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Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?

Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Moving on up: the allure and the aggravation of becoming a Division I school

Eight year a ago, Dr. William R. Harvey had a vision. The Hampton University president was convinced that with the right approach, the school could hold its own at the highest level of collegiate competition. Now that is is clear that Harvey’s vision was not just a case of wishful thinking, there appears to be another school — Norfolk State University (NSU) — ready to follow his lead.

July 6, 2007

An NCAA tournament de force performance – Coppin State College

It was as shocking as it was improbable. As a result, some are calling Coppin State College’s dramatic win over the University of South Carolina in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Basketball Tournament the single most significant victory in the history of sports at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 6, 2007

There is more to life than sports: getting brothers to take the road less traveled

Based on recent statistics released during the Jackie Robinson celebration on “Nightline,” 70 percent of the players in the National Football League are African American, 80 percent in the National Basketball Association, and 19 percent in Major League Baseball. That’s fewer than 1,400 Black men on professional contract.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC battling back after major surgery – University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON It was with poetic irony that Mother Nature dealt the northeastern states one final blow of frosty weather on April Fool’s Day.

July 6, 2007

The true significance of sports for Black Americans

I am not a sports fan. I’ve written that so many times it seems redundant to write it again. No, this is not another sports-bashing column. Been there, done that. This is a column about the context of sports, about the reasons why sports has been so important for African American people.

July 6, 2007

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

July 6, 2007

In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. – book reviews

Like former talk-show host Arsenio Hall, Kenneth L. Shropshire, in his excellent book, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, discusses things that make you go “HMMMMM?”

July 6, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

Arthur Ashe and the next generation of student athletes – Sports Scholars

With all the attention that we have finally come to pay to Arthur Ashe as a pioneering professional athlete and humanitarian it is easy to forget that Ashe was first an incredible college student-athlete at the University of California Los Angeles in the 1960s.

July 6, 2007

Bail-out helps Texas Southern – at least temporarily – Texas Southern University

HOUSTON As Texas Southern University celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, university administrators are hoping a financial bail-out and accountability plan will help the historically Black college survive at least another fifty years.

July 6, 2007

African-American

Gone Fishin.’ – book reviews

Gone Fishin’, the first-written and latest-published of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, may well be his finest work. Written in 1988, the book is a complex work with layers of meaning, yet it is deceptively simple and therefore easy to read and completely absorbing. Perhaps that is one of the marks of a classic.

July 6, 2007

Office for Civil Rights puts Texas on notice – investigation to determine Texas’ compliance with a Civil Rights provision

While Texas state officials scramble to adopt race-neutral admissions and financial aid policies in the state’s public higher education system? the U.S. Department of Education has opened an inquiry to determine whether the state is complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

July 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

A remedy for Central State’s problems?

DAYTON, OHIO Some Ohio legislators want to force Central State University to merge with another institution of higher education despite a graduation rate for Black students that exceeds that of nearly half of the state’s public universities.

July 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Suit threatens status of Georgia’s public Black universities

ATLANTA Alumni and supporters of Georgia’s historically Black public colleges and universities are beginning to mobilize in reaction to a law suit filed last month that seeks to increase white enrollment at those schools.

July 5, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Searching for the best – officials of African American universities and colleges

At his ranch-style home in Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Mickey L. Burnim keeps a file that can perhaps best be labeled. “Things not to do as chancellor of a university.”

July 5, 2007

Stillman’s Wynn provided accessible visibility – Stillman College Pres Dr. Cordell Wynn

Dr. Cordell Wynn, president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, may be retiring, but he’s not going to stop working. He plans to remain active in the world of higher education, writing and consulting on the relationship between presidents and boards of trustees of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

July 5, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

July 5, 2007