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Health
Telemedicine in the ‘hood – treating patients from a remote location with aid of high-technology communications
Technology enables an historically Black medical college to serve poor Los Angelenos at greatly reduced costs
July 13, 2007
Students
The networking imperative – investment in high-technology information infrastructure – includes related article
The high cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure necessary to support information is nowhere near the price schools will play if they do not develop this strategic asset.
July 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
More rigorous reporting needed – on affirmative action
WASHINGTON, D.C. When a news reporter fails o bring depth and sophistication to his or her reporting about affirmative action issues, he or she runs the risk of being a “megaphone for PR agents,” Harvard Law School Professor Christopher Edley Jr. told a gathering of more than fifty reporters and educators at a National Association of Black Journalists convention workshop here last month.
July 13, 2007
Home
FCC “downsizes” discount Internet program – for public schools and libraries
Corporate pressure blocks public schools and libraries from getting information superhighway discounts
July 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Out of the public eye – Bryant Gumbel – Cover Story – Interview
For fifteen years, Bryant Charles Gumbel was a part of America’s morning ritual. As the co-host of NBC’s Today Show, he would meet you at the morning breakfast table, wide-eyed and brimming with the new day’s headlines and trivia, which he delivered with his easy smile, sharp intellect, and quirky wit.
July 13, 2007
HBCUs
New ‘Fordice’ report may benefit Mississippi HBCUs – Ayers v. Fordice, historically Black colleges and universities
Jackson, Miss. The new report is 400 pages and 100,000 words — one of the bulkiest in memory — and is touted as a reaffirmation of the importance of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
July 13, 2007
African-American
When speech is truly free
When I walked into the newsroom of The Houston Post on August 16, 1972, there were only three other African Americans working at this major daily as full-time journalists. I was twenty-three years old, just two months out of school, armed with a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and the memories of growing up in segregated North Louisiana.
July 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa
Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.
July 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Art, audits, and allegations – Lincoln University, President Niara Sudarkasa
Lincoln University, Pa. Summer break is normally a time of respite, a pause in the scholastic action to allow administrators, faculty, and students a little timeout and a chance to get the batteries charged. But it seems the only things being charged at Lincoln University in rural southeastern Pennsylvania this summer are highly publicized allegations of fiscal mismanagement and misconduct.
July 13, 2007
Home
Afrolantica Legacies. – book reviews
Like the mythic lost nation chronicled in the title and opening chapter, this book offers much in the way of promise. It, after all, was writ ten by one of the foremost critical legal scholars and academic activists of this era, New York-cum-Harvard University’s Derrick Bell.
July 13, 2007
Leadership & Policy
South Carolina State pursuing solvency: controversial loan from University of South Carolina part of remedy
Orangeburg, S.C. Four years of operating in the red finally forced South Carolina State University to borrow $2.1 million from another state institution. But it appears the historically Black institution may be able to avoid that problem next year.
July 13, 2007
African-American
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
As entombed as most of our stories have been throughout American history, many of us know about the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr., or slavery and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
July 13, 2007
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Students
Is there a future for Chicano/Chicana studies?
Mexico City A thousand Chicana and Chicano scholars came to this ancient Aztec capital in June, as participants in The National Association of Chicana and Chicago Scholars’ (NACCS) annual meeting, to ponder the future of their discipline and to become reacquainted with Mexico.
July 13, 2007
Students
Newsroom power shortage – minorities in journalism
Are students of color getting the inside scoop on what it takes to become news editors and producers?
July 13, 2007
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Faculty & Staff
Diversifying the fourth estate – journalism schools
Will journalism schools continue to pursue students of color now that the American Society of Newspaper Editors has scaled back its commitment to diversity?
July 13, 2007
HBCUs
Charting journalism degrees
The data for this study come from the United Stated Department of Education. It is collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) program completers survey conducted by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). The survey requests data on the number of degrees and other formal awards conferred in academic, vocational, and continuing professional education programs. Institutions report their data according to the Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes developed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES). CIP codes provide a common set of categories allowing comparisons across all colleges and universities.
July 13, 2007
Home
Capped lenses – African American photojournalists
Throughout most of the history of photojournalism, the images of African Americans featured in White-owned media were captured by people who were not Black. Black Issues spoke to some of today’s most prominent African American photojournalists to get their views on the education and experience students of color need to excel in this highly competitive field.
July 13, 2007
Latinx
Educated Immigrants Often Can’t Find Jobs that Match Skills
SAN FRANCISCO In Peru, Ines Gonzalez-Lehman directed a 14-person marketing team at a high-tech firm. After marrying an American and immigrating legally to the U.S., she found herself making copies and answering phones at the bottom of the corporate ladder.
July 12, 2007
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