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Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black Males

Courting Success: A New Method for Motivating Urban Black MalesDespite the great strides Black males have made over the last several decades in education, too often we are reminded of their struggle by statistical publications, media depictions and entertainment caricatures that hypothesize their gradual extinction from mainstream society. This extinction from society is shown to […]

Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing Field

Coaching: Colleges’ (Un)Level Playing FieldThe high-profile hiring of Tyrone Willingham as the head football coach at Notre Dame University earlier this year ended an extensive — and controversial — search at the prestigious institution. Although the hiring of an African American by the nation’s most storied football program was significant, the total number of Black […]

Madness Beyond March

Madness Beyond MarchThe sports world is one of many windows into American life at which to view race relations. And many people, particularly African Americans, do not like what they see. On one hand, athletics, like the entertainment industry, has been the ticket to fame and fortune for relatively few young Black men and women. […]

A Real Team Player

A Real Team Player Wofford College’s Ben Foster makes doing for others a daily priority and a future goal.By Lydia LumPicture the average running back, sprinting down the field, rushing yards and scoring touchdowns. Then picture Wofford College’s Ben Foster, who is better known for his blocking than for rushing and scoring — a fact […]

Balancing Books and the Beam

Balancing Books and the BeamMaryland gymnast prioritizes by putting academics first.By Eleanor Lee YatesWhen Carlla Johnson was very young, her parents enrolled her in a variety of classes. She took ballet, piano and gymnastics, among other things. But within a few years it was evident that Johnson, known as Kit, had a real talent and […]

Old Problem, New Solution?

Old Problem, New Solution?Can programs such as the NCAA’s Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males boost the numbers of Black head coaches, athletic directors?By Pamela BurdmanUntil a month ago, basketball coach Nolan Richardson could have been in line to become one of the few Black athletic directors in the NCAA’s Division I. His boss at […]

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?

What Ever Happened to the Conscientious Black Athlete?And is the Black community expecting too much from today’s sports stars?By Ronald RoachCharles Thomas and Terrence Jason Welton came of age in the Michael Jordan era. As NCAA Division I-A basketball players during the 2001-02 season and in previous years, Thomas and Welton reached a pinnacle of […]

2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars

2002 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports ScholarsGiving it Their Best ShotExcelling in academics, athletics and service to the community is a challenge that very few student-athletes can master. The late tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. mastered all three, which is why Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholar Award in his honor. This annual […]

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Earlene Armstrong, a professor of entomology at the University of Maryland College Park, has been selected by President Bush as one of 10 national recipients of the 2001 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Armstrong earned bachelor’s and master’s from North Carolina Central University and a doctorate from Cornell […]

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball Program

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball ProgramTAMPA, Fla.An 11th woman has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the University of South Florida and its former women’s basketball coach, claiming racist treatment in the program. Last month Iris Fleming became the latest player to file suit in the case and her attorney, Jonathan Alpert, promised that […]

SLOW BUT STEADY

SLOW BUT STEADYadvocates seek ways to stimulate top-level participATION among minorities IN COLLEGE AND PROFESSIONAL GOLFFormer Stanford University standout Tiger Woods has single-handedly crushed all racial stereotypes about Blacks’ ability to play golf at the highest collegiate and professional levels. But while Woods’ success has spawned more interest in the game among Blacks, there’s no […]

Notre Dame Hires First Black Head Coach

Notre Dame Hires First Black Head CoachSOUTH BEND, Ind.Notre Dame has hired Stanford’s Tyrone Willingham to coach one of the most widely followed college football programs in the country. Willingham becomes the first Black head coach in any sport at Notre Dame, which is looking to move past the embarrassment of its previous coach’s resignation […]

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