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ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships

ACLU Sues Michigan Over Merit Scholarships DETROIT — Calling the Michigan Merit Award system an “unconscionable use of public funds,” the American Civil Liberties Union here filed a lawsuit last month asking that the state be ordered to stop using a standardized test as the sole criteria for the scholarship. The ACLU says awarding the […]

Arkansas Administrator Keeping Title, Salary

Arkansas Administrator Keeping Title, SalaryFAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A University of Arkansas administrator will retain his title and salary as he takes on new duties, though controversy about the job change has not died down. When the university moved toward making Assistant Vice Chancellor Lonnie Williams director of the school’s Multicultural Center, an Arkansas Court of […]

Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of Lawsuits

Ga. Minority Scholarship Dropped Because of LawsuitsATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia has stopped awarding a prominent minority scholarship because of lawsuits targeting the school’s use of race in admissions policy. University officials say the Holmes-Hunter Scholarship, which gives $1,500 a year to a Black student with strong academic and leadership potential, was not […]

GROWTH by BEAUTIFICATION

GROWTH by BEAUTIFICATIONCampus preservation is at the forefront of Cheyney University’s new rebuilding effortsCHEYNEY, Pa. —When he peers out the window of his conference room, Cheyney University President Dr. W. Clinton Pettus sees a few things he doesn’t like. First, there is the large blue water tower that looms above the center of this rustic […]

Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black Caucus

Gates Talks Tech with Supportive Black CaucusWASHINGTON — The day before a U.S. federal judge ordered software giant Microsoft split into two companies as penalty for antitrust violations, company founder and chairman Bill Gates dined privately here with Congressional Black Caucus members in a room in the U.S. Capitol. During the luncheon, organized as a […]

The Need for Closure

The Need for Closure Mississippi HBCUs look for light at end of tunnel despite judge’s call for more other-race scholarships JACKSON, Miss. — Officials at Mississippi’s historically Black universities are not overly concerned about a federal judge’s order to use 65 percent of their endowment trust fund income to provide scholarships to attract White students to […]

Un-‘Favor’-able Times At Grambling

Un-‘Favor’-able Times At GramblingSchool’s sixth president tries to convince the board he can reverse calamitous financial problemsBATON ROUGE, La. — Dr. Steve A. Favors, the president of historically Black Grambling State University, is in the hot seat here over a scathing legislative audit.In his review of the records for the fiscal years that ended in […]

More Doctorates in the House

More Doctorates in the HouseExperts explain what’s working in postgraduate programs at HBCUs and TWIsWASHINGTON — The upward trend for African American postgraduate degree attainment remains constant. From 1992-93 through 1997-98, African American master’s degree attainment rose 8.6 percent overall and 9.7 percent at historically Black colleges and universities. Degree attainment for African Americans at […]

Neither A Pot of Gold Nor A Highway To Heaven

Neither A Pot of Gold Nor A Highway To Heaven‘All that glitters is not gold,” is a favorite adage of seasoned prospectors. “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions,” is another. The title and thickness of this book suggest that it will yield a glimmering mother lode of promising perspectives, practices and prescriptions […]

Out of the Default Danger Zone

Out of the Default Danger ZoneWILBERFORCE, Ohio — Central State University here has received a highly anticipated and quite welcome notice from the U.S. Department of Education: It is no longer threatened with being booted out of the federal student loan program.The 1,050-student school, which has had a turbulent history but is in the midst […]

Scholarship from the Stacks

Scholarship from the Stacks Former librarian leaves $289,000 to Ohio institution to create fund for studentsWILBERFORCE, Ohio — No one on Central State University’s campus here remembers much about Esther Crenshaw Bronston. After all, she retired 32 years ago, and three decades can dim the legacy of a relatively obscure reference librarian.Until now.Central State University officials […]

Report Predicts Surge in Minority Enrollment by 2015

Report Predicts Surge in Minority Enrollment by 2015PRINCETON, N.J. — Minority students are expected to swell the ranks of undergraduates over the next 15 years, pushing enrollments in higher education up by more than 2.6 million students. But while racial or ethnic minorities will represent a dramatic proportion of the new students — as many […]

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