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Clinton’s race initiative on tour: sports was focus of the latest national town hall meeting – includes related article on higher education

Sports provided the focus of President Bill Clinton’s second town hall meeting on race relations in America. Clinton and leading collegiate and professional sports figures participated in a lively meeting and discussion, which was held at the University of Houston on April 14, 1998. The televised forum was entitled, “Race & Sports; Running in Place?”

July 12, 2007

In sports, those making the off-the field decision remain overwhelmingly White – Coaches Cornered: The 1997 Racial Report Card

With so many Black athletes claiming center stage in the sports universe, one might be inclined to declare that athletics is the one slice of American life where equal opportunity abounds. Some might even say that sports represent a model of ethnic diversity that should be admired and emulated by all.

July 12, 2007

Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action

The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action

July 12, 2007

Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2 – includes related article – Cover Story

The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University’s undergraduate school in 1874, and completed his Ph.D. in physics there in 1876.

July 12, 2007

Washington UPDATE

ED Backs Continued Default-Rate Exemption for HBCUs

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Charting a Black research agenda – interview with H. Patrick Swygert, president of Howard University – Cover Story – Interview

President H. Patrick Swygert, 54, assumed the helm of the nation’s only historically Black Research I institution in 1995. Since his arrival at Howard University, he has been crafting a strategy to carry the institution into the twenty-first century on a more stable financial footing, from which it will be poised to lead the nation in shaping and implementing the academic and research agenda for African Americans in the next millennium.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Summer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York University

When Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.

July 11, 2007

HBCUs, HSIs at odds over Title III criteria – aid in doubt at Hispanic and Black-serving educational institutions

The Clinton adminstration is touting a new Hispanic Initiative that targets both students and colleges, and may leave some tough decisions for congressional leaders and educators of color.

July 11, 2007

Through these eyes – photographs of P.H. Polk – Illustration

From 1939 until his death in 1984, Prentice Herman Polk taught It photography at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and was the official Campus Photographer. In 1933, he became chair of the university’s photography department. Polk owned one of Macon County, Alabama’s few private photography Studios and became a renowned portrait photographer.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The word from Moses – educator Yolanda T. Moses – Interview – Cover Story

“WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT AN INSTITUTION BECOMES THEIR REALITY UNLESS THAT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD.”

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Schools of cool: jazz performance education providing a different kind of gig – Cover Story

Janelle Gill is confident that she has a future in jazz. The eighteen-year-old freshman pianist began jazz performance studies last semester at Howard University. Since then, she has played in the school’s big band and the small-group jazz ensembles.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The evolving HBCU niche – historically Black colleges and universities

In recent years, much has been written about the challenges confronting American higher education. There is a growing interest in applying standards of accountability, and many states have reduced financial support, as colleges and universities find themselves competing with prisons and health care for the public treasury. On a variety of fronts, the nation’s colleges and universities are re-examining themselves and their value to society.

July 11, 2007

African-American

A prescription for participation: diabetes study helping African Americans overcome fears of ethnic medical research

They don’t want to take pills. They’re unwilling to participate in randomized trials. They are reluctant to take a chance,” says Robert Ratner, M.D., head of the Medlantic Clinical Research Center in Washington, D.C., discussing why some people don’t want to participate in medical research. “There remains reluctance to participate in any medical study. Some of it is, `I want someone else to do it so I “know it’s safe, then I’ll do it’ — the guinea-pig phenomenon.”

July 11, 2007

Historically Black Bluefield State’s ironic situation: desperately seeking Black students and faculty – Bluefield State College, West Virginia

Bluefield, W. Va. When a historically Black university fails to sustain, say, a ten percent African American student population, People are bound to start talking. Well, they have.

July 11, 2007

Senate clears student aid, HBCU funding bill – historically Black colleges and universities

Six weeks into fiscal year 1998, Congress has finally completed action on legislation that will boost funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), TRIO, and many student-aid programs through next year.

July 11, 2007

Can a rift be avoided? Historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions are all vying for the same federal funds – includes related article on the US Dept. of Education’s proposed changes in the Title III – Cover Story

Historically Blak and Hispanic-Serving Institutions Are All Vying for the Same Federal Funds.

July 11, 2007

Preparing students of color for global opportunities – minority students – Forum – Column

Whenever I am asked how a campus should begin to internationalize, I recommend a short, inexpensive report titled Educating Americans for a World in Flux, published by the American Council on Education (ACE). This report focuses on the task of educating all U.S. students to be global citizens.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Virginia Tech spearheads HBCU computer consortium – Virginia Polytechnic Institute; historically black colleges and universities

Dr. Joyce Williams-Green knows from direct experience that using computers in the classroom can be daunting for both students and faculty.

July 11, 2007