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Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

July 10, 2007

African-American

Holding on to African American history

For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.

July 10, 2007

HBCUs getting up to speed on the information highway – historically Black colleges and universities – Cover Story

When Emma Bradford Perry arrived at Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge from Harvard four years ago to head up that school’s library, the first thing she did close the card catalog.

July 10, 2007

Louisiana HBCU Loses Several Football Players Because of Academic Ineligibility

BATON ROUGE La. Nine Southern University football players including several starters will not be with the program this fall, coach Pete Richardson said.

July 9, 2007

Surveying the battleground in the fight for access – equal opportunity in education cases

Forty-three years have passed since the Supreme Court issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated the nation’s public schools, yet America’s war over equal educational opportunities continues to rage. And the most heated battles in recent years have centered around access to education at the postsecondary level.

July 7, 2007

An open letter – Black colleges

This is excerpted from an open letter sent by Alvin Chambliss Jr., Esquire, of Texas Southern University, to Dr. Elias Blake Jr., executive director, Benjamin E. Mays Institute, concerning historically Black colleges and universities.

July 7, 2007

Smaller Texas institutions expect increased minority presence as a result of Hopwood decision

Austin, Texas While the University of Texas and Texas A&M University have experienced a decline in minority applicants because of the Hopwood ruling, officials at Stephen F. Austin State University in eastern Texas anticipate an increase in minority enrollment this fall.

July 7, 2007

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 6, 2007

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

July 6, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

July 5, 2007

Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn

Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

July 5, 2007

IU Supercomputer No Longer Fastest Among College Computers

BLOOMINGTON Ind. Indiana University’s supercomputer is no longer the fastest college-owned supercomputer

July 5, 2007

University of North Dakota defenseman excited about NHL deal

FARGO N.D. Brian Lee says it was not an easy decision to sign with the NHL instead of returning to play hockey at the University of North Dakota. But he’s happy with his choice.

July 4, 2007

New Mexico Highlands University break-in prompts identity theft concern

LAS VEGAS N.M. New Mexico Highlands University has alerted 420 students that they could be the targets of identity theft after a break-in at a building on campus.

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The physician, the professor and the politico – candidates for the presidency of Spelman College – Cover Story

ATLANTA For Spelman College student Toria Davis, just the thought of getting a new campus president with ties to the White House speaks volumes about the search to replace Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole. “It’s an honor just to think someone who’s so important would be interested in coming to Spelman,” said Davis after learning that […]

July 4, 2007

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African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

July 4, 2007