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Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
Aiming High
Aiming High”Providing Students the Tools to Excel” is the title of one of our feature stories, but it could be the title of both features, which detail programs that are preparing African American students for college. The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) prepares students to take on math, science and engineering in hopes that […]
July 3, 2002
Leadership & Policy
Engaging in Academic Racial Profiling
Engaging in Academic Racial ProfilingSUNY Trustee Candace de Russy is quoted in Newsday (Feb. 4, 2002) as stating, “… most Black studies departments are flabby, feel-good programs that carry anti-American bias and do little to advance hard knowledge.” And she further asserts, “Black studies departments became therapeutic in nature, and the goal became consciousness raising […]
June 5, 2002
African-American
Keeping Crow Alive
Keeping Crow AliveA Ferris State University museum aims to use the pain of racist and offensive material to educate and foster racial healing“There is still a debate about whether Black people should use this material in any way other than to destroy it, or whether they don’t belong in a museum or being resold by Black […]
June 5, 2002
Students
Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface Incident
Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface IncidentSYRACUSE, N.Y.Syracuse University has placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after one of its members went to a campus bar wearing blackface as part of a costume. The action followed a sit-in by about 65 students at the school’s administration building. They made 12 demands of Chancellor […]
June 5, 2002
African-American
Dr. Cornel West, in His Own Words
Dr. Cornel West, in His Own WordsBefore giving the keynote address at the conference “The State of the African American Professoriate,” held at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., Dr. Cornel West spoke with reporters, primarily about the circumstances surrounding his much-publicized departure from Harvard University.A lot of people may feel, given your recent experience at […]
May 22, 2002
African-American
The State of the African American Professoriate
The State of the African American ProfessoriateCornel West says Black intellectuals have unique role to play in the academy    Mahwah, N.J.When Dr. Cornel West stepped up to the microphone recently at Ramapo College of New Jersey in his trademark three-piece black suit, the excitement in the air was electric. West had announced just six days […]
May 22, 2002
African-American
A Second Calling
A Second CallingDr. Johnnetta Cole to lead all-female Bennett CollegeBy Allison ForemanGREENSBORO, N.C.Troubled Bennett College received some new hope last month when it named Dr. Johnnetta Cole as its new president. Cole, best known for her 10 years as president of Spelman College, will step into her new post July 15. She will replace Interim […]
May 22, 2002
African-American
Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Kenneth Goings has been named chairman of the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. Goings earned a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University and master’s and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart has been named director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in […]
May 8, 2002
African-American
The Afro-Mestizo Connection
The Afro-Mestizo ConnectionScholars team up to study Southern Mexico’s African rootsAcapulco has been billed as “the resort that never sleeps.” It’s the playground of the wealthy, home to the glittering “Golden Zone” shopping district, nightclubs and restaurants too numerous to count — and, just outside the city limits, a group of 98 percent Black towns […]
May 8, 2002
Faculty & Staff
Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa
Translating the African Past: The Islamic Heritage of Sub-Saharan AfricaOn a recent trip to the West African nation of Mali, Dr. John O. Hunwick encountered in Timbuktu signs of its legacy being resurrected in the form of new libraries. To this scholar of African history and frequent visitor to the dusty, desert city near the […]
May 8, 2002
African-American
Leaving for Princeton, West Says Too Much Made Of His Dispute With Harvard President
Leaving for Princeton, West Says Too Much Made Of His Dispute With Harvard PresidentMAHWAH, N.J.Harvard scholar Dr. Cornel West says the university’s president was largely responsible for his move to Princeton but that too much has been made of their dispute. After giving a lecture late last month at Ramapo College’s conference “State of the […]
May 8, 2002
African-American
Letters
Dear Editor: Thank you for your March 28th insightful and inspirational article on the unheralded contributions of Black mothers and historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities to this nation. As of Jan. 1, 2002, I became the President and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), which is the […]
May 8, 2002
African-American
The Academy’s New Cast — Bravo! Encore Please!
The Academy’s New Cast — Bravo! Encore Please!America’s preoccupation with the “right look” has prompted myriad entertainers to sculpt their bodies as they seek a measure of success. Body sculpting, both a mental and physical exercise, tends to yield optimal physical results to those individuals who demonstrate the requisite mental attitude and discipline to transform […]
April 24, 2002
African-American
Dear BI Career Consultants
Dear BI Career Consultants: As participation in higher education becomes more global and multicultural, how can African American students/faculty maintain their identity, or do they need to?Creating and maintaining a positive cultural identity is essential to the success of African American students and professionals in higher education. Too often African Americans allow our identity to […]
April 24, 2002
Students
Ku Klux Klan Mural to Remain Hanging In Indiana Classroom
Ku Klux Klan Mural to Remain Hanging In Indiana ClassroomBLOOMINGTON, Ind.A mural from the 1930s that includes images of the Ku Klux Klan will remain hanging in an Indiana University classroom, despite objections from the university’s Black Student Union (see Black Issues, March. 28). Chancellor Sharon Stephens Brehm announced the mural’s fate late last month, […]
April 24, 2002
Students
Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony Criticized
Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony CriticizedEast Lansing, Mich.Critics are taking aim at a new, optional Michigan State University event that will honor Black graduating seniors next month, saying it is unfair and promoting separatism. In one of several letters sent to the MSU student newspaper, Michael Cykowski, a senior computer science major, wrote: “What would […]
April 24, 2002
African-American
Letters
Dear Editor:I read with great interest the March 29 article on the sister presidents of Bennett and Spelman in Black Issues In Higher Education. I was indeed surprised to see that the writer did not refer to the first woman president of Bennett College, Dr. Willa B. Player. Dr. Player served Bennett during the mid-50s […]
April 24, 2002
African-American
Letters
Dear Editor:We at Eastern Washington University, just 30 miles from the north Idaho border, are having a different experience than that described in Kendra Hamilton’s article “Race in the College Classroom” in your March 14 issue.Our courses in African American studies are filled to overflowing with 100-plus students in most classes. We have added additional […]
April 24, 2002
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