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Exhibition Education: Atlanta History Center program introduces black students to the museum world – includes related article on funding for black museum

Every year millions of visitors flock to the more than 8,000 museums across the United States. From house museums and storefront galleries to the venerable Smithsonian Institution, these varied treasuries affirm and transmit our nation’s complex history and cultural values.

July 10, 2007

Bloom & board: black school helps students blossom away from home – Piney Woods Country Life School

It’s a muggy spring morning and the spirit is alive and moving through many of the students gathered in the auditorium-turned-Sunday-chapel at the Piney Woods Country Life School.

July 10, 2007

Bloom & board: black school helps students blossom away from home – Piney Woods Country Life School

It’s a muggy spring morning and the spirit is alive and moving through many of the students gathered in the auditorium-turned-Sunday-chapel at the Piney Woods Country Life School.

July 10, 2007

Bloom & board: black school helps students blossom away from home – Piney Woods Country Life School

It’s a muggy spring morning and the spirit is alive and moving through many of the students gathered in the auditorium-turned-Sunday-chapel at the Piney Woods Country Life School.

July 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Acting out: black theater in transition – Cover Story

August Wilson has achieved the success most playwrights only dream about. His award-winning plays – which include “Fences”, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” and “The Piano Lesson” – have rendered sensitive and probing portrayals of African American life. Staged in venues ranging from regional theaters to Broadway, Wilson’s plays have earned two Pulitzer Prizes and lavish praise from critics.

July 10, 2007

The enforcer: an interview with Raymond C. Pierce – civil rights chief at US Dept of Education – Interview

In a span of nearly four years, Raymond C. Pierce, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, has supervised some 600 civil rights compliance reviews of school districts across the nation. His portfolio in higher education has included managing policy development on issues ranging from gender fairness in intercollegiate athletics to race-targeted scholarships to higher education desegregation.

July 10, 2007

The meaning of the numbers – rankings of colleges and universities with most minority students – Special Report: Top 100 Graduate & Professional Degree Producers

This is the second part of Black Issues In Higher Education’s annual “Top 100” rankings of colleges and universities that graduate the most minority, students. In part I, Black Issues ranked schools that grant baccalaureate degrees. In this issue, Black Issues ranks graduate and professional schools, beginning on page 22.

July 10, 2007

The myths of race and the freedom of multiculturalism

Our identity as Black people has been significantly influenced by mythical traditions which have shaped our thinking and our lives.

July 10, 2007

Clouded optimism: graduate and professional degree rate among minorities outpaces that of whites, but experts predict surge will end if affirmative action backlash continues – Special Report: Top 100 Graduate & Professional Degree Producers

The numbers of African Americans earning graduate degrees at American colleges and universities from 1991 to 1995 increased at rates more than double the general graduate student population.

July 10, 2007

Beyond Black & White: Transforming African American Politics. – book reviews

In the twenty-nine years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of conservatism as the dominant force in national politics, many scholars and intellectuals have struggled mightily to explain “what has happened” to Black people. As the millennium approaches, academia, and we as a society, have been confronted with the issue of racism and have sought to re-examine those public policies which have directly impacted the quality of the Black American experience.

July 10, 2007

Law schools, measures of merit and the public’s perception of the legal profession

I see the affirmative action debate and the role of the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) in that debate as the major challenges facing this organization – and legal education – over the next several years.

July 10, 2007

Loving life: the legacy of Betty Shabazz – Obituary

The first time I met Betty Shabazz I was, frankly, in open-mouthed awe of her. I sort of buzzed around her, hovered in her orbit, but didn’t say a word. She had been married to Malcolm X, I told myself. And after his assassination, she raised six daughters by herself. She earned a Ph.D. as an adult, and was running a major department at Medgar Evers College. The woman must be awesome, I told myself. So I watched and I wondered when and how I could approach her and share my admiration.

July 10, 2007

Tennessee college becomes battleground of words and wits: nineteen Shelby State nursing students dropped from program stir controversy – Shelby State Community College

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Higher education officials are locked in an unusual battle of words and wills with several state legislators here – all over a dispute about failed nursing students.

July 10, 2007

Faithful to its mission: Donnelly College provides second chances to inner-city students

KANSAS CITY, Kan. Donnelly College is blessed with a gift. Despite repeated monetary incentives to move from its poor, inner-city environment, it has remained in a single nine-story brick building – an old hospital gutted and rebuilt into a place of learning.

July 10, 2007

Ford Fellows Fund established to increase minority participation in Ph.D. program

At the 1993 annual conference of minority recipients of the Ford Foundation’s Fellowship Fund for doctoral candidates and graduates, Dr. Bai Akridge asked this question of the participants: “If we’ve agreed that this program is so important to us, why aren’t we doing something to help ourselves, too?”

July 10, 2007

Coming to grips with the problems of race – interview with Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education co-chair Thomas Kean – Interview

In addition to serving as a co-chair of the Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE), Thomas Kean, president of Drew University and former governor of New Jersey, was recently appointed to the president’s newly formed advisory commission on race. Following the CNIHE press conference, Gov. Kean discussed the report and the advisory commission with Black Issues In Higher Education:

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

Report urges greater public investment in higher education

The Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE) released a two-year study that warns a “growing shortfall in public funding may force the nation’s colleges and universities to turn away half the student population by the year 2015.”

July 10, 2007

Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top. – book reviews

In April, Americans from all walks of life gathered in Philadelphia to answer the nation’s first peacetime bipartisan “call.”

July 10, 2007