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Afrolantica Legacies – Review

Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell, Third World Press, $24.95, 186 pages.

July 14, 2007

The Guidance Piece of the Puzzle

One of the obstacles to academic achievement, according to The Education Trust, has been the way guidance counselors are used. Often burdened with complex scheduling duties and the responsibility to do individual and group therapy, they are rarely educational advocates for students — and sometimes, are the exact opposite. Many adults and current students can point to a guidance counselor who steered them away from more rigorous classes, telling them that they weren’t destined for college and would only be setting themselves up for failure. In the words of Education Trusts’ Patricia Martin, “We’ve been sorting and selecting and teaching some a very rigorous and others a watered down curriculum.”

July 14, 2007

A Dream Deferred – Review

Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele, Harper Collins, $19.95, 185 pages.

July 14, 2007

African-American

Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man – Review

Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Vintage Books, $12.00, 256 pages.

July 14, 2007

In Education We Trust – The Education Trust

Kati Haycock, director of The Education Trust, has released a new report full of data that she hopes will support efforts to improve the quality of public education.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Knowing the Real Score: Football vs. Mississippi Education

In fall 1993, while discussing a program for Sunday morning service in our church in Oxford, Miss., a committee member, after looking at her calendar, stated that Sunday would not be a good day for the program because Ole Miss was playing a home football game that weekend. Little did I know at that time how prophetic that statement was. Football is a religion in Mississippi.

July 14, 2007

BI What’s New

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education — an independent, foundation-supported organization — has been formed to promote constructive state and federal policy leading to increased opportunities for those seeking education and training beyond high school.

July 14, 2007

Grants & Awards

Columbia University has been awarded $75,000 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Kellogg Jobs and Education Empowerment Program which will help more than 400 residents of upper Manhattan receive job training, education and employment through a student-based social service program at Columbia.

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African-American Males – Review

Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African-American Males by Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Kenneth I. Maton and Geoffrey L. Greif, Oxford University Press, $25.00, 240 pages.

July 14, 2007

Bi News Briefs

At Central State: Prosecutors Resume Investigation; Fund-Raising Drive Benefits Needy Students

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Career CONSULTANTS

I am considering accepting my first president’s job. What things should I consider before I accept it? Does it matter whether I start at an HBCU or a traditionally White institution?

July 14, 2007

African-American

America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible – Review

America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom, Simon & Schuster, $32.50, 480 pages.

July 14, 2007

Washington Update

Student-Aid Program Begins New Era

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Professional APPOINTMENTS

KARSTEN J.Y. CASH is the new director of the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He comes to UMC from Eastern Illinois University, where he was an academic advisor for the Gateway Program. Cash earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Wesleyan University (Conn.); and a master’s degree in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

July 14, 2007

The Shape of the River: Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions – Review

The Shape of the River’ Long Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions by Derek Bok and Dr. William G. Bowen, Princeton University Press, $22.75, 384 pages.

July 14, 2007

African-American

Just a Nappy-Headed Sister with the PC Blues – Review

I’ve worn my hair shorn close to my head for at least the last 10 years, from time to time letting it get a wild and wooly inch or so past my scalp. I’m a member of the “happy is nappy” school, and gleefully so. For years, I wore the T-shirt of a sister whose naps could be used as the illustration that went with a sign that said “happy is nappy.”

July 14, 2007

Leadership & Policy

At Presstime

JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER

July 14, 2007

The Men Of Brewster Place. – Review – book reviews

Gloria Naylor’s The “Men of Brewster Place” is a profound work that explores the other side of the gender issue. It is a continuation of Naylor’s “The Women of Brewster Place’ and depicts the men who played only minor roles in that book.

July 14, 2007