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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
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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
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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
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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
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Leadership & Policy
Presidential Memoirs
A conversation with outgoing Johnson C. Smith University President Dorothy C. Yancy
June 25, 2008
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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
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Disabilties
Creating an Atmosphere of Acceptance
When it comes to learning disabilities, minority students are often misdiagnosed.
June 17, 2008
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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
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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
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