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HBCUs in America’s high-tech future – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

By the year 2010, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), this country will need to produce 11,000 Ph.D.s in engineering and science annually. Concurrently, the annual Ph.D. shortfall could be about 9,600 by the year 2000.

July 14, 2007

Filling technology’s massive talent gap

Technology partnership brings opportunities to students at Virginia HBCUs

July 14, 2007

Nike, HBCUs strike deal – Historically Black Colleges and Universities

WASHINGTON The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and sporting goods giant Nike announced last month, that they have signed a historic, three-year agreement that will not only provide footwear and apparel for conference teams, but also will include summer internships for students at Nike headquarters.

July 14, 2007

1998 Ad

ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.

July 14, 2007

Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.

July 14, 2007

Washington Update

HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress

July 14, 2007

A United Way

Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

The Donation Station

Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges

July 14, 2007

Chugging Toward Recovery

CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities

July 14, 2007

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