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Video Football Gaming

A video game soon to hit stores will offer what has yet to be seen: the Black college footballwatching experience.

October 2, 2007

Oklahoma University student volunteers for Iraq duty

NORMAN Okla. University of Oklahoma student Jeff Gray knew he had a choice to make when he heard last month that his National Guard brigade had been called up for duty in Iraq.

October 1, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Officials at North Carolina A&T, NCCU mull future of series after brawl

GREENSBORO N.C. Officials at North Carolina A&T and North Carolina Central are considering the future of their football series after the latest meeting ended in a post-game brawl that police broke up with pepper spray.

September 24, 2007

Chowan to join CIAA football conference in 2008

MURFREESBORO N.C. Chowan will join the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association as a football-only member beginning next season, school and league officials said Monday.

September 24, 2007

K-12 Improvement Center of UNCF Summit

While a college education is vital to achieve great lengths in the workplace and in life, the quality of time spent in the classroom years before determines whether a person will excel in higher education.

September 23, 2007

N.C. Central, A&T players involved in post-game fight

GREENSBORO N.C. Moments after North Carolina Central claimed victory over rival North Carolina A&T, the Eagle players decided on a celebration that would lead to a bench-clearing, helmet-swinging brawl.

September 22, 2007

Missouri State University objects to restrictions on Ashcroft speech

SPRINGFIELD Mo. The only authorized taped copy of a speech given by former Attorney General John Ashcroft has been returned after Missouri State University officials objected to restrictions placed on who could listen to it.

September 22, 2007

Marshall University cracks down on illegal downloads

CHARLESTON W.Va. Illegal music downloading will no longer be tolerated at Marshall University after the recording industry sued two students.

September 22, 2007

For HBCU Students, Jena Is The Civil Rights Movement of Their Generation

JENA, La. North Carolina Central University law student Quinn Byars had heard all the talk about being part of history for making the trek to Jena, La., with thousands of other protestors Thursday. But college students like Byars believe they’ve made a much bigger statement to the world.

September 20, 2007

Mississippi HBCUs have spent a third of $503M in Miss. college desegregation funds

OXFORD Miss. Mississippi’s three historically black universities have spent about $145 million of money allocated from settlement of a college desegregation case.

September 19, 2007

University of Kansas investigating unauthorized mailing of records

TOPEKA Kan. Records discarded at the University of Kansas were mailed anonymously to three newspapers, prompting a campus investigation Wednesday. It was the second report in two months of such a breach of students’ privacy.

September 19, 2007

Are Historically Black Colleges Worth It?

Some scholars suggest that the “unique educational services” once provided by HBCUs to Black students have now disappeared.

September 19, 2007

Students from HBCUs, other schools gear up for march in support of Jena Six

JENA La. The streets around this tiny town’s courthouse began filling with protesters and reporters Wednesday, a day ahead of a planned march in support of six black teenagers jailed in the December beating of a white classmate.

September 18, 2007

Princeton University pleased students are making fewer ‘A’s’

PRINCETON N.J. Students at Princeton University, often recognized as the top undergraduate university in the country, are not getting as many “A’s” as they used to.

September 18, 2007

Student arrested, Tasered at Kerry forum in Florida

A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.

September 17, 2007

Morgan Stanley Partners with HBCUs to Train Talent

Two business school instructors at Morehouse College and a third instructor at Howard University are the first to participate in a partnership between HBCUs and New York-based investment firm Morgan Stanley.

September 17, 2007

Yale University to return Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru

LIMA Peru Yale University has agreed to return thousands of Inca artifacts taken from Peru’s famed Machu Picchu citadel almost a century ago, the government said Saturday.

September 16, 2007

Herbal traditions gain academic interest at Appalachian college

FROSTBURG Md. Frostburg State University instructor Sunshine Brosi leads a half-dozen earnest undergraduates 20 yards through the underbrush of a shady forest. Stooping near some black cherry trees, she plucks a pear-shaped yellow berry as long as her thumb from a shin-high plant with large, graceful leaves.

September 16, 2007