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Faculty & Staff
Career CONSULTANTS
DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I am contemplating accepting a position as a minority affairs coordinator at a traditionally White institution. It is rumored that such positions can be dead-end career busters. Are there conditions or considerations that I should insist on before accepting the position?
July 14, 2007
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BI What’s New
Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation is hosting an exhibit titled, “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.”
July 14, 2007
Community Colleges
Programs, Accreditations, & Opportunities
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Rochester (N.Y.) City School District have teamed with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) to offer the Engineering Vanguard Program — an initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority students seeking engineering careers.
July 14, 2007
Health
The Tuskegee Experiment’s Long Shadow
Scholars examine the impact of conspiracy theories on African Americans
July 14, 2007
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Financial Officer Says SC State Will Balance Budget
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State University’s financial officer said that despite the looks of things, the school will balance its budget.
July 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
The Donation Station
Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges
July 14, 2007
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Lincoln Gets Half of State Funding
HARRISBURG, Pa. Gov. Tom Ridge is expected to sign legislation that would fund half of the state’s $11 million appropriation to Lincoln University, a spokesman said last month. However, he did not say when the bill would be signed.
July 14, 2007
Students
Chugging Toward Recovery
CSX Transportation is helping Edward Waters College get on track to a brighter future
July 14, 2007
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Sports
Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas Prairie View A&M University’s suspension has been put on hold.
July 14, 2007
Students
The Broken Pledges of Greek Life
Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing
July 14, 2007
African-American
Letters To The Editor
If one of the editorial goals of Black Issues In Higher Education is to advocate and expand the base of those who seek to increase educational opportunities for Blacks, care must be most intensive when reporting the results of various studies that address any issue pertinent to the stated goal. This includes the issue of affirmative action.
July 14, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Geo Sage
Dr. Randolph Wilson “Bill” Bromery had no intention of becoming a geologist when he graduated from Howard University in 1948 with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics. He had planned to get a job at the U.S. Naval Research laboratory. But after applying for a job there four times, he was convinced the lab’s claim of having lost his application was a subtle way of saying his talents weren’t wanted.
July 14, 2007
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Students
Washington Update
Clinton Signs Higher Education Act Reauthorization
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities
July 14, 2007
Latinx
Setting the Record Straight About Latino Images
Heritage presumes records — tales captured for retrieval. This nation’s most relentless archive is the media — but not for Hispanic women and youth. Their images are absent.
July 14, 2007
Faculty & Staff
Central State Must Ante-Up for Faculty
Wilberforce, Ohio The administration claimed at a fiscal and political crisis left it with no choice but to take the actions it did. However, the Central State University (CSU) faculty union has won a series of legal victories over the past few weeks that could pose new financial problems for the state’s only historically Black institution of higher education.
July 14, 2007
African-American
Transforming the Study of Literature — and Ourselves
The pursuit of the study of what we now call African American literature is its own story. The teaching of this radical and radicalizing literature is a parallel story that shares all of the problems and challenges of African American presence in the academy and in this nation.
July 14, 2007
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Students
Poll Confirms that Americans Want Diversity on Campuses
Most Americans say that college students need to know about different kinds of people and how to get along with them. There also seems to be a national consensus that colleges should have diverse student bodies and faculties, as well as courses that focus on diversity.
July 14, 2007
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