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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream. – book reviews
Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and The American Dream Edited by Don Belton, Beacon Press, 1995 $24.00.
June 16, 2007
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Gifted Black male writers flex their intellects – criticism on an anthology of Black male writers
In the opening essay of “Speak My Name,” titled, “How Does It Feel To Be A Problem?” novelist Trey Ellis recounts this joke by the comedian Franklin Ajaye:
June 16, 2007
Students
Drop in Black engineering enrollments confounds experts
As they try to meet the demands of a world on the threshold of some of humankind’s most ambitious projects, engineering school officials throughout the nation are searching for an answer to the same question: Where are the students?
June 16, 2007
African-American
Building the village: one scientist at a time – university professor’s program for minority high school students
When Dr. Billy Joe Evans was in high school, his parents couldn’t pay for the exam that would permit him to attend college early. So one of his teachers paid. “That’s the kind of commitment we need from the village,” he says, alluding to the African proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.”
June 16, 2007
Students
Women still face “chilly classroom climate.” – classroom environment in women’s education
To ensure that women are treated fairly in college classrooms it is not enough for colleges to end discriminatory behavior. They need to change a “chilly classroom climate,” says a new study by the National Association for Women in Education.
June 16, 2007
Students
Georgia gov. proposes major changes in lottery program – Governor Zell Miller
Augusta, GA The Georgia Lottery has produced cash for winners and scholarships for students. But Gov. Zell Miller (D) has proposed changes in the system that critics charge could deny hundreds of African Americans the hope of going to college.
June 16, 2007
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21st century AD
Atlanta, GA When Morehouse College invited scholars to examine society’s lot, they passed the bitter sweet judgment that our age of technology is a double-edged sword. Responsible for the enhancement of life, new technology is also responsible for many unintended social consequences.
June 16, 2007
Recruitment & Retention
Where are the CEOs at recruitment and retention conferences? – minority recruitment
Attending conferences on the recruitment and retention of minorities is often bittersweet. While it is energizing to meet others in higher education who are concerned and dedicated to the issues of recruitment and retention, it is equally as frustrating to see so few high-level administrators in attendance.
June 16, 2007
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Addie & Rebecca – letters of free-born African-American women during the Civil War
Discovered Civil War Era Letters Preserve Two Free-born Black Female Activists’ Comments on Their Life and Times.
June 16, 2007
Students
Reading race in antiquity: the many fallacies of Mary Lefkowitz
Future historians will write that no intellectual idea has been so maligned in the 20th century as Afrocentric theory, the idea that African people are agents and actors in history.
June 16, 2007
Students
Senate Report Questions Student Lender’s Old Rewards System
LINCOLN Neb. Student lender Nelnet used a points system to reward members of an advisory board with donations to universities in exchange for attending meetings and providing ideas, according to a U.S. Senate report.
June 15, 2007
HBCUs
The line forms to the right – presidential election prospects for black higher education
As the curtain rises on the 1996 presidential campaign, a four-year old scenario appears to be repeating itself:
June 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Ready and able – Henry Ponder and National Assn. for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education presidency – Recruitment & Retention
Insiders privy to the search process for a new president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education say the next top executive of the organization created to oversee the needs of Black colleges could be soon-departing Fisk University President Henry Ponder.
June 15, 2007
Students
Going after the high-flying scholars: Florida A & M University ranks among the best in enticing high school best and brightest – Recruitment & Retention
FAMU Ranks Among theBest in Enticing High School Best and Brightest.
June 15, 2007
Students
Priming the pump – University of Virginia School of Medicine program has historically Black institutions as recruitment partners – Recruitment & Retention
UVa Program Involves HBCUs in Recruiting Minority Medical Students.
June 15, 2007
Students
On-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & Retention
New Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.
June 15, 2007
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Faculty Life 101: a survival guide – Recruitment & Retention: The Last Word
Three years ago, we joined the ranks of academe. Diplomas in hand, fresh out of graduate school, we held illusions of a life full of professional growth and intellectual challenges. Little did we realize that the challenges we would face would have little to do with our intellectual abilities. Rather, the challenges would have more to do with developing survival techniques in order to negotiate the perilous currents against which we had to navigate as new Black faculty at a white institution.
June 15, 2007
Latinx
A degree of success – Black students raise Scholastic Assessment Test scores, overcoming ‘stereotype vulnerability’ – Recruitment & Retention
`Stereotype Vulnerability’ Being Overcome As Black Students Raise Their SAT Scores And Collect More Degrees.
June 15, 2007
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