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Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public Colleges

Lawmakers Consider Shifting Aid From Ivies to Public CollegesBy Garry BoulardA long-simmering, trans-regional dispute is pitting mostly Southern and Western Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives against their Republican and Democratic counterparts from the East over the way campus-based federal aid is distributed.Rep. John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on […]

Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop Generation

Making Some Noise: The Academy’s Hip-Hop GenerationScholarship on the genre moves beyond a project of legitimization into a more self-critical, challenging realmA hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference?The congressmen’s […]

Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural Impact

Decoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural ImpactScholars are poised to take a close look at the influence of hip-hop on the social identity, values of today’s youth.By Ronald RoachAs a cultural movement, hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people, especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand, there are […]

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton College

Pioneering Cellist to Head Wheaton CollegeNORTON, Mass.Wheaton’s board of trustees has appointed Dr. Ronald Crutcher, provost of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, as the seventh president of Wheaton College. In taking Wheaton’s highest post, Crutcher becomes the first African American to lead the national liberal arts college. It will be the latest pioneering role for […]

Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing Participation

Change to Education Law Eases Student Testing ParticipationFor the fourth time in as many months, the Bush administration is easing the restrictions of its education law, this time in the area of testing. The latest move is to reduce the number of students a school may test without running afoul of the law.The No Child […]

Creating a Successful Student-Athlete

Creating a Successful Student-AthleteDiscipline, focus and hard work are just a few attributes, says advising expert Dr. Ruth Darling By Kendra HamiltonCritics of big-time college sports have been working for decades to control the rampant rise in commercialization on campus — and to hold the line on academic integrity. But the balancing act is a […]

Training for the Ph.D.

Training for the Ph.D.National conference brings together first-generation college students on the road to a doctoral degreeBy Cassie ChewCOLLEGE PARK, Md.From as early as the third grade, Kimberly Sellers knew she wanted to earn a doctoral degree. So year after year, when her father brought home the issue of Black Issues In Higher Education listing […]

Academics, Athletics and Life Skills

Academics, Athletics and Life SkillsAvid Black Issues’ readers know that in early April we honor outstanding students of color who have excelled both in the classroom and on the court, track or field with our annual Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards. The Arthur Ashe edition is a favorite of many scholar-athletes, parents, coaches and […]

The War Over Internet Piracy

The War Over Internet PiracyFearing lawsuits, college officials crack down on student abuse of university-owned IT systems.BY PETER GALUSZKASitting in a booth at Jones Dining Hall at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Quintus Ferguson and Dawn Diggs munch on lunchtime French fries and ponder the economics, convenience and ethics of pirating music on the Internet.“A […]

Microsoft Group Holds Technology Day for Minority Students

Microsoft Group Holds Technology Day for Minority Students REDMOND, Wash.Blacks at Microsoft (BAM), an African American employee organization at the Microsoft Corporation, held its annual Blacks at Microsoft Minority Student Day (BMSD) last month to encourage broader access to technology and education. Jeff Raikes, Microsoft group vice president of productivity and business services and executive […]

Whites-Only Scholarship Recipient Donates Award to Charity

Whites-Only Scholarship Recipient Donates Award to CharityBRISTOL, R.I. The Roger Williams University student who received a Whites-only scholarship last month said he will turn the money over to charity, after backlash directed at him and his college. Adam Noska, 20, of Weymouth, Mass., announced last month that he would donate the $250 scholarship from the […]

New Program to Fund Graduate Research in Education

New Program to Fund Graduate Research in EducationThe U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently announced a new program to fund graduate training programs in the education sciences. These programs will train a new generation of education researchers capable of producing scientific evidence to guide education policy and classroom practice. Such evidence […]

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