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Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation Rates

Iowa’s Black Athletes Lag Behind in Graduation RatesDES MOINES, IowaBlack athletes at three of Iowa’s largest colleges graduated at rates far below the national average for Division I schools, The Des Moines Register reported. Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa reported that 33 percent of Black athletes at the schools graduated within […]

A Pathway to the Presidency

A Pathway to the PresidencyStudent affairs professionals are increasingly moving into the top job on college campuses By Kendra HamiltonIf you took a random sampling of student affairs professionals, they’d all agree: without the work they do with students, campus functions would simply grind to a halt. “Student affairs professionals spend 80 percent of their time […]

Some NCAA Schools Get High Marks From Black Coaches Group

Some NCAA Schools Get High Marks From Black Coaches GroupINDIANAPOLIS The Black Coaches Association (BCA) still wants more minority hires in college football. But the group’s new report card finds that most Division I schools are increasing their efforts to include minorities in the search process.Seventeen of 28 Division I-A and I-AA schools received either […]

Arthur Ashe Commemorative Stamp Unveiled at U.S. Open

Arthur Ashe Commemorative Stamp Unveiled at U.S. OpenWASHINGTONArthur Ashe, humanitarian and world-class tennis star, will be immortalized on a commemorative postage stamp to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service in 2005. The announcement came last month during the unveiling of the stamp image as part of the Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day presented by Hess, […]

Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for Success

Study Reveals Boarding School Is Springboard for SuccessWASHINGTONStudents who attend boarding schools find greater success than their peers in college and in adult life, according to a new study conducted by the Arts & Science Group of Baltimore on behalf of The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS).For the study, the Arts & Science Group interviewed […]

NCAA Violations Cause MEAC to Strip FAMU of Championships

NCAA Violations Cause MEAC to Strip FAMU of Championships TALLAHASSEE, Fla. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference plans to take away Florida A&M University’s 2000 and 2001 football titles and nine other championships as punishment for committing 196 NCAA rule violations. The penalties were listed in a June 29 letter written by MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas and […]

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High School

University of Miami, Private School Team Up to Offer Virtual High SchoolCORAL GABLES, Fla.The University of Miami has partnered with a private Florida-based K-12 school to collaborate on an online high school. Last fall, the Sagemont School in Weston approached the university with plans for a partnership that would allow the university’s professors to conduct […]

Faculty & Staff

Back in theTrenches

Back in theTrenchesDr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane became Duke University’s eighth president when she arrived on campus in July 1993. She also became the university’s first female president. And after 11 years of leading the 12,000-student campus in Durham, N.C., Keohane is stepping down this month to return to teaching and research. Keohane has been called […]

Riding the Crest of a Wave

Riding the Crest of a WaveOne of Black Issues’ first writers reflects on the growth of a well-timed publicationBy Eileen M. O’BrienIt’s always fun to ride the crest of a wave. As one of the first writers at Black Issues In Higher Education, I quickly realized the publication had impeccable timing, covering diversity and minority-serving […]

Stanford Names Johnson Head Basketball Coach

Stanford Names Johnson Head Basketball CoachPALO ALTO, Calif.Trent Johnson, a former assistant basketball coach at Stanford University, has returned to the Palo Alto university to coach, but this time he’s running the show.Stanford announced that Johnson will replace Mike Montgomery as the head coach as of last month. Montgomery left Stanford to take the head […]

Events

JUNEJune 17-19BIHE Inaugural National Conference20th Anniversary Conference and Celebration“Benchmarks & Barriers for People of Color in Higher Education”Marriott Crystal GatewayArlington, Va. Tel: (703) 385-2981Web: www.blackissues.comJune 17-1920th Anniversary Zora Neale Hurston Society Conference “‘Fingering the Jagged Grain,’ Keeping the Pain of Pan-African and Post-Colonial Literary Criticism Alive, and Restructuring the Canon for the 21st Century” Hyatt […]

Funding Shortages Push Back Central State Football Program

Funding Shortages Push Back Central State Football ProgramXENIA, OhioFunding issues forced the delay of the return of Ohio’s Central State University Marauder football program, according to a report in the Dayton Daily News. A fall 2004 comeback was highly anticipated at the historically Black school located in Xenia, Ohio, but approximately $600,000 is needed to […]

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