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Run silent, run cheap: the high price of not asking for salary equity

In today’s environment, white males are increasingly feeling as if they are being personally blamed for the fact that there is still a significant wage gap between whites and Blacks and men and women.

June 18, 2007

Staying competitive – marketing campaigns of historically Black colleges and universities

Nashville, Tn — After a decade of watching enrollment swell at almost twice ,the rate of predominantly white institutions, some historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are beefing up marketing efforts to remain competitive.

June 18, 2007

Bonding your portfolio – investment in higher education bonds

With a stock market pushing to record levels, it’s not hard to understand why so many investors are buying stock equities and mutual funds. Stock investors have seen their portfolios fatten over the last few years.

June 18, 2007

Wall Street is watching: enrollment, retention and tuition aren’t just an academic concern

Graduation ceremonies are over and a new freshman class is only weeks away from orientation. As another campus metamorphosis begins, student classes are clear evidence of a university’s realization that building enrollments and promoting graduation rates are only a small measure of their success.

June 18, 2007

African-American

Educational gains by minority students threatened – affirmative action programs

Washington — The nation’s students of color made significant gains in college enrollment and the number of degrees they earned in recent years, but the gap between them and their white counterparts on all educational levels is glaring, says a report released this month by the American Council on Education (ACE).

June 18, 2007

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. – book reviews

Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s memorable poem, “If We Must Die,” be-speaks the valor of men who, “hunted and penned in an inglorious spot” and “pressed to the wall, dying” must join their kinsmen, “meet the common foe” and fight back.

June 18, 2007

Fore! NCAA division I: golf taps its first historically Black college – National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I golf tournament raises doubts on commitment to nurturing black golfers

Jackson State University made history this spring by becoming the first historically Black institution to have its golf team invited to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I golf tournament. Division 110 the NCAA’s top competitive division.

June 18, 2007

USOC pushes for diversity behind the scenes – US Olympic Committee

The U.S. has produced more than its share of women and minority athletes who have made their marks and claimed Olympic glory. But behind the scenes is a different story.

June 18, 2007

1996 Ad

Atlanta – When Atlanta was named host city for the 1996 Olympic Games, recent Morris Brown College graduate LaDon Love dreamed about being a part of the event. That dream will come true next month when the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) will pay LaDon $160 per day to keep track of cameras during the broadcasts of the Olympics.

June 18, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Rainy day blues at UDC: furloughs, pay cuts and tuition hikes at the University of the District of Columbia – University of the District of Columbia

Washington For most colleges and universities, May is the month for bestowing “rights and privileges” to deserving scholars.

June 18, 2007

Duke, Exonerated Lacrosse Players Reach Settlement

Duke University has reached an undisclosed financial settlement with three former men’s lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, the school said Monday.

June 18, 2007

Winston-State University Teams up with NASCAR for a Degree Program

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Winston-Salem State University has teamed up with NASCAR to launch the nation’s first motorsport management bachelor’s degree program at a historically Black college or university. The program is one of the initiatives NASCAR has undertaken to introduce minorities to some of the behind-the-scenes opportunities in auto racing.

June 18, 2007

Migrant education shows young Hispanics striving to assimilate

NEW OXFORD Pa. Uprooted from his native Mexico and overwhelmed by an unfamiliar language, Jorge Lua-Ildefonso was miserable on his first day of school in the United States just five years ago.

June 17, 2007

Merger no longer a threat for Mississippi Valley State

Over the years as the fate of a small, Black, rural institution unfolded in and out of the court, business was as usual as it could have been at Mississippi Valley State University.

June 17, 2007

Reflections on the importance of role models – an African-American teacher defends use of Black role models

Thirty years ago I graduated from high school. I can still remember how excited I was getting ready to start college. I was salutatorian, of my high school graduating class. Tenths of a point separated me from the valedictorian and the student who was third. All three of us were interested in mathematics and science. We had not been told that as Blacks we weren’t supposed to do well in these areas.

June 17, 2007

Who benefits from affirmative action? – Whites are key beneficiaries of special admission standards at Washington State

In the midst of all the current breast-beating about affirmative action, the Washington State Commission on African-American Affairs has found that data — provided by four-year institutions and compiled by the Washington State Office of Financial Management show that whites are the key beneficiaries of “special/alternative admission standards” and affirmative action affecting hiring at Washington States’s four-year schools. The beneficiaries include significant numbers of white men as well as white women.

June 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.

June 17, 2007

We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007