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Minority enrollment creeps upward at Texas universities: new recruitment strategies and the 10 percent law credited with upturn
AUSTIN, Texas Black and Latino enrollments are beginning to edge upward again at public universities in Texas after the severe drop caused by the 1996 Hopwood decision, which dismantled affirmative action at Texas’s public universities.
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Powerful sisters – college presidents – Cover Story
Within only a couple of decades, women of color have come a long way in their representation among college presidents. The place where they are most abundant is at community colleges. There are currently 104 women of color heading postsecondary institutions, and 61 of these are at community colleges.
July 12, 2007
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Bluefield State College strikes agreement with Feds – racial discrimination
Discrimination investigation closed after school pledges to change its ways
July 12, 2007
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New partnerships with minority-serving institutions are designed to improve the count while training young scientists
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Type casting for women presidents – of jobs and institutions
The just-released American Council on Education report, The American College President, found that there were no gains in the number of presidencies for African Americans. Research that I conducted in the spring of 1996 on data collected from African American and White women who were college presidents demonstrate, to some degree, why this is particularly true for African American women while women in general — clearly, White women — are experiencing progress.
July 12, 2007
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A Hope in the Unseen. – book reviews
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to teach at several high schools in New Jersey. Once again, I was disappointed with American public school education. Our society seems to be failing the majority of our young people. Who is to blame? Who is responsible? Every day, many of our young people simply show tip at an educational site, move through the corridors, laugh with friends, talk about clothes and sports, ignore their teachers, and wait for the day to end so that they can return to the streets. Unless we undertake and adopt major reforms, our democratic foundation as a nation will be imperiled.
July 12, 2007
African-American
Bostonians squabble over headline – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., is all over the place. He was a consultant to the movie Amistad and is a writer for New Yorker magazine, the featured guest in a BBC series on Africa, a book author, a department chairperson, and a professor. Described by many as an “intellectual superstar,” the million-dollar earner has put Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department on the map by attracting a “Dream Team” of mostly male scholars.
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Scholars say basta to Chicano/Latino president shortage – enough
Efforts are underway to create a new pipeline to reverse shrinking representation
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Climbing to the top – African American community college presidents
Rising to the helm of two-year institutions continues to be a challenge for aspiring African American college presidents
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
African American college presidents in decline
Yet the pipeline of Black scholars poised to assume presidential status is growing
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Reflections of a trailblazer – African American Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., former president of Michigan State University – Cover Story – Interview
Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., reflects on his career and shares his insight on the current status of African Americans in higher education
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Black ivy mysteries – mystery books about black scholars in white institutions
WASHINGTON, D.C. It’s not uncommon for fiction writers to create heroes and heroines whose personalities and life circumstances stem from the writer’s own experiences. So it should come as no surprise that when Pamela Thomas-Graham decided to write a mystery novel, she created an African American heroine who teaches at the same university where she spent her undergraduate and graduate years.
July 12, 2007
HBCUs
NAFEO signs new technology partner – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
WASHINGTON, D.C. In a development that is expected to bring the latest and most advanced information technology to the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), an Atlanta-based technology company and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) have formed an alliance to make it easier for the schools to acquire technology.
July 12, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty
Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Honoring the past, leading toward the future – goals for president of Johnson C. Smith University
It is often the dream of professional educators in higher education to be tapped for the leadership position of the institution that nurtured them. But even when that occurs, no one is ever prepared f6r the realities, the real demands, and sometimes unrealistic expectations placed upon the head and shoulders of the college president.
July 12, 2007
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Daughters of Thunder. – book reviews
Daughters of Thunder is a wonderful compilation of thirty-eight first-time-published sermons of fourteen African American female preachers, many of whom were the first African American females to pastor churches, receive ordination, and be granted terminal degrees.
July 12, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Path to the presidency – American Council on Education grants to develop academic management skills
Let’s say you want to be a college president some day. You’ve already survived the trials associated with earning a doctorate and winning tenure. You’ve even risen to a middle-management position on campus. Now what?
July 12, 2007
Students
An enduring commitment – Xavier University’s president Norman C. Francis
In three decades, Norman C. Francis has led Xavier University from local fame to national acclaim
July 12, 2007
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