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Eyewitness To the Changing News Media

Eyewitness To the Changing News MediaVeteran journalist and professor Lee Thornton shares her views on the erosion of public trust in the news media and the role of journalism education in repairing that imageBy Ronald RoachMore than ever, the American news media are under public scrutiny for the way individual reporters conduct themselves, for how […]

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Desperate Times Call For Desperate MeasuresIn our annual journalism edition, we always take a look at how the industry is faring on the recruitment and retention of minority journalists. This year’s American Society of Newspaper Editors’ annual newsroom census reports a nearly half of one percentage point increase in diversity in U.S. newsrooms, making it […]

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship

TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]

Republican Plan for Proprietary Colleges Draws Fire

Republican Plan for Proprietary Colleges Draws FireShould for-profit, proprietary institutions be considered in the same way as traditional nonprofit schools? The House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing June 16 to consider how federal funding is doled out to proprietary schools under the proposed College Access and Opportunity Act, a […]

Report Dubs ’90s ‘Decade of the Community College’

Report Dubs ’90s ‘Decade of the Community College’By Kathleen Kennedy ManzoDubbing the 1990s the “Decade of the Community College,” a new report from the American Council on Education (ACE) says public two-year colleges saw a bigger enrollment boom during that decade than other higher education institutions did.Enrollment at public two-year colleges jumped 14 percent between […]

Events

JULYJuly 21-25National Urban League2004 Annual ConferenceDetroitE-mail: urbanleagueconference@nul.orgJuly 25-27Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA)Educational Facilities Leadership Forum 2004Marriott Wardman ParkWashington, D.C.Web: www.appa.orgJuly 29-Aug. 1NCEA 2004 National Conference“‘With All Deliberate Speed’ — Social Justice and the Future of Public Education”University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaWeb: www.nceaonline.orgAUGUSTAug. 1-6National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)Academic Advising Summer InstituteHyatt RegencyMilwaukeeWeb: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/index.htmAug. 4-62004 Merlot International […]

California Tribe Presents $30,000 in Scholarships To American Indian Students

California Tribe Presents $30,000 in Scholarships To American Indian StudentsMORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION, Banning, Calif.Creating a new program designed to provide financial support for California American Indian students statewide, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians launched a scholarship program unique to the state. Three American Indian students were the first recipients of this innovative effort when […]

Selected Community Colleges to Participate in Initiative To Increase Student Success

Selected Community Colleges to Participate in Initiative To Increase Student SuccessINDIANAPOLIS Twenty-seven community colleges in five states will participate in “Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count,” a new initiative designed to enhance the academic success of low-income and minority students. Each college will receive a $50,000 investment grant to develop plans for addressing this challenge […]

Demonstrating Student Success

Nation’s Capital Sees Huge Demand for School Vouchers

Nation’s Capital Sees Huge Demand for School VouchersDemand for access to the nation’s first federally funded school voucher program has proved overwhelming in the nation’s capital, due in large part to parental frustration with its troubled public education system. The Washington Scholarship Fund said early last month it had 2,650 applications from District of Columbia […]

Events

JULYJuly 6-10National Association of Black Accountants2004 Annual ConferenceOrlando, Fla. Tel: (301) 474-NABA Web: www.nabainc.orgJuly 14-17National Conference on Student Retention18th Annual ConferenceHyatt RegencyNew Orleans Web: www.noellevitz.comJuly 21-25National Urban League2004 Annual ConferenceDetroitE-mail: urbanleagueconference@nul.orgJuly 25-27Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers(APPA)Educational Facilities Leadership Forum 2004Marriott Wardman ParkWashington, D.C.Web: www.appa.orgJuly 29-August 1NCEA 2004 National Conference“‘With All Deliberate Speed’ — Social […]

Ball State Launches Journalism Web Site

Ball State Launches Journalism Web SiteMUNCIE, Ind.Ball State University has created a Web portal to assist high-school journalism students and educators, providing information on standards, diversity, integrity and knowledge of First Amendment issues. The portal was developed by Ball State’s Journalism Institute for Digital Education, Activities and Scholarship (J-Ideas) and may be found online at […]

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’Twenty legal and legislative milestones in higher educationThis timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education almost as long as Black Issues In Higher Education has been in print. The ongoing legal battles have primarily involved the further desegregation of schools and the use of […]

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