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College By the Numbers

College By the Numbers When I was provost of the University of Michigan, the medical school had a student prize for medical diagnosis: the “S.S.W. Award.” The initials stood for “swift, sure and wrong.”I am reminded of it when I hear reports celebrating Texas’ “10 percent solution” — its experiment in maintaining diversity in its […]

As Different as Day and Night

As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]

Events

EventsJanuaryJan. 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th National African American Student Leadership Conference“New Dimensions of African American […]

Events

DecemberDec. 27-30, 1999Modern Languages Association115th Annual ConventionChicagoPhone: (212) 475-9972E-mail: mkraus@mla.orgWeb: www.mla.org JanuaryJan. 4-7, 2000Council on Independent Colleges2000 Presidents InstituteTucson, Ariz.Phone: (202) 466-7230E-mail: rgarth@cic.nche.eduWeb: www.cic.eduJan. 8-11, 2000National Association of Women in Education13th Annual International Conference“Advancing Women in Higher Education”New OrleansPhone: (202) 659-9330Web: www.nawe.orgJan. 6-13, 2000National Collegiate Athletic Association94th Annual ConventionSan DiegoPhone: (317) 917-6222E-mail: sbobert@ncaa.orgWeb: www.ncaa.orgJan. 14-15, 20006th […]

Noteworthy Briefs

Minority Business School Faculty Increases 50 Percent in Five YearsCHICAGO — Minority representation among the nation’s business school faculties has increased by almost 50 percent in five years, according to The Ph.D. Project.The project to attract and encourage more minorities to become business professors started in 1994. At that time, there were 294 African Americans, […]

Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, Richer

Bayou Classic Gets Bigger, RicherGo-it-alone strategy puts more than a little sugar in Grambling’s and Southern’s bowlsBy Scott DyerNEW ORLEANS — The annual Bayou Classic football game between Louisiana’s two major historically Black universities has built a reputation over the past 26 years as the biggest Black happening in America.Each year on the weekend after […]

NYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation Cessation

NYC Colleges Step Closer to Remediation CessationNEW YORK — The City University of New York has decided to bar remedial students from its four-year programs, the latest such decision by the nation’s higher education officials. On a 9-6 vote last month, the New York Board of Regents said the plan is consistent with the university’s […]

BI What’s New

The intent is “to do everything we can to connect the School of Education to the teachers of Jackson and the state [of Mississippi] as a whole,”says Dr. Ivan Banks, a professor of curriculum and instruction at Jackson State University. That is why beginning this spring, the historically Black institution will offer Classroom Management EDCI […]

Preparing to Cross the River

Preparing to Cross the River When I was growing up in Falmouth, Ky., I can remember my grandmother singing a song that put me to sleep and awakened me. The title of this song is “Shall We Gather At the River.” The final chorus still lingers in my mind: “Shall we gather at the river, […]

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the AcademyToday’s headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the achievement gap between Black and White students? How to prepare educators to teach students of color? What’s going to happen now that court-ordered […]

Events

DECEMBERDec. 1-5, 1999National Council of Negro WomenMillennium ConventionCrystal City, Va.Phone: (202) 737-0120Web: www.ncnw.comDec. 6-7, 1999The College Board’sOffice of Adult LearningNational Conference“College Students 2000: The Impact of Adult and Nontraditional Students on American Campuses”Washington, D.C.Phone: (212) 713-8316E-mail: oals@collegboard.orgWeb: www.collegeboard.comDec. 9-10, 1999The College Board’sOffice of Adult Learning National Conference“Delivering Online Courses to Adult Students: Options for Effective […]

Tech Briefs

Penn State Officials Respond to Racist E-mails UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Even though the racist e-mails that were circulating through Penn State last month only reached a relatively small number of students, the entire Pennsylvania State University community may feel its impact, according to a report in the Daily Collegian, the campus newspaper.To help deal […]

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