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Faculty & Staff
Growing from the center
Research centers abound on the nation’s campuses, offering dynamic career opportunities for scholars at every level
July 14, 2007
Students
Celebrating Africana studies: program gets ‘coming out party’ at New York University
NEW YORK In the 1960s, college administrations cobled together piece-meal Black studies programs to placate African American students, inspired by Black Power and African independence struggles, demanding curriculums and professors “relevant” to their experiences.
July 14, 2007
Sports
Nike, HBCUs strike deal – Historically Black Colleges and Universities
WASHINGTON The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) and sporting goods giant Nike announced last month, that they have signed a historic, three-year agreement that will not only provide footwear and apparel for conference teams, but also will include summer internships for students at Nike headquarters.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
ACE report urges nontraditional admissions criteria – American Council on Education
WASHINGTON When it comes to admissions practices, the status quo has got to go. That was the core message of the American Council on Education’s (ACE) latest status report highlighting progress in the growth of minority students and faculty on American campuses.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
1998 Ad
ORLANDO, Fla. At the final national conference held here last month under the venerable name of Educom, David A. Staudt, along with hundreds of college and university information technology professionals, began charting a course for higher education’s new information technology organization, Educause.
July 14, 2007
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Professional APPOINTMENTS
TALLADEGA GETS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT
July 14, 2007
Students
News Briefs
WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.
July 14, 2007
HBCUs
Black Issues Quiz
The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the 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 ten points.
July 14, 2007
Students
Washington Update
HBCU, HSI Funds Clear Congress
July 14, 2007
Home
Measuring Entrepreneurial Success. – Review – book reviews
Race, Self-Employment, and Upward Mobility: An Illusive American Dream
July 14, 2007
Home
Students Are Shunning Technology’s Fast Track
WASHINGTON Forget starting salaries above $40,000 and a choice of companies come graduation day. Freshmen may be toting laptops and chatting by e-mail, but they’re shunning majors that would put them on a fast track for computer jobs.
July 14, 2007
Latinx
Harmony and Discord
In the struggle for access and opportunity, different racial and ethnic groups have often — but not always — joined forces in an attempt to exert influence over those who formulate national policy. Sometimes the association has been harmonious; sometimes it has been discordant. Sometimes it has been effective; other times it has been non-productive. Below are seven examples of Black/ Hispanic coalition efforts, some successful, some unsuccessful.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Power & Pain of Multicultural Politics on Campus
When votes came in a few weeks ago for new student senators at California State University Northridge (CSUN), most of the winners were students of color. While that shouldn’t seem unusual for a multi-ethnic campus where minorities constitute 62 percent of the 27,000 students, it was a noteworthy departure from past elections.
July 14, 2007
csun
Latinx
A United Way
Capitalizing on the Opportunity for Black/Latino Cooperation
July 14, 2007
Students
The Pursuit of Meritocratic and Egalitarian Ideals on College Campuses
On almost every campus in the nation, two projects are clearly in view. One is the maintenance of meritocracy; the other is the pursuit of an egalitarian ideal.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Black Faculty Congress Advances Research Agenda
WASHINGTON The National Congress of Black Faculty met here last month for their twelfth annual conference to discuss a host of topics that ranged from affirmative action’s impact on Black access to higher education, to the role of Black scholars in shaping public policy, to the importance of computer literacy.
July 14, 2007
Students
Grants & Awards
The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Is Tenure In Your Future?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Tenure, an institution as hallowed as universities themselves, has been subject to a torrent of criticism in recent years, forcing academics to decide whether it is a college’s hallmark of academic excellence or the bane of its existence.
July 14, 2007
Academic Freedom without Tenure
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