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The top 100: interpreting the data – students of color

For the seventh consecutive year, the publishers of Black Issues have asked me to to produce lists of the institutions that confer the largest number of degrees to students of color in the United States. These simple lists are presented with the objective of bringing national attention to those institutions that contribute, in raw numbers, to the educational attainment of members of ethnic and racial minorities.

July 12, 2007

Graduating in prosperous times

When Ed Wrenn pursued a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems at Florida A&M University, the young Boston-area native kept an unwavering watch on the job market. During his time at FAMU, Wrenn estimates that he had contact with nearly one hundred potential employers about jobs after college. By fall 1997, his last semester at FAMU. Wrenn had five job offers to consider.

July 12, 2007

Community Colleges

Proprietary preference – for-profit colleges

One of the surprises emerging from Black Issues’s analysis of the top one hundred institutions conferring degrees on people of color was in the rise of proprietary colleges as major players — particularly in the fields of engineering-related technologies, computer science, and business.

July 12, 2007

The new faces of college

Last year marked York College’s thirtieth anniversary. This spring, the college, which is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, passed yet another milestone. For the first time, it graduated more than 1,000 students, about 75 percent of whom were people of color.

July 12, 2007

The surging degree wave

As the number of White students receiving college degrees has stayed steady for the last five years, the number of African American, Hispanic. Asian. and Native American degree recipients has soared.

July 12, 2007

Loan debt: a new view

Student loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.

July 12, 2007

The persistent madness of Greek hazing: psychologists provide insight on why hazing persists among Black Greeks – fraternities; includes related articles – Cover Story

Mary Polk of Maryland didn’t learn that her son Marcus had been hospitalized until he called his brother when he came out of the operating room on April 8.

July 12, 2007

Bilingual back talk: educators, politicians look for countermeasures to California initiative – Proposition 227

SAN FRANCISCO Just days after California voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to outlaw bilingual education, civil rights groups have filed suit to challenge the new law and school districts are finding ways around it.

July 12, 2007

Sample-minded: scholars of color support new counting strategy for Census 2000

Dr. Robert B. Hill knows the consequences that result when the national census undercounts a community’s population. A locality stands to lose millions of dollars in federal funding for social services, job training education, and other programs if the Census Bureau undercounts the locality’s population, he explains.

July 12, 2007

Congress, Clinton may force education to pay highway toll – President Bill Clinton

When is $200 billion a major problem? When it begins to crowd out spending on education, advocates say.

July 12, 2007

The pragmatism of Bakke – affirmative action

This month’s twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California is an odd occasion to commemorate. The Bakke case is the earliest in which the Supreme Court directly addressed affirmative action. But like much of the affirmative action debate, Bakke is as symbolic as it is real. Appropriately, given its resolution at the time, the Bakke case presents multiple meanings today.

July 12, 2007

The 100 Best Colleges for African American Students. – book reviews

Erlene Wilson could give any guidance counselor a run for his or her money. What she does in the revised and updated edition of The 100 Best Colleges for African American Students is provide an invaluable resource for any student of color who is even considering pursuing postsecondary education.

July 12, 2007

Closing doors and scary thoughts – City University of New York

The City University of New York has had a historical mission to provide higher education to immigrants, the poor, and minority Students. Its alumni include a distinguished roster of intellectuals like polio vaccine inventor Jonas Salk, who might not have had an accessible and affordable college education were it not for CUNY.

July 12, 2007

When hazing leads to death: one campus’ response – Southeast Missouri State University

All campus administrators face issues of hazing, some with more urgency than others. Southeast Missouri State University faced a worse crisis than most in 1994 when twenty-five-year old Michael Davis — a journalism major — died after two weeks of hazing at the hands of his Kappa Alpha Psi brothers.

July 12, 2007

African-American

The Afrocentric Idea, rev. and expanded ed. – book reviews

In this new edition of his book. The Afrocentric Idea, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante seeks to achieve three basic intellectual aims: first, to provide an expansive portrait of the Afrocentric idea; second, to address a new group of critics who have emerged in response to the expansive thrust of the movement he initiated; and third, to pose some concepts and categories for fruitful development of the discourse within the discipline of Black studies.

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Plotting the assassination of little red Sambo: psychologists join war against racist campus mascots – Native American mascots

Psychologists Join War Against Racist Campus Mascots

July 12, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities

More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.

July 12, 2007

New standards will send many CUNY students to community colleges – City University of New York

The man behind the ending of remediation in the City University of New York’s (CUNY) four-year colleges is not New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — although the Republican mayor certainly set the political tone earlier this year by calling for the end of remediation.

July 12, 2007