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Students
New Jersey Police Charge Two in Fatal College Shooting
Two men were charged Monday in the weekend shooting at an off-campus house party that left a Seton Hall University student dead and four other people wounded.
September 27, 2010
Nineteen-year-old Seton Hall student Jessica Moore, an honors student from Disputanta, Va., died from her injuries hours after shooting early Saturday.
African-American
Pioneering Black Physician Honored in New York City
Celebrated during his lifetime as an anti-slavery leader, Dr. James McCune Smith, the nation’s first professionally trained African-American doctor, fell into obscurity after his death in 1865.
September 26, 2010
James McCune Smith
Students
Black Caucus Foundation Scholarships Went to People Tied to Ga. Lawmaker
The controversy over Rep. Sanford Bishop’s decision to award scholarships to his relatives has expanded as four more students tied to the south Georgia Democrat have acknowledged receiving them as well.
September 26, 2010
Sanford Bishop
Students
Private College Associations Introduce Student Access Website
A project begun by two leading associations of non-profit private U.S. higher education institutions targets the national goal of re-establishing the U.S. as the world’s leader in college completion.
September 23, 2010
Dr. David L. Warren is president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Students
ACLU: GSU’s E-Mail Policy Violates Constitution
A First Amendment issue is brewing at Grambling State University in the wake of the president’s summer e-mail message to students, prohibiting political expression via e-mail.
September 23, 2010
Dr. Frank Pogue is president of Grambling State University.
Faculty & Staff
PhD Project Tackles Business School Deanship Diversity
After making an indelible impact on business faculty ranks, The PhD Project sets its sights on diversity among business school deans.
September 23, 2010
Najeeba Syeed-Miller
Leadership & Policy
Mississippi Universities Seek Restoration of Stimulus Funds
Anticipating the coming dearth of federal stimulus funding, Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds says Mississippi’s universities have shaved $91 million from operating expenses, but will still need more state money next fiscal year.
September 22, 2010
Hank Bounds
African-American
EEOC Accuses Calif. University of Discrimination
A federal agency that fights work place discrimination says a private Southern California university denied tenure to a Black professor due to her race and later fired her.
September 21, 2010
Leadership & Policy
University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone
Fifty-five years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, John Brandon and brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be celebrated as pioneers.
September 20, 2010
Leroy Frasier, John Lewis Brandon, and Ralph Frasier (left to right),
Students
College-educated Americans More Likely Experience Job Satisfaction, Lead Healthier Lives, Study Says
Delving into more than just the financial rewards, college graduates, in comparison with high school graduates, are less likely to smoke or be obese; vote and volunteer more; and have more job satisfaction, according to a newly released study by The College Board.
September 20, 2010
A College Board report has been released today titled Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society.
Students
Perspectives: A Little Bit of Knowledge (about BGLOs) is a Dangerous Thing
I am critical of Black Greek-letter organization undergrads but I believe there is also enough blame to go around. And Student Affairs and Greek Life personnel who advise BGLO members deserve their fair share of blame.
September 19, 2010
Gregory S. Parks
Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee Selects Purdue Administrator, Researcher as New President
Tuskegee University announced Friday the selection of Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, associate vice president for collaborative research and engagement at Purdue University, as its sixth president.
September 19, 2010
Gilbert Rochon
Students
Parents of Prairie View Hazing Victim Settle Suit Against Fraternity
The parents of the Prairie View A&M University student who died in a hazing incident last year have settled their wrongful death lawsuit against their son’s fraternity, court records show.
September 15, 2010
Marco McMillian is the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity executive director.
African-American
Coppin State Opens Campus-based Neighborhood Computer Center
Coppin State University is set to debut formally today its new efforts to help low-income residents in nearby neighborhoods modernize their digital communications skills with the opening of a neighborhood broadband technology skills training center.
September 15, 2010
Coppin State President Reginald Avery
African-American
National Science Board Report Calls for Equity, Excellence and Opportunity in STEM
The United States’ ability to be not just a global leader but even a competitive participant in technology will depend largely on a massive infusion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
September 15, 2010
Dr. Cora Marrett is acting director of the National Science Foundation and a member of the National Science Board.
African-American
Tennessee Judge Reverses Course, Embraces Fisk Plan To Sell Interest in Art Collection
Fisk University’s plan to sell half interest in its most valuable asset—a 101-piece collection of art and photographs—for $30 million to Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum won conditional approval from a Tennessee judge who has blocked the sale twice in recent years, most recently last month.
September 14, 2010
‘The Radiator Building—Night, New York’ by Georgia O’Keeffe is part of the Fisk University art collection.
African-American
HBCU National Meeting Stresses Competitiveness by Black Schools
Speakers at a national HBCU conference on Tuesday said the future of HBCUs hinges on winning contracts instead of grants, implementing ways to become more energy efficient, and making a concerted effort to retain and graduate incoming students who are increasingly ill-prepared for the rigors of college.
September 14, 2010
Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
African-American
Obama Administration Officials Praise, Encourage HBCUs at National Conference
Leaders of historically Black schools were encouraged to pursue research and development opportunities more aggressively for their institutions during opening sessions of the HBCU Week conference.
September 13, 2010
HBCU Presidents and Obama
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