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Section: Institutions > HBCUs

Faculty & Staff

Faculty focus on technology

If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.

July 14, 2007

How did they do that?

Forthcoming Mellon Foundation study documents activities that lead to African American success on standardized tests

July 14, 2007

Virginia’s experience – Virginia’s Governor L. Douglas Wilder’s push for accessible education for Black students

Despite what some viewed as the `ideal’ Black leadership team, education gains were limited during Wilder administration

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities

SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’

July 14, 2007

HBCUs get wired for fall – historically Black colleges and universities

Summer is the season many colleges and universities schedule construction and renovation projects on their campuses because it is when such activity is least disruptive for faculty, administrators, and students.

July 13, 2007

Confidence in the face of controversy – Marie V. McDemmond – Cover Story – Interview

The view of Norfolk State University’s 120-acre campus, as seen from the ceiling-to-floor window in the office of the president, is deceptive. In the foreground, sit the neatly, manicured lawn and sparkling aquamarine pool of the school’s red-brick presidential residence. The scene reveals nothing to suggest this is an institution struggling to recover from a multimillion-dollar fiscal deficit.

July 13, 2007

New ‘Fordice’ report may benefit Mississippi HBCUs – Ayers v. Fordice, historically Black colleges and universities

Jackson, Miss. The new report is 400 pages and 100,000 words — one of the bulkiest in memory — and is touted as a reaffirmation of the importance of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 13, 2007

Newsroom power shortage – minorities in journalism

Are students of color getting the inside scoop on what it takes to become news editors and producers?

July 13, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Diversifying the fourth estate – journalism schools

Will journalism schools continue to pursue students of color now that the American Society of Newspaper Editors has scaled back its commitment to diversity?

July 13, 2007

Charting journalism degrees

The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.

July 13, 2007

Four Black Colleges Receive $400 Million in Federal Katrina Recovery Loans

NEW ORLEANS Four historically black colleges three in New Orleans and one in Mississippi are getting almost $400 million in ultra-low-interest federal loans to recover from Hurricane Katrina’s destruction.

July 12, 2007

The top 100: graduate and professional schools – part two; includes listing of postsecondary institutes that graduate the most minority students

This is the second half of Black Issues In Higher Education’s annual “Top 100” rankings of postsecondary institutions that graduate the most minority students. Part I ranked schools that grant baccalaureate degrees (see July 9, 1998 edition). This edition ranks graduate and professional schools.

July 12, 2007

Judge to Mississippi: monitor minority freshman enrollment

JACKSON, Miss. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers Jr. has directed the state College Board to monitor decreasing freshman enrollment at Mississippi’s historically Black institutions [HBCUs). In the past couple of years, there has been a noticeable decrease in freshmen at Jackson State. Alcorn State, and Mississippi Valley State universities, figures show. And while overall Black enrollment is up 7.3 percent at the state’s eight universities since Biggers ordered new admission standards in 1995, the freshman enrollment to decrease.

July 12, 2007

The top 100: interpreting the data – students of color

For the seventh consecutive year, the publishers of Black Issues have asked me to to produce lists of the institutions that confer the largest number of degrees to students of color in the United States. These simple lists are presented with the objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.

July 12, 2007

The surging degree wave

As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities

More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.

July 12, 2007

NAFEO signs new technology partner – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education

WASHINGTON, D.C. In a development that is expected to bring the latest and most advanced information technology to the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), an Atlanta-based technology company and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) have formed an alliance to make it easier for the schools to acquire technology.

July 12, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills

Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?

July 12, 2007