orator who advocated Black nationalism and raised government suspicion.Ā The papers, which could alter Americansā perceptions of Malcolm X, are the only known collection of [ā¦]
October 13, 1999
African-American
Raising the Bar for Middle-Class Blacks
Raising the Bar for Middle-Class BlacksNext month, Jenna Bond-Louden will board a plane for North Carolina where she and other college seniors will spend all day learning to write a college essay that will wow admissions officers. Her parents have already shelled out hundreds of dollars for the Baltimore senior to take SAT prep classes.There [ā¦]
October 13, 1999
African-American
Professional Appointment
ACADEMICLisa R. Elliott has been named communications coordinator for Cleveland State Universityās office of minority affairs and community relations. Previously, she managed a marketing communications firm, Aspire Marketing. Elliot holds a bachelorās in speech from Northwestern University.Dr. Allen J. Green has been named dean of studies and student life at Sarah Lawrence College. He comes [ā¦]
September 29, 1999
African-American
Africa:Through Skip Gatesā Eyes
Africa:Through Skip Gatesā EyesIn his poem āHeritage,ā Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen once asked, āWhat is Africa to me?ā Harvard Universityās Dr. Henry Louis āSkipā Gates Jr. struggles with the very same question in a PBS documentary that will air next month over the course of three nights. Throughout the six-part Wonders of the African [ā¦]
September 29, 1999
African-American
Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase
Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio ā The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. [ā¦]
September 29, 1999
African-American
Demanding Quality Leadership
Demanding Quality LeadershipIt is commonly said that African Americans suffer from a lack of leadership. Yet, whenever someone begins to wield significant power, too often the campaign to unseat him or her is not far behind.Certainly, no one should be allowed to set an agenda or lead without censure. But rather than tearing folks down [ā¦]
September 29, 1999
Students
Private Party
Private PartyPlagued by sexually-lewd behavior and violence, one of the largest Black fraternity gatherings in the country is no longer a public event and some say that while itās unfortunate, it may be the wave of the futurePhiladelphia ā At first, it seemed that the 1999 Philadelphia Greek Picnic had all of the support that [ā¦]
September 15, 1999
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