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New Study to Examine Effects Of Alternative Loans on Financial Aid Policy

New Study to Examine Effects Of Alternative Loans on Financial Aid Policy WASHINGTONThe Institute for Higher Education Policy, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) and The Education Resources Institute (TERI) announced the launch of a research project that will examine the dramatic increase in privately funded, or alternative, student loans and the […]

What’s at Stake for UVa?

What’s at Stake for UVa?University president weighs in on the campus’s current racial climate and ongoing efforts to strengthen its multicultural milieu.By Kendra Hamilton The following Q&A session with the University of Virginia’s president, Dr. John T. Casteen, follows news reports that the venerable state school, which appeared to have forged a bright multicultural future […]

Survey Shows College Web Sites Emphasize Online Admissions

Survey Shows College Web Sites Emphasize Online Admissions IOWA CITY, IowaWhile the majority of colleges and universities provide admissions applications along with detailed admission and cost information on their Web sites, far fewer provide online financial aid and scholarship forms, specific information for parents, or online orientation programs, according to the 2002 National Enrollment Management […]

A Head for Business

A Head for Business Shawnta FridayTitle: Associate Professor, Management, Florida A&M University, School of Business and Industry, Tallahassee, Fla.Education: Ph.D., Management, Florida International University; Master of Business Administration (MBA), Florida A&M University; B.S., Business Administration, Florida A&M University Age: 35When Shawnta Friday was an undergraduate in the School of Business and Industry at Florida A&M […]

Art Reflecting Life

Art Reflecting Life Michael Ray CharlesTitle: Associate Professor of Art, University of Texas at AustinEducation: Masters of Fine Arts, University of Houston; B.A., Advertising Design, McNeese State UniversityAge: 35“Spike denies it,” says Michael Ray Charles when asked if his 1997 painting “Bamboozled” inspired Spike Lee’s film of the same name, but the artist isn’t sure […]

UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past

UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.University of Virginia officials say it is time for incoming students to learn about their school’s segregated past and how to be sensitive to classmates of all backgrounds. Administration officials say they became aware of the need to do something more about race on campus after students came […]

First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming

First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming LARAMIE, Wyo.The first historically Black fraternity at the University of Wyoming has received its charter after originally organizing on campus five years ago. Phi Beta Sigma now has seven active undergraduate members and four graduate student members, according to Clarence Neasman, president of the chapter and a […]

Black Students Accused In Racist Graffiti Incident

Black Students Accused In Racist Graffiti Incident OXFORD, Miss.Three Black students at the University of Mississippi could face expulsion for scribbling racist and obscene graffiti on dormitory doors of other Black students, officials say. A fourth Black student also is being investigated in connection with the Nov. 6 incident at Kincannon Hall, according to the […]

Howard Celebrates Another Rhodes Scholar

Howard Celebrates Another Rhodes Scholar WASHINGTONClassics major and political science minor Marianna Ofosu has given Howard University the distinction of producing two Rhodes Scholars in just four years. Carla Joy Peterman received the award in 1999. That same year, Ofosu began her career at Howard as a National Achievement Scholar. Thirty-two American college students were […]

The Republican Sweep And Higher Education

The Republican Sweep And Higher Education By Julianne Malveaux A full month after the November debacle, political pundits are still deconstructing the Democrat’s embarrassing loss at the polls. While the Republican “sweep” could hardly be called a mandate (some Senate races were decided by fractions of a percentage point), the outcome is that the Republicans […]

Survey Challenges Notions About African American, Hispanic Achievement

Survey Challenges Notions About African American, Hispanic Achievement EVANSTON, Ill.Academic aspirations and student attitudes about school differ only slightly among African American, Hispanic, Asian and White students, according to a survey conducted by the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN). Based on 40,000 responses from high-school students in 15 relatively affluent school districts across the country, […]

UVA Latest in String of Blackface Incidents

UVA Latest in String of Blackface Incidents CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.Two University of Virginia fraternities tarnished in a “blackface” incident at a Halloween party will not be expelled from campus, according to a Dec. 2 ruling by the school’s Inter-Fraternity Council. While blasting the members of Zeta Psi and Kappa Alpha Order for “an apparent historical blindness […]

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