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Controversial plan may cut student loan costs – student loan provision
Low- and middle-income college students could get a break on their student loans next year — if Congress can defy the wishes of private lenders.
July 11, 2007
Students
Increasing power, not just numbers – senior-level African American administrators
Since the late 1960s, there has been a substantial increase in the number of senior-level African American administrators at traditionally White institutions. However, I contend that this increase conveys a partly false perception, and that perception leads one to believe that a goal of higher education — racial equalization — has been achieved.
July 11, 2007
African-American
Black Men Speaking. – book reviews
Reading Black Men Speaking is not unlike the dichotomous soul-troubling and spirit-affirming experience of attending all-day Sunday or Wednesday night church services. The book is a gripping litany of sermon, scripture reading and spirituality. It is strident and unembarrassed by its message, urgent in its delivery, somewhat daunting in the tenets it proposes, and clear in its mission.
July 11, 2007
Students
Home shopping network: CD-ROMs facilitate college search process
With a seventeen-year-old high school junior for a son, the time has come once again to go college shopping. And as one of those guys who hates to shop, I naturally was looking for something that would allow me to visit a university or two hundred without leaving home. After all, travel expenses can be…well, expensive.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Florida A&M advances with Internet2 – Florida A&M University
When the word went out last year that a consortium of major universities was forming to create the next generation of Internet technology and applications, Florida A&M University did not hesitate to join the initiative. Researchers at the nationally acclaimed school engaged in molecular database development, atmospheric physics calculations and other computing intensive research recognized that an advanced Internet could smooth the way for their collaboration with other researchers around the nation.
July 11, 2007
Students
The virtual classroom – new technology for teaching African American literature – includes related article on Western Governor’s University – Cover Story
Bryan Carter is devoted to teaching African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance era, a period considered one of the most creative in American history.
July 11, 2007
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Latinx
Black/Brown coalition fights back – University of Texas minority students
Austin In a recent speech at the University of Texas, the Rev. Jesse Jackson counseled a spirited crowd of several thousand chanting students to “turn a minus into a plus” as they thought about how to respond to the comments of UT law professor Lino Graglia who said blacks and Hispanics come from cultures where “failure is not considered a disaster.”
July 11, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Hicks gets sacked by grambling state – Grambling State University Pres. Raymond Hicks
Grambling State University president Dr. Raymond A. Hicks is leaving his job after losing the confidence of the Louisiana Board of Trustees for State Colleges and Universities while ongoing financial and administrative problems continue to plague the northern Louisiana school.
July 11, 2007
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Not guilty! – study supports contention that, in most cases, affirmative action does not deny Whites access to higher education
The most ardent argument made against affirmative action is that it allows less qualified African American and Hispanic students to take seats away from more qualified White students.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Tenureless U: at Florida Gulf Coast University, tenure is out and multi-year contracts are in
FORT MYERS, Fla. The narrow band of habitable land between the Gulf of Mexico and Florida’s Everglades is where a band of 150 pioneers have staked their claims.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Post-tenure review – college teachers
ATLANTA The rules have changed and if you don’t like it, you can go home.
July 11, 2007
Post-Tenure Review
Faculty & Staff
Tenure at HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities
Tenure is as valued at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as it is at traditionally White institutions (TWIs). Given the current political and economic climate, however, faculty at HBCUs may ultimately be in greater danger of losing their tenure privileges than scholars at other institutions.
July 11, 2007
Academic Freedom without Tenure
Faculty & Staff
The shelter of tenure is eroding and for faculty of color gaining membership may be tougher than ever – African American teachers – includes related articles on several cases regarding tenure
Hazing is the dark side of campus life. Desperate to be accepted into an exclusive club, bright young people will tolerate long periods of psychological abuse, often being forced to perform onerous tasks which established members consider below their dignity.
July 11, 2007
Academic Freedom without Tenure
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Thumbs down on the SAT – scholastic assessment test
SAN FRANCISCO Echoing the recommendation of a Latino task force that the SAT requirement for admission to the University of California (UC) be dropped, several speakers at the fifty-third National Association for College Admission Counseling conference declared their opposition to standardized test requirements for college admission.
July 11, 2007
Faculty & Staff
The tenure labyrinth – teachers in Afro-American studies
My first academic job interview resulted in a job offer. My doctorate is in American Studies, but the job offer was in Afro-American Studies. Because I am actually interested in Afro-American Studies, this was not a great hardship for me. However, a light did go on in my head. I remembered hearing – more than once – that for Black scholars, all roads tend to lead to Black Studies.
July 11, 2007
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Leadership & Policy
Working Capitol Hill: presidents of historically Black institutions spend week in Washington, where HUD grants $6.5 million to seventeen HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities; Dept of Housing and Urban Development
WASHINGTON The observance of National Historically Black Col leges and Universities Week drew more than sixty presidents from institutions dedicated to the higher education pursuits of African Americans to the nation’s capital in late September for meetings with federal officials. The week culminated with the announcement of a multi-million dollar grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to several historically Black colleges and universities.
July 11, 2007
Students
Black Teachers on Teaching. – book reviews
Does American society want to educate all of its children? An optimist would respond that of course it does, but it just can’t seem to provide equity in its distribution of resources and educational outcomes. Others would argue that social, political and economic forces create hurdles which slow or completely retard the flow of positive educational goods and benefits into certain communities.
July 11, 2007
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Private tuition increases 5 percent – four-year independent colleges and universities
WASHINGTON Tuition rates increased by 5 percent at four-year independent colleges and universities according to a report released by the College Board in September.
July 11, 2007
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