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HBCUs
Federal spending for HBCUs is up: agencies from the CIA to the Veterans Administration increase grants, fellowships and gifts – historically black colleges and universities, Central Intelligence Agency
Federal grant, training and recruiting spending directed at historically Black colleges and universities jumped by 21 percent in a two-year, period, according to government figures in a soon-to-be released report.
June 20, 2007
Students
Cost hikes blamed on regulatory compliance – federal regulations not responsible for rise in education costs
In a possible preview of the debate on next year’s reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), college and university leaders told Congress this month that federal regulations are partly to blame for the high cost of college.
June 20, 2007
Health
Affirmative action is indispensable if we want doctors for the 21st century – importance of minority representation in medicine
Affirmative action is an umbrella that covers many activities — from aggressive recruiting to filling quotas, from the awarding of contracts to higher education admissions. This means that opponents can call up unpopular images of the most aggressive examples of affirmative action (such as hiring set-asides) to attack the entire idea of affirmative action.
June 20, 2007
LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.
June 20, 2007
LGBTQ+
Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews
Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”
June 20, 2007
Sports
Rekindling Wilma’s legacy: Tennessee State University struggles to revive Olympic tradition – athlete Wilma Rudolph
It was only fitting that the route for the Atlanta-bound Olympic torch ran right through the heart of the historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) campus in Nashville. After all, the school has a storied tradition in women’s track and field.
June 20, 2007
Sports
The kiddie brigade heads for the NBA – underclassmen’s preference for National Basketball Association over education
A record 37 underclassmen, plus three high school students, made themselves available for the recent National Basketball Association draft, adding to the growing concern of many that more and more young men, particularly Black men, will abandon educational pursuits for hoop dreams.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School names new dean
PHILADELPHIA The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School said Thursday that it has named Thomas S. Robertson as its new dean, effective Aug. 1.
June 20, 2007
Sports
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.
June 20, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The dirty little secret of college admissions – irregularities in the admission procedure at the University of California
In the aftermath of an expose by the Los Angeles Times that some students were admitted to the University of California at the request of prominent people, a report by the university was recently released.
June 20, 2007
Home
Life after Hopwood – University of Texas stops using standardized tests for admissions – Cover Story
El Paso, TX — Hopwood — the case that has thrown affirmative action programs into a tailspin — may be a “blessing in disguise,” according to University of Texas at El Paso president Diana Natalicio.
June 20, 2007
Leadership & Policy
We’ve all had to adjust on Capitol Hill
Covering Capitol Hill over the past two years represents a prime example of how important it is for journalists to stay flexible and learn new rules of the trade to remain productive.
June 20, 2007
Home
Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media: From Mass to Class Communication. – book reviews
By Clint C. Wilson II and Felix Gutierrez, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 290 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper “Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media” reads like a textbook: that is both its strength and its weakness.
June 20, 2007
Home
Who are journalists & journalism students? – excerpts from ‘Winds of Change,’ a Freedom Forum report
The following was excerpted from “Winds of Change,” a recent report from the Freedom Forum.
June 20, 2007
Sports
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Limits on Recruiting High School Athletes
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said Thursday that athletic associations can enforce limits on recruiting high school athletes without violating coaches’ free speech rights.
June 20, 2007
Community Colleges
Educating the press: Columbia’s Teachers College seeks to improve education coverage
Too often reporters are thrown onto the education beat with little more preparation than their own school experience. Saying it can help make sense of a bewildering beat, the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, has been founded to offer a wide range of services to working reporters, editors and broadcast producers at Teachers College at Columbia University.
June 20, 2007
STEM
In Bid To Keep Job, SU President Airs Details of Alleged Sexual Harassment Complaint Against Board Chair At Hearing
BATON ROUGE, La. Suspended Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter went to federal court Wednesday in an effort to save his job, and identified seven female university employees who complained about being sexually harassed by Southern Board Chairman Johnny Anderson last year.
June 20, 2007
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Students
More Missouri Colleges Sign Student Loan Code
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Eleven public and private colleges in Missouri have agreed to a code of conduct regarding student loans, Attorney General Jay Nixon said Wednesday.
June 20, 2007
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