Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.
Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.
Subscribe
Students
Faculty & Staff
Leadership & Policy
Podcasts
Top 100
Advertise
Jobs
Shop
Search
Article
Podcast
Video
Awards/Honors
Community Colleges
Demographics
Faculty & Staff
Health
Institutions
HBCUs
Leadership & Policy
Military
On the Move
Opinion
Sports
Students
Enter search phrase
Search
Section: Institutions > HBCUs
HBCUs
Survey Says … Black Colleges Need To Complete National Surveys
When it comes to understanding historically Black colleges and universities, we don’t have good data.
August 20, 2008
HBCUs
Handwritten History Donated to Lincoln University
Lincoln University gained a glimpse into the life of one of its key founders with the donation of a series of pristine Civil War-era letters penned by Lt. Richard Baxter Foster.
August 18, 2008
HBCUs
Perspectives: Survey Says … Black Colleges Need To Complete National Surveys
When it comes to understanding historically Black colleges and universities, we don’t have good data.
August 18, 2008
HBCUs
Perspectives: Taking Full Advantage of Funding Opportunities
Many Black colleges have secured dollars for a variety of important initiatives, but one of the hurdles is just knowing which funding streams to tap.
August 13, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Newspaper: NCCU Operated Satellite Campus
North Carolina Central University officials are trying to decide what to do with about 50 students who attended a satellite campus at a megachurch near Atlanta run by a school trustee.
August 11, 2008
HBCUs
Students Accused of Plagiarism Expelled From Ship
Two students accused of plagiarism and violating the University of Virginia’s honor code were expelled from a global studies program. They left their ship in Greece while their counterparts continued on the summer voyage.
August 11, 2008
Leadership & Policy
Newspaper: NCCU Operated Satellite Campus
North Carolina Central University officials are trying to decide what to do with about 50 students who attended a satellite campus at a megachurch near Atlanta run by a school trustee.
August 10, 2008
HBCUs
Students Accused of Plagiarism Expelled from Ship
Two students accused of plagiarism and violating the University of Virginia’s honor code were expelled from a global studies program. They left their ship in Greece while their counterparts continued on the summer voyage.
August 10, 2008
Faculty & Staff
Journalism Educators Association Aims to Step Up Diversity Efforts
The incoming president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (AEJMC) says that she plans to use her post to rally for increased diversity within the 96-year-old nonprofit organization.
August 10, 2008
Latinx
Pell Grant One of Few Winners in 2009 Budget
Despite work on education spending bill, Congress unlikely to complete work until after general election.
August 6, 2008
Students
AKAs Celebrate 100 Years of Sisterhood and Service
The nation’s capital was a sea of pink and green as an estimated 20,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha converged upon Washington, D.C., in July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country’s largest and oldest Black sorority. Founded on the campus of Howard University in 1908, and boasting 200,000 members and 975 chapters worldwide, […]
August 6, 2008
Students
New Clark Atlanta President Brown Takes Helm
When Carlton Brown arrived at Clark Atlanta University last summer, the institution was clawing out of a $25 million deficit and its administration had a reputation for intimidating faculty and students.
August 3, 2008
Students
House Approves HEA Bill; Senate Vote Next
The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to renew the Higher Education Act and make changes in a variety of programs from Pell Grants and student loans to those for minority-serving institutions.
July 31, 2008
HBCUs
Study: Public HBCUs Experience Increasing Enrollment
Despite nagging financial problems, accreditation troubles and relatively low graduation rates, historically Black colleges continue to remain an integral part of the educational equation for African-Americans and are growing in popularity, according to a comprehensive new study by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
July 28, 2008
HBCUs
A Continuing Trend
Many of the issues that we covered in last year’s journalism edition leading up to the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention — the frenzy over the need for journalists to have multimedia skills, the steps media companies were taking to remain profitable and competitive, and whether newsrooms’ commitment to diversity would be abandoned in the process — have intensified one year later.
July 23, 2008
Students
Capturing a Different Picture
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute helps to train a new generation of minority newsroom professionals.
July 23, 2008
Students
Education Department Launches Effort to Simplify Student Aid Formula
Under Secretary of Education Sara Martinez Tucker calls for revamping federal aid formula at national summit.
July 17, 2008
HBCUs
Perspectives: No Threat of Changing Enrollments at HBCUs
HBCUs are responsible for more than a fifth of current bachelor’s degrees granted to Blacks. With such documented successes these schools are in no danger of ceasing to exist. However, the newest concern is that increases in White enrollments will cause HBCUs to lose their “cultural identity,” and their historical significance to the Black community.
July 9, 2008
Previous Page
Next Page
