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Seeking the cure – nursing program at South Carolina State University – special report: health sciences

ORANGEBURG, S.C. Facing the threat of closure, the nursing program at South Carolina State University is searching for a cure to its problem of low passing rates among graduates who take the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN).

Morehouse, community work to free Womack: Phi Beta Kappa Nominee Accused of Plotting to Overthrow Government

ATLANTA The chairman of the Morehouse College History Department is spearheading an effort to disentangle a former honor student of his from legal problems that have kept him behind bars since his arrest last December.

Teaching our youth to fish – Dr. Marvalene Hughes, President, California State University-Stanislaus – Transcript

It was Benjamin Mays who best described what Tuskegee meant to me when he said, “A college must be judged not only be excellent teachers, but by the spirit and philosophy which permeate it from top to bottom.”

Black economists: an ‘elite clan of warrior intellectuals.’

“Once upon a time there was a little girl who wanted to know why some people had jobs and others didn’t, so she took a course in economics. The textbook said that if you went to school and did the right things, you’d get a job. But she said, `that can’t be right. I have four cousins in Chicago who finished school, who finished training programs, and who still don’t have jobs.’ So she studied some more.”

Students play a major role at historic Latino march on Washington

College and university students were a major force at the first-ever national civil and human rights rally to concentrate on Latino issues. The two-day event, which included a march and a student conference, was held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Leticia Villareal, a student at Vassar and the administrative chair of East Coast […]

Building leaders: leadership development program important step for community college presidents

As a community college administrator with an eye on the presidency, Dr. Walter Bumphus wanted to ensure he would be competitive when the time came to climb the career ladder.

Technology … it’s not just for science departments anymore – implementing technology at colleges

As a graduate student at Ohio State University in the early 1990s, Dr. Leslie Fenwick had grown accustomed to having access to computers and to using her own campus-issued computer. “They were part of the landscape. Computers were just part of the university setting,” Fenwick said.

Building a cadre of Ph.D.s – scholarship program

To increase the number of African-American men with doctorates in the sciences, the 100 Black Men of America and the National Consortium for Educational Access (NCEA) have begun a new fellowship program.

Community college becomes battleground for complaint about privately funded scholarship – Northern Virginia Community College

A white male student at Northern Virginia Community College is charging that a minority scholarship program at the school violates his constitutional rights, pointing to a federal court ruling that banned a university from awarding publicly-funded scholarships exclusively to African Americans.

If You Can Walk, You Can Dance; If You Can Talk, You Can Sing: A Successful African American Doctoral Fellowship Program. – book reviews

Time out, higher education. This book has a proven model for increasing the pool of African Americans with doctorate degrees in non-traditional courses of study. With valuable resource information, this book has special importance for the administrators of traditionally white colleges and universities who are sincerely interested in providing a positive campus climate for African-American students to experience success in doctoral programs.

Spelman mission was not impossible: how college’s fund-raising drive netted $113 million

Atlanta – When the totals were in, Spelman College had not only met its “mission impossible” goal of raising $81 million, it had outdone itself — amassing a record $113.3 million.

Is the NCAA playing a numbers game? – National Collegiate Athletics Association – appraisal of graduation rates

While the National Collegiate Athletic Association has spent all summer putting a happy face on its annual Division I Graduation-Rates Report, others caution that, to avoid being misleading, the rates need to be put into perspective. Claiming that Division I student athletes who receive athletic scholarships continue to graduate at a higher rate than […]

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