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Events
EventsFEBRUARYFeb. 13-17, 2000National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)25th Annual ConventionWashington, D.C.Contact: Wilma RoscoePhone: (301) 650-2440Web: www.nafeo.orgFeb. 16-20, 2000Association for Educational Communications and Technology“Creating Pathways to Learning: Educational Communications for the 21st Century”Long Beach, Calif.Contact: Lois FreelandPhone: (202) 347-7834E-mail: loisf@aect.orgWeb: www.aect.orgFeb. 21-26, 2000National Association of African American StudiesHoustonContact: Dr. Lemuel Berry Jr.Phone: (606) […]
February 16, 2000
Students
African American Student Programs vs. Diversity
African American Student Programs vs. Diversity As more student groups scramble to get a share of the diversity pie, is the African American slice shrinking?A $46,000 annual budget may seem reasonable in these economic times for a campus organization of 1,200 students. But when that student group happens to be African American and other minority groups […]
February 2, 2000
African-American
Toiling Along King’s High Way
Toiling Along King’s High Way Earlier this week, campuses across the country joined the rest of the nation in observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This is the first year  since the federal holiday was launched in 1986 in which all 50 states have  recognized it. The last state, New Hampshire, came into the fold […]
January 19, 2000
Students
As Different as Day and Night
As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]
January 5, 2000
Faculty & Staff
BI News Briefs
Hampton Coach’s Civil Rights Lawsuit Thrown OutLUBBOCK, Texas — A judge has dismissed a college basketball coach’s civil rights lawsuit, ruling she, her husband and an assistant failed to establish that racial bias was a factor in their 1998 arrests. Hampton University women’s coach Patricia Bibbs and the others sued the city, several police officers […]
January 5, 2000
Students
Events
EventsJanuaryJan.  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 Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th National African American Student Leadership Conference“New Dimensions of African American […]
January 5, 2000
Students
Events
DecemberDec. 27-30, 1999Modern Languages Association115th Annual ConventionChicagoPhone:  (212) 475-9972E-mail: mkraus@mla.orgWeb: www.mla.org JanuaryJan.  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 Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New 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 […]
December 22, 1999
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African-American
BI News Briefs
Miss. HBCU Has New Competition for Students, Funds JACKSON, Miss. — 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, […]
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 “Shall We Gather At the River.” The final chorus still lingers in my mind:  “Shall we gather at the river, […]
December 22, 1999
African-American
The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’
The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’The 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 […]
November 24, 1999
Students
Inappropriate Monikers
Inappropriate MonikersAs minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubious  distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legaciesBy Paul MuschickCHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kristi Booker thought her fellow students didn’t know what they were talking about when they told her Saunders Hall here at the University of North Carolina’s […]
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 Action  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 […]
November 10, 1999
African-American
BI News Briefs
Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student UnionJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — 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 […]
November 10, 1999
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Faculty & Staff
Professional Appointments
PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr.  has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s 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 […]
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. Chamberlain’s giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoring  were […]
October 27, 1999
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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 —Dearest Zel,Sorry I haven’t gotten around to writing you sooner but I have been very busy. You know how we traveling men are. How is everything in Jackson. Boston’s fine. The place is really jumpin’ […]
October 13, 1999
African-American
Rethinking Malcolm X
Rethinking Malcolm XATLANTA — 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.  The papers, which could alter Americans’ perceptions of Malcolm X, are the only known collection of […]
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 […]
October 13, 1999
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