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All Americans are Nabrit beneficiaries – James Madison Nabrit, Jr – Obituary

As the president of Howard University, I am often called on to reflect upon Howard’s unique legacy. Recently, I was privileged to address this legacy anew as we celebrated the life of Dr. James Madison Nabrit Jr., Howard’s second African American president who passed at the age of ninety-seven on December 27, 1997.

July 11, 2007

Academic turf war at East Los Angeles: move to include course on Central Americans in Chicano Studies Department meets resistance – East Lost Angeles College

Monterey Park, Calif. East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is the site of a controversy that many people have seen coming for a long time. It revolves around what appears to be an academic battle over turf.

July 11, 2007

1998 Ad

Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The evolving HBCU niche – historically Black colleges and universities

In recent years, much has been written about the challenges confronting American higher education. There is a growing interest in applying standards of accountability, and many states have reduced financial support, as colleges and universities find themselves competing with prisons and health care for the public treasury. On a variety of fronts, the nation’s colleges and universities are re-examining themselves and their value to society.

July 11, 2007

The pied piper of college golf – National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Assn. founder and Pres. Bill Dickey

Bill Dicky More Than Just a Fairway Friend to College-Bound Youth

July 11, 2007

Specializing in the air – interview with Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines managing director Lou Phillips – Interview

As Managing Director of Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines, part of Laugh Phillips’s responsibilities include recruiting students for employment, developing the concept of ethnotourism, and building relations with Black colleges and universities. He recently sat down with Black Issues to discuss these and other aspects of specialization in the fastest growing industry in America.

July 11, 2007

Library of Congress to put “African American Odyssey” on display

WASHINGTON An exhibit comprised of items from the nation’s largest collection of materials relating to African American history and culture will go on display next year at the Library of Congress.

July 11, 2007

African-American

Auctioning off yesterday – protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents

For Many Black Museums, It’s “Buy-Buy History”

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Seeing no evil – Dr Shelby Steele’s speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans – Cover Story

NEW ORLEANS Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology masquerading as serious scholarly activity, a group of conservative scholars found several things to cheer about when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) honored the authors of California’s Proposition 209 and heard Dr. Shelby Steele deliver a withering critique of affirmative action.

July 11, 2007

Race board finds consensus elusive on public schools – President’s Advisory Board on Race

WASHINGTON The President’s Advisory Board on Race recently found that no national discussion on race in public schools is complete without conservatives invoking the controversial issue of education vouchers for poor children.

July 11, 2007

Community Colleges

Whitewashing fences and campus alcohol prohibition

The recent deaths of college students in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Virginia from consuming too much alcohol are paramount tragedies which we should all work to prevent. But if we draw the wrong lessons from these deaths, they will occur again and again.

July 11, 2007

California has another proposition – Ron Unz Initiative to ban bilingual instruction

This One Would Prohibit Bilingual Education

July 11, 2007

Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! – book reviews

I’m warning you, once you open this compact collection of six razor-sharp essays, you’re going to have to stand back! Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red, male, female, straight, gay, college-educated, streetwise, conservative, liberal, whatever – it doesn’t matter. From the initial essay detailing Robin D. G. Kelley’s take on how traditional social scientists construct the ghetto, “Looking for the ‘Real’ Nigga,” to the final take, “Looking B[l]ackward: 2097-1997,” readers of Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! are literally compelled by the strength of Kelley’s arguments to identify and/or re-think their positions in the contemporary “culture wars” fray.

July 11, 2007

Chancellor of Southern University resigns amid scholarship flap – Marvin Yates

BATON ROUGE, La. The chancellor of Southern University’s Baton Rouge campus abruptly resigned in the wake of a scholarship scandal.

July 11, 2007

Can race-talk really make a difference?

By the end of President Bill Clinton’s town hall meeting on race in early December, his audience had deteriorated to platitudes and cliches. I half-expected Rodney King to jump out of the Akron audience and plead, again, “Can’t we all just get along?”

July 11, 2007

Scholarship scandal in Louisiana

Baton Rouge, La. Last fall when William “Bud” Davis, the chancellor of State University, suddenly resigned his position in the wake of charges that his office awarded nearly fifty minority scholarships to White students, many educators and politicians around the state sighed a collective relief that this most recent scholarship fiasco appeared to end as Davis departed.

July 11, 2007

Fast lane to the NFL – Carolina Panther’s Fred Lane from Lane College, Tennessee

Conventional wisdom will have you believe that players from small colleges can’t make it at the professional level because they didn’t play against a level of competition that adequately prepared them for the pros — as did the football players at top-rated programs like Florida State, Michigan, and Nebraska.

July 11, 2007

Prominence multiplied in Division I-AA: Hampton led cadre of black college hopefuls into football postseason – Hampton University

Time was, when you mentioned HU and Black college football supremacy, you were talking about storied Howard University.

July 11, 2007