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Leadership & Policy
The River Running Through College Admissions. – Review – book reviews
If you don’t read another book about higher education this year, you must read William G. Bowen’s and Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions (Princeton University Press, 1998).
July 14, 2007
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Judge Says Radio Station Can Keep Airwaves Klan-Free
ST. LOUIS A federal judge has ruled that the University of Missouri-St. Louis does not have to broadcast Ku Klux Klan announcements on its radio station.
July 14, 2007
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Oracle’s Strategic Investment In Montgomery College
Where does one of the world’s largest computer software companies go when it wants to partner with a college that has a highly diverse student body in a region that is experiencing severe high-tech labor shortages?
July 14, 2007
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Johnson C. Smith Completes $63 Million Capital Campaign
CHARLOTTE, N.C. The bar has been raised for capital campaign drives, and the beneficiary of that ascendancy is Johnson C. Smith University.
July 14, 2007
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UCLA feeder program takes sting out of anti-affirmative action policies – University of California, Los Angeles
VALLEY GLEN, Calif. While other teenagers were chilling in malls or bronzing at the beaches this summer, 16-year-old Gloria Sanchez of Panorama City was busy going to college.
July 14, 2007
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Recruitment & Retention
Afrocentric weapons in the recruitment and retention wars
“Afrocentric.” The mere word has evoked fear in the hearts of many in the academy.
July 14, 2007
African-American
Rooted Against the Wind. – book reviews
Rooted Against the Wind is a collection of essays in which Gloria Wade-Gayles takes us with her as she grapples with personal responses to some gripping issues: aging, rape, homophobia, where Black scholars should teach, and choosing to live in a Black community. Her responses are loving, sensible, and wise.
July 14, 2007
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Despite education, black workers still face challenges
With the unemployment rate at a twenty-eight-year low of 4.5 percent, and discussion of discrimination unpopula in this post-affirmative action era, scant attention has been focused on the unemployment rate gap and the differential status of African American workers. But yes, there is still an unemployment rate gap, and it widened — not narrowed — in the face of economic prosperity.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Faculty focus on technology
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
How did they do that?
Forthcoming Mellon Foundation study documents activities that lead to African American success on standardized tests
July 14, 2007
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Just say no to nepotism
Institutions that lack protections against the conflict of interest that can arise from doing business with relatives are inviting trouble
July 14, 2007
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Sudarkasa’s epilogue – Niara Sudarkasa, Lincoln University – Interview
After nearly twelve years at the helm of one of the nation’s oldest historically Black institutions, Lincoln University, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa resigned last month under a cloud of controversy (see news story pg 14). The former Gloria A. Marshall has enjoyed a more than thirty-year career in higher education, punctuated by achievements that have garnered her both esteem — such as her celebrated work as a professor of anthropology, and her visionary expansion of Lincoln’s already prestigious ties to African nations — and ridicule — her 1991 testimony on behalf of then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, and the current allegations of malfeasance. The following are excerpts from an interview conducted by Black Issues executive editor Cheryl D. Fields only moments after the much revered and maligned president announced her resignation.
July 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Sudarkasa resigns in wake of state’s audit report – Lincoln University, Niara Sudarkasa
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa. Faced with a scathing report from the state, Lincoln University’s president, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, announced on September 15 that she would relinquish her position at the end of the calendar year.
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized
Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Children. – book reviews
I approached the reading of David Halberstam’s The Children with a great deal of trepidation. Here was yet another book written by a White journalist, that focused attention on some of the most significant events in the early Civil Rights Movement. As a lifelong student of the Black struggle, and as a scholar firmly grounded in an African-centered perspective, I doubted that I could gain any new insights from this volume’s nearly 800-page retelling of the Movement. I was wrong.
July 14, 2007
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Home-grown scientists; national labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientists of color
National labs scramble to produce more U.S.-born scientist of color
July 14, 2007
MSIs
Counting on accuracy – Census Bureau looks to minority higher education community for help
Now that the court has ruled against the use of statistical sampling, the U.S. Census Bureau looks to the minority higher education community for assistance
July 14, 2007
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Northwest passage? The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in national struggle over affirmative action
The state of Washington’s Initiative 200 is next round in the national struggle over affirmative action
July 14, 2007
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