Diverse Issues in Higher Education articles from December 2005

Diverse Issues in Higher Education archives from December 2005

Making the greatest impact.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
December 1, 2005... Dr. James Hildreth must be quite a man. I haven't met him personally, but our writer came back from Nashville with a very positive opinion. After reading B. Denise Hawkins' "Confronting an Epidemic," you're struck by the fact that Hildreth, a...

Federal agencies, Congress Mull Katrina aid packages: initiatives aim to return students to the classroom, rebuild affected colleges and universities.(WASHINGTON UPDATE)
December 1, 2005... With many Black colleges and other universities still reeling across the Gulf Coast, the Bush administration and African-American lawmakers are proposing new initiatives to rebuild facilities and return students to the classroom. Action in...

University of Michigan launches National Center for Institutional Diversity.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... ANN ARBOR, MICH. With a new home and acting director, and groundwork laid by some of the nation's leading experts, the University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity is poised to launch a number of initiatives to move...

Black Coaches Association issues report card on minority hiring.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... INDIANAPOLIS The University of Notre Dame received a B on the minority hiring report card released recently by the Black Coaches Association, even though the Fighting Irish fired head football coach Tyrone Willingham after the 2004 season....

Student quits Winthrop University after writing race column.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... ROCK HILL, S.C. The student who wrote a controversial column about race for Winthrop University's student newspaper last month has left the school. Christine Byington, 20, says she filed paperwork to leave after considering her...

Georgia professor receives $505,000 grant for study of African-American achievement gap in Atlanta suburb.(Dr. Jerome Morris)
December 1, 2005... ATHENS, GA. A University of Georgia education researcher hopes a new, four-year study of the experiences of African-American adolescents in a predominantly Black Atlanta suburb will help explain the reasons behind a persistent achievement...

400 Indonesian students begin house-to-house hunt for bird flu.(NOTEWROTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... BOGOR, INDONESIA At least 400 Indonesian university students are going house-to-house to check for bird flu in chickens that people keep in their backyards, said university officials last month. The students, from four universities in...

Web comments about black fraternity leave university of South Carolina examining racial climate.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... COLUMBIA, S.C. student has been kicked out of a University of South Carolina fraternity as a series of racially charged comments about a Black fraternity posted on a Web site has school officials scrutinizing the racial climate of the...

California's only tribal college still struggling after 35 years.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... DAVIS, CALIF. Thirty-five years after a group of American Indians and Mexican Americans scaled a barbed-wire fence to occupy an old Army communications site west of Davis, supporters are celebrating the anniversary of D-Q University,...

Nonprofit group says advanced economies losing lead in education: access rates to education increasing rapidly in developing countries.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... NEW YORK Developing countries are rapidly increasing the number and quality of college graduates, generating a substantial change in the relative education advantage that advanced countries have enjoyed over hundreds of years, according to...

Survey: international student enrollment at U.S. colleges leveling off this fall: educators urge national policy on international education.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... NEW YORK The results of a snapshot survey by several higher education and international education organizations released recently suggest a leveling off of overall international student enrollments at U.S. colleges and universities this...

President of struggling HBCU resigns after little more than a year.(Dr. Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, Historically black colleges and universities)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... CONCORD, N.C. The president of struggling Barber-Scotia College, which won t have any students for the winter term, has resigned and been replaced by former college president Dr. Mable Parker McLean. Dr. Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, who...

Report: few prisoners enrolling in available college classes.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... WASHINGTON Despite mounting evidence that correctional education--and postsecondary education in particular--can be a cost-effective approach to reducing recidivism, fewer than 5 percent of prisoners nationwide are currently enrolled in...

Scholars debate theory that blacks equate academic success with 'acting white'.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... CHAPEL HILL, N.C. Blacks value education and good grades just as much as Whites, a Harvard i University professor said last month, challenging the idea that an achievement gap between the races is caused by Black students' fears that doing...

UVa. hires full-time advocate for lesbian, gay students.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... RICHMOND, VA. Aiming to better serve sexual minority students, the University of Virginia has hired the school's first full-time program coordinator for its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center. Joy Pugh will manage...

University of Missouri-Columbia launches effort to recruit male teachers.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... COLUMBIA, MO. After nearly a decade as an elementary school teacher, Steven Cook is a natural. Off-key renditions of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" to start the day? No problem. Reading circles and mystery meat-fueled lunch breaks?...

Calumet College of St. Joseph ranked most diverse in Midwest.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... WHITING, IND. Calumet College of St. Joseph was ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the most diverse college in the Midwest since 2000. The magazine compared the college this year to nearly 100 public and private institutions...

Ole Miss adds Meredith statue to memorial plans.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... OXFORD, MISS. The University of Mississippi has added a statute of James Meredith, the first African-American to attend the school, to a planned civil rights memorial. University officials agreed to the change last month as a compromise...

Annual survey finds an increase in millionaire college presidents.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... WASHINGTON Curious where those extra tuition dollars are going? One place to look would be the pockets of college presidents. Five presidents have cracked the $1 million compensation barrier, including Dr. John R. Silber, the now-retired...

Justice Department threatens suit over Southern Illinois University's minority fellowships.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 1, 2005... CARBONDALE, ILL. Federal prosecutors are threatening to sue Southern Illinois University over three graduate school scholarship programs aimed at women and minorities, saying they are discriminatory. SIU "has engaged in a pattern or...

Head of NASA Research Center declines presidency of Alabama A&M.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Dr. Julian Earls, director of the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has turned down an offer to become president of Alabama A&M University. Earls, who is retiring from the center at the end of the year, sent a...

Connecting biology & behaviour: Meharry's Dr. James Hildreth aims to use new research center to find effective strategies for reaching out to African-American at risk for HIV/AIDS.(Tracking THE AIDS EPIDEMIC)(Cover Story)
December 1, 2005... NASHVILLE, TENN. Bright morning sun floods through the wall of windows in Dr. James E.K. Hildreth's new fourth-floor office at Meharry Medical College. Light bathes his corner sitting area, washes over the framed photographs of family on...

Unlikely candidates: community colleges are filling high-level vacancies by going outside the higher ed community.
December 1, 2005... The management and leadership skills Dr. Carole A. McCoy developed in big business and hospital administration closely matched the requirements for Anne Arundel Community College's opening for a chief of learning systems and technology....

Unequal exposure: environmental justice advocates mobilize to ensure minority communities are not left out of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup.
December 1, 2005... After losing her New Orleans home to Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Beverly Wright has persevered to keep a vital segment of the environmental justice movement afloat in Louisiana. Not only did Katrina's flooding displace Wright and her family, it...

Neither Enemies Nor Friends: new book explores relationships among Latinos, Blacks and Afro-Latinos.(Book Review)
December 1, 2005... Neither Enemies Nor Friends Latinos, B lacks, Afro-Latinos Edited by Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Oboler Palgrave Macmillan, April 2005 336 pp., 1-4039-6567-6:$79.95 hardcover; 1-4039-6568-4:$24.95 paperback In Neither Enemies Nor Friends:...

An incalculable loss: lack of a coherent U.S. policy on international education will have serious consequences at home and abroad.(THE GLOBAL FORUM)
December 1, 2005... Bessie Coleman wanted to be a pilot. But she was turned down by every flight school in America because she was Black and female. So the manicurist from Chicago saved her hard-earned money, learned French, obtained a passport and headed to...

A new groove: Black culture and technology development.(DIVERSE FORUM)
December 1, 2005... Black culture and technology are not often used in the same sentence, unless one wants to note their incompatibility. When talk turns to the "digital divide," Black populations in the United States and abroad frequently appear as the losers in...

New report highlights dual aspects of U.S. Hispanic broadband trends.(TECH BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... LOS ANGELES Young Hispanics, the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population, are among the leaders in the technology movement, according to a new report issued last month by the University of Southern California's Tomas Rivera Policy...

CBS acquires College Sports digital media company.(TECH BRIEFS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... NEW YORK The CBS television network organization has acquired CSTV Networks Inc., a leading digital media company devoted exclusively to college athletics. The announcement was made in early November by Leslie Moonves, chairman of CBS and...

CEO gives $35m to support Texas A&M science initiatives.(TECH BRIEFS)(George P. Mitchell)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... HOUSTON George P. Mitchell, chairman and chief executive officer of Mitchell Energy & Development, is spearheading the development of a new science initiative at Texas A&M University. He recently contributed $35 million to support an...

Kansas State University.(appointment of Dr. Kimetris N. Baltrip )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Kimetris N. Baltrip has been named assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at Kansas State University and news adviser to the K-State Collegian, the university's daily newspaper. She is a former copy editor for The New...

Camden County College in Camden.(appointent of James N. Canonica)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. James N. Canonica has been appointed dean of students at Camden County College in Camden, NJ. Most recently he was the director of academic advising at the Community College of Philadelphia. Canonica earned a bachelor's from Philadelphia...

Chinese at Pomona College in California.(appointment of Eileen J. Cheng)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Eileen J. Cheng has been named assistant professor of Chinese at Pomona College in California. She had been a visiting professor at the college since 2003. Cheng earned a bachelor's, master's and a doctorate from the University of...

School of Business and Technology at Huston-Tillotson University in Texas.(appointment of Steven Edmond )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Steven Edmond has been named dean of the newly formed School of Business and Technology at Huston-Tillotson University in Texas. He previously served as professor of international business and accounting at the school. Edmond earned a...

Coastal Carolina University in Conway.(appointment of Monair J. Hamilton)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Monair J. Hamilton has been appointed assistant professor of health promotion at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. She earned a bachelor's from York College of the City University of New York (CUNY), a master's from CUNY Hunter...

North Carolina Central University.(appointment og Janice Harper )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Janice Harper has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for university programs at North Carolina Central University. She had been serving in this position on an interim basis. Harper earned a bachelor's and a master's in education from...

North Carolina Central University.(ON THE MOVE)( Loma H. Harris )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Loma H. Harris has been appointed chair of the department of nursing at North Carolina Central University. Previously she was dean of the School of Nursing at North Carolina A&T State University. Harris earned a bachelor's from North...

Columbia College in California.(appointment of Brian Jensen)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Brian Jensen has been named special programs counselor at Columbia College in California. Most recently he served as an adjunct professor at the College of Marin in Kentfield, Calif. Jensen earned two associate degrees from the College of...

Pomona College in California.(appointment of Fernando Antonio Lozano)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Fernando Antonio Lozano has been named assistant professor of economics at Pomona College in California. Prior to his appointment he served as a lecturer in economics at the college. Lozano earned a bachelor's from the University of San...

Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina.(ON THE MOVE)(Richard L. Lucas )(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Richard L. Lucas has been named vice chancellor for institutional advancement at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Most recently he was associate vice president for advancement at Howard University. Lucas earned his...

University of San Francisco.(appointment of Linda L. Thomas)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Dr. Linda L. Thomas has been named associate dean for student development at the University of San Francisco. Previously she was an associate dean of students at Bucknell University. Thomas earned a bachelor's from Tougaloo College and a...

Prairie View A&M University.(appointment of Williams, Monica G.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Monica G. Williams has been named associate vice president for development at Prairie View A&M University. Most recently she served as director development at the university. Williams earned a bachelor's and master's from Texas Southern...

Alabama State University received a $10,000 grant from math and science department chair Dr. Wallace Maryland Jr. and his wife, Naomi, to endow the Wallace and Naomi Maryland Scholarship in the ASU Trust for Educational Excellence.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Alabama State University received a $10,000 grant from math and science department chair Dr. Wallace Maryland Jr. and his wife, Naomi, to endow the Wallace and Naomi Maryland Scholarship in the ASU Trust for Educational Excellence. The...

Albright College (Pa.) received a $4.75 million grant from Margaret K. Schumo to establish the Schumo Center for Fitness and Well-Being at Albright.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Albright College (Pa.) received a $4.75 million grant from Margaret K. Schumo to establish the Schumo Center for Fitness and Well-Being at Albright. This is the largest gift in the college's history. The gift will expand the college's planned...

The City College of New York Biomedical Engineering Department received a $750,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct cancer research and training activities in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The City College of New York Biomedical Engineering Department received a $750,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct cancer research and training activities in partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The grant...

Daemen College (N.Y.) received a $69,455 grant from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation to support Fresh Start, an early literacy project with the goal of improving the literacy of children residing in the East Side of Buffalo, N.Y.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Daemen College (N.Y.) received a $69,455 grant from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation to support Fresh Start, an early literacy project with the goal of improving the literacy of children residing in the East Side of Buffalo, N.Y. The...

The Goldman Sachs Foundation has awarded a $2.3 million grant.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Goldman Sachs Foundation has awarded a $2.3 million grant to be divided among Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.); Harvard University (Mass.); London School of Economics and Political Science (England); Princeton University (N.J.);...

The Hispanic Scholarship Fund received a $1 million grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... The Hispanic Scholarship Fund received a $1 million grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for support of the HSF Scholar Chapters and for a collaborative effort to ready 2,500 Hispanic middle-school students for admission to top universities...

Moraine Valley Community College (III.) received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Moraine Valley Community College (III.) received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The "Challenge America: Reaching Every Community" grant will help underwrite artist expenses for this year's Chicago Artist Series.

New Mexico State University alumnus Danny Villanueva has committed $2.5 million to the university's "Doing What Counts" fund-raising campaign, with $1 million of the gift designated for the NMSU Children's Village.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... New Mexico State University alumnus Danny Villanueva has committed $2.5 million to the university's "Doing What Counts" fund-raising campaign, with $1 million of the gift designated for the NMSU Children's Village. The Villanueva gift will help...

Northwestern Michigan College received a $450,000 Michigan Energy Efficiency Grant from the Michigan Public Service Commission to establish an Energy Demonstration Center at NMC's Michigan Technical Education Center campus.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Northwestern Michigan College received a $450,000 Michigan Energy Efficiency Grant from the Michigan Public Service Commission to establish an Energy Demonstration Center at NMC's Michigan Technical Education Center campus. The grant is the...

Stanford University (Calif.) received a $500,000 grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Stanford University (Calif.) received a $500,000 grant from the Goldman Sachs Foundation for the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute. The grant promotes the development of schools and individuals who have the potential to achieve...

Texas Tech University received a $100,000 grant from the San Francisco-based Bernard Osher Foundation for the TTU Lifelong Learning Community.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Texas Tech University received a $100,000 grant from the San Francisco-based Bernard Osher Foundation for the TTU Lifelong Learning Community. West Texans 55 and older will have more opportunities to expand their knowledge of various topics...

University of California, Santa Cruz received a $1.2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a new training program in the biology of stem cells.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... University of California, Santa Cruz received a $1.2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a new training program in the biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a three-year, $12.5...

University of Florida received a $750,000 grant from the Wachovia Foundation to allow the Florida Flagship Schools network to add five schools from south-central Florida.(GRANTS & AWARDS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... University of Florida received a $750,000 grant from the Wachovia Foundation to allow the Florida Flagship Schools network to add five schools from south-central Florida. The network, a statewide school-improvement partnership between UF and...

Events.
December 1, 2005... DECEMBER Dec. 27-30 Modern Language Association (MLA) 121st Annual Convention Washington, D.C. Phone: (646) 576-5000 Fax: (646) 458-0030 Web: www.mla.org JANUARY 2006 Jan. 3-6 International Congress far...

Diversity is an action verb.(LAST WORD)
December 1, 2005... It appears that a recurring goal of colleges and universities is the embracement of cultural diversity. There is a tendency among a number of faculty members, however, to view cultural diversity as a conceptual or philosophical ideal. As I...

Culture clashes in the South.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
December 15, 2005... The cover story for this edition, "Swept Into the Background," looks at one of the underreported populations affected by Hurricane Katrina--Vietnamese Americans. There is a legitimate reason why they did not receive much coverage. They simply...

Making academia less 'toxic'.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
December 15, 2005... What has changed? As someone who has been committed to, and involved with, the issue of under representation of minorities in the biomedical sciences, first at the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS), and since 1996, at CSU Dominguez...

Taking exception.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
December 15, 2005... I write to take strong exception to the assault on the integrity of Michael Eric Dyson by Paul R. Griffin (see Diverse, Nov. 3). If one examines this attack carefully, it is easy to see that most of Dr. Griffin's claims are not substantiated....

Correction.(Letters)(Correction Notice)
December 15, 2005... In "Contemplating Katrina's Chaos" in the Nov. 3 edition, Dr. Sally Malone-Hawkins' name was listed incorrectly. Diverse regrets the error.

iDpoll.
December 15, 2005... Following are the results from the Nov. 17th edition's poll question posted on the Diverse Web site. Q: The growing ratio of adjunct and other non-tenure track faculty to tenured and tenure-track faculty is a healthy trend in U.S. higher...

Stopping the raid on student aid: higher education leaders call on lawmakers to use Pell Grant surplus to expand the program, rather than divert funds to other projects.
December 15, 2005... Call it bad timing: After racking up a $4 billion shortfall due to heavier-than-anticipated student demand in recent years, the Pell Grant program now is running a surplus at the same time Congress is looking for new revenue to shore up the...

GAO study: loan repayment imperfect science.(Government Accountability Office)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... It's practically impossible to figure out the costs to the taxpayer of student loans. So says the Government Accountability Office, which compared cost estimates and re-estimates of the Federal Family Education Loan Program and the Federal...

Lawsuit challenging 'No Child Left Behind' thrown out.(WASHINGTON UPDATE)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... A judge threw out a lawsuit last month that sought to block the No Child Left Behind law, President Bush's signature education policy. The National Education Association and school districts in three states had argued that schools should...

House Committee approves welfare reauthorization package.(WASHINGTON UPDATE)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... Welfare recipients may get to spend up to an additional six hours a week in class, courtesy of the government. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved a welfare reauthorization package that would allow "workfare"...

Higher education associations provide tool to assess commitment to campus diversity.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... WASHINGTON Does my hiring record demonstrate my commitment to diversity? Do I receive reports on students, faculty and staff of color who choose to leave our institution? Do I initiate discussions with the governing board about...

New Orleans' Black colleges prepare to reopen in January: Dillard, Xavier awarded $2 million grants from Bush Foundation for recovery efforts.
December 15, 2005... BATON ROUGE, LA. Three historically Black colleges and universities in New Orleans are still reeling from the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, but are planning to resume classes in January. Hardest hit was Dillard University, a...

Ranks of millionaire college presidents rise.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... WASHINGTON Curious where those extra tuition dollars are going? One place to look would be the pockets of college presidents. Five presidents have cracked the $1 million compensation barrier, including Dr. John R. Silber, the...

George Mason University team offers counseling services to Katrina victims.(Mississippi Mental Health Counselors Association and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health offer logistics support)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... FAIRFAX, VA. George Mason University Counseling and Development Program faculty and graduate students in the Counselors Without Borders Project served as the nation's first counseling student assistance program for victims of Hurricane...

Colorado University police investigating racist hate letter sent to student leader.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... BOULDER, COLO. University of Colorado, which has recently been hit with a string of racially tinged incidents, is investigating a death threat sent to a student leader via e-mail. Mebraht Gebre-Michael, a Black student elected as one...

Southern Illinois University begins talks over fellowship dispute.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... CARBONDALE, ILL. Southern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Justice will begin talks aimed at settling a dispute over minority fellowships that federal officials call discriminatory, the university said last month. Both...

Hispanic, diversity-based Greek organizations raising cultural awareness on campus.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... TUSCALOOSA, ALA. The University of Alabama, a landmark in the fight over racial segregation, is increasingly becoming a cultural melting pot, a fact very evident in the college's Greek system, where none of the all-White fraternities or...

New Web site provides resources on HIV education and prevention.( HIVCampusEducation.org)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... WASHINGTON The Association of American Colleges and Universities Program for Health and Higher Education (PHHE) launched a new Web site last month, HIVCampusEducation.org. Designed for students, faculty and administrators, the Web site...

American Indian Law courses headed to University of Richmond.
December 15, 2005... RICHMOND, VA. The University of Richmond School of Law will offer a course examining the laws that manage relationships between the government and American Indians, lessons Virginia tribal leaders hope to replicate at campuses across...

College graduation rates moving to top of agenda for education leaders, policy-makers.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... NEW YORK For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America's higher education leaders. But what's the point, a growing number of experts are wondering, when so few who go to school leave with a degree?...

North Carolina Central University votes to move to Division I.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... DURHAM, N.C. Trustees at North Carolina Central University voted last month to approve moving the school's sports affiliation to Division I in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. NCCU, which will play Division I-AA football, will move...

University of South Carolina, Claflin University to partner on HIV/AIDS, cancer initiative: institutions to share $7.5 million grant from federal health disparities agency.(National Institutes of Health)
December 15, 2005... ORANGEBURG, S.C. Claflin University and the University of South Carolina will share a $7.5 million federal grant to eliminate health disparities in HIV/AIDS and Cancer in the Palmetto State. The funding agent, the National Center on...

University of Delaware leads public universities in study abroad participation.(ranking)
December 15, 2005... NEWARK, DEL. The University of Delaware ranks first among the nation's public colleges and universities in study abroad participation, according to a report released last month. The Institute of International Education ranked UD first...

Miles College president Rev. Albert J. Sloan dead at 62.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 15, 2005... BIRMINGHAM, ALA. The Rev. Albert J. Sloan, president of Miles College and the man who brought the historically Black institution back from the brink of closing, died Nov. 25 at a Birmingham hospital. He was 62. Sloan, a Methodist...

FBI taps UC Berkeley students for minority recruitment campaign.(Federal Bureau of Investigation, University of California)(Brief Article)
December 15, 2005... BERKELEY, CALIF. The FBI has tapped students at the University of California, Berkeley to create a marketing campaign designed to recruit more women, young people and minorities, administrators said. The agency is trying to shed its...

University of Michigan selling 1843 mansion that once sheltered fleeing slaves.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... DEXTER, MICH. The University of Michigan is moving ahead with plans to sell a 162-year-old mansion that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and once hosted two U.S. presidents and many fugitive slaves. The university...

Alcorn State's benefits from Ayers fund begin.(Alcorn State University, dining hall construction)
December 15, 2005... LORMAN, Miss. A new $12-million dining hall soon will be under construction at Alcorn State University. "It will be built fight across the street from the library and will be the centerpiece of the new Alcorn," says ASU President Clinton...

ACT selected to develop framework for new national writing test.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)
December 15, 2005... IOWA CITY, IOWA ACT Inc., best known for the exam it, gives each year to thousands of college hopefuls, has agreed to help revise a test used to measure the writing skills of public school students nationwide. The Iowa City-based...