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Section: Institutions > HBCUs
Latinx
Proposal Seeks to Improve America’s Image Abroad
Legislation would lessen financial barriers that prevent low-income, minority students from participating in foreign exchange programs.
July 9, 2008
Latinx
Congressional Proposal Seeks to Increase Study Abroad Participation
Legislation would lessen financial barriers that prevent low-income, minority students from participating in foreign exchange programs.
July 6, 2008
HBCUs
Music to Our Ears
“Minority” and “orchestra musicians” are not words you see often in the same sentence, much less spoken, but the Sphinx Organization is becoming a major player in changing the face of classical music.
June 25, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Presidential Memoirs
A conversation with outgoing Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy C. Yancy
June 25, 2008
HBCUs
Promoting International Interest
A commitment to preparation combined with a long-serving adviser propelled one HBCU to become the all-time leader in producing Black Fulbright students.
June 25, 2008
Disabilties
Creating an Atmosphere of Acceptance
When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.
June 17, 2008
African-American
Black Colleges Still Lacking Ph.D. African-American Studies Program
As African-American studies disciplinarians celebrate the expansion and 20-year anniversary of African American doctoral studies this year, some are wondering when there will be a similar development at historically Black colleges and universities.
June 17, 2008
HBCUs
Andrew Carnegie and Race
A financial supporter of Tuskegee Institute and Hampton University, Andrew Carnegie believed deeply in the cause of Negro education and saw slavery as blight on the country’s “triumphant democracy,” but he failed to address the terrorist acts visited upon Blacks in the South of lynching, sharecropping and Jim Crow laws. However, author David Nasaw also provides the complexities of Carnegie’s thinking on race and race relations in the United States.
June 16, 2008
Leadership & Policy
It’s All About Degrees Conferred
College rankings have always been a bit controversial, but over the last year debates over such lists, particularly U.S. News’ rankings, have really heated up.
June 11, 2008
HBCUs
Feds Fund Three Types of Minority-serving Institutions
Under new education department programs, money for eligible colleges and universities is up for grabs.
June 11, 2008
Disabilties
‘Creating an Atmosphere Of Acceptance’
When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.
June 11, 2008
Students
The Lawyer From Lafayette
Xavier University of Louisiana president, Dr. Norman Francis, celebrates 40 years at the helm of one of the nation’s top HBCUs.
June 11, 2008
HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY has received a $3.1 MILLION gift from the Monfort Family Foundation to provide support for Monfort scholars and professors and the Monfort Lecture Series, among other things. The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a $30,000 grant as part of the MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award. The college was chosen […]
June 11, 2008
HBCUs
Labor dispute prompts Bill Clinton to cancel UCLA commencement speech
Bill Clinton canceled a commencement speech at the University of California, Los Angeles, because of a lingering labor dispute.
June 10, 2008
HBCUs
Feds Fund Three Types of MSIs
Money for Predominantly Black-serving, non-tribal American Indian-serving and Asian-serving institutions is up for grabs.
June 8, 2008
HBCUs
Perspectives: Graduates, Stand Ready to Become Internal Corporate Champions for Your Alma Mater
As they head to corporate America, graduating seniors should be asked about eventually securing from their employers corporate support for their alma mater, as corporate-sector sponsorship is critical to the sustainability of historically Black colleges and universities in the 21st century.
June 5, 2008
HBCUs
Charting a New Course
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore becomes the first HBCU to receive a PGA Professional Golf Management Program.
May 28, 2008
HBCUs
Grants & Gifts
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD, has received $1 MILLION from the CSU system, which received funds from the Bernard Osher Foundation to be distributed. The monies will go to support a scholarship endowment fund at CSU Bakersfield. Twelve faculty members at OHIO UNIVERSITY have been awarded a $124,000 grant by the Ohio University Research Committee and […]
May 28, 2008
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