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UNH President, Black Student Leaders Strike Agreement

CONCORD, N.H. University of New Hampshire President Joan Leitzel signed a list of demands last month from Black students who had staged a sit-in at her office.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

BIG Black Issues Quiz

The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth 10 points.

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

College Cancels “Happy Slaves” Class

ARCHDALE, N.C. Community college officials cancelled the final class of a Civil War history course that featured controversial claims by its instructors that most slaves were happy in captivity.

July 14, 2007

Cyber Diversity – online instruction

It’s not unusual that all 15 students in one of Dr. Maureen Eke’s African American literature course sections at Central Michigan University are White. What’s striking, however, is that Black students and their Black professor from a campus located hundreds of miles away are beamed onto a large television screen to join Dr. Eke and her students in class discussions and lectures.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

BI What’s New: Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives

Southeast Missouri State University has a new bachelor of science degree program in environmental science. The program was approved by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education and was established in response to the growing demand for environmental science professionals.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Alabama’s Decree Of Difficulty

Despite a court order, achieving racial parity still appears a long way off

July 14, 2007

Iowa Figures Show Blacks Have Lowest Graduation Rate

IOWA CITY, Iowa A member of the Iowa Board of Regents says a report showing that Black undergraduates are more likely than other minorities to leave the University of Iowa without a degree is cause for concern.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Emerging From the Shadows – Spelman College

Audrey Forbes Manley, M.D., is a former student, activist alumna, trustee, and widow of a former Spelman College president. Now she’s in charge, but after more than a year in office, some observers still don’t know what she’s about.

July 14, 2007

N.C. A&T Enrollment Drops

GREENSBORO Surprised by yet another enrollment decline, historically Black North Carolina A&T University may have to drop the very programs it hoped would make it more competitive with larger, predominantly White colleges.

July 14, 2007

Sour Note for the Marching 100

New allegations of band hazing officials looking for a way to stop a problem they thought had been tamed

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Hampton Considers Legal Action Over Wrongful Arrest

HAMPTON, Va. Hampton University officials have hired renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran and two Texas lawyers to consider taking legal action against the city of Lubbock, Texas, for the wrongful arrest and detainment of the Hampton women’s basketball coach, her husband, and an assistant coach.

July 14, 2007

Worth-Less Grants

Rising Pell grant awards are not keeping pace with rising tuition and a new report shows that they are depriving needy students of educational choice

July 14, 2007

African-American

UTC Surpasses Undergraduate Desegregation Target

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. The Univer-sity of Tennessee-Chattanooga is the only school in the UT system to meet its court-ordered desegregation goal this fall, university administrators say.

July 14, 2007

The Revolution Is Being Televised — on the Internet

The day the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Brown v. Board of Education — May 17, 1954 — has been called “the most important [day] of the 20th Century.”

July 14, 2007

Going for the Gold – annual football game

With football and fun, HBCUs take a classic approach to recruitment and fund raising efforts

July 14, 2007

ED Seeks Input on HEA Implementation

Now that Congress has passed a Higher Education Act bill, the action will move to the U.S. Education Department (ED) for implementation of the law.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Career CONSULTANTS – race education

For years, I’ve been teaching course in which the issue of race was virtually irrelevant. Recently, I’ve developed an interest in working the matter of race and culture into my course, but I fear that by doing so, I’ll be marginalized by colleagues on the faculty. Should I even bother, and if I do, how should I handle it?

July 14, 2007

Ruling Ends Affirmative Action at Boston High School

BOSTON A three-judge panel here struck down the affirmative action policies of Boston Latin School, the city’s most prestigious public high school, according to a story in The New York Times. It is the first such appeals court decision in the nation directed at the K-12 system of education.

July 14, 2007