Black Issues in Higher Education articles from April 1998

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from April 1998

A new script for black theater: Dartmouth conference focuses on new strategies.
April 2, 1998... Nearly two years ago, playwright August Wilson stunned the American theatre community by charging that predominately white arts organizations were guilty of undermining African American theater companies. The charges -- delivered at Princeton...

Black scientists: a history of exclusion, part 2. (includes related article)(Cover Story)
April 2, 1998... The first African American to receive a doctoral degree in the United States was a scientist. Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918) was a native of New Haven, Connecticut, who graduated from Yale University's undergraduate school in 1874,...

It's not rocket science. (finding African American undergraduates for graduate study in science) (includes related articles)
April 2, 1998... Earlier in his career, Dr. Luther S. Williams spent nearly ten years as the only faculty member of color out of seventy in his department at Purdue University. The African American microbiologist is now assistant director of education and...

Motivating faculty gets results. (recruitment for minority graduate students)
April 2, 1998... When Dr. Ted Greenwood talks about boosting the number of it under-rep presented minority doctoral holders in the sciences, there is a no-nonsense resolute quality to his voice. "Some [philanthropists] Put money in the Students' hands...

Gems of wisdom: avoiding derailment on the doctorate track.
April 2, 1998... Dr. Howard Adams has been engaged in the struggle to attract more African American students into graduate education in science and engineering for more than twenty years. In that time, he has witnessed measurable improvement in the academic...

Making mentorship count: surviving Ph.D. programs requires someone who is willing to show the way.
April 2, 1998... By his own admission, Dr. Damian Rouson's initial adjustment from Howard University to the graduate engineering program at Stanford University was difficult. "I think very few people don't doubt their competence when they come here,"...

Winning to lose. (academy losses of Black faculty to industry)
April 2, 1998... When thirty-year-old Dr. Damian Rouson completed his Ph.D. last April, the Stanford University graduate took a job at Failure Analysis Associates, a prestigious Silicon Valley engineering firm. The youngest of his mother's five children,...

Sisters in science. (few African American women in science programs)
April 2, 1998... More African American women participate in higher education than African American men, and the gap is widening. In 1995, there were 556,000 African American men enrolled as students in all institutions of higher education at all levels of...

Embracing the Tiger: The Effectiveness Debate and the Community College.
April 2, 1998... The two most important words in community college faculty and administrative lexicons these days are institutional effectiveness. For more than a decade, pressure for community colleges to prove their worth has been building among...

Bad news in Berkeley: 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions.
April 16, 1998... 800 Black, Latino students with 4.0 grades and 1200-plus SATs denied admissions Berkeley, Calif.--The dreary, still weeping sky of El Nino set a somber scene here as the University of California-Berkeley announced that it has admitted 1,079...

Countdown in California: students offer voter initiative to counteract Proposition 209. (measure to restore affirmative action)
April 16, 1998... Members of Students for Educational Opportunity, a Berkeley-based group working against the clock to restore affirmative action in education. By the end of March they had gathered 200,000 signatures to place a new initiative on California's...

In defense of diversity: videoconference examines the anti-affirmative action movement.
April 16, 1998... I find it interesting that it wasn't until the issue of race was introduced in the admission process that [preferences] became ax issue. It's not until you talk about race that we're seeing these kinds of legal challenges." Washington --...

Black scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports. (John Hoberman, 'Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race')
April 16, 1998... Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports New York -- If African Americans have become overly obsessed with sports, the engagement or lack thereof by Black...

Coaches cornered: the 1997 racial report card; the future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action.
April 16, 1998... The future of African American football coaches may fall victim to the assault on affirmative action In this year's pursuit of head coaching positions at NCAA Division I-A institutions, college sports' top competitive classification, Black...

In sports, those making the off-the field decision remain overwhelmingly White. (Coaches Cornered: The 1997 Racial Report Card)
April 16, 1998... With so many Black athletes claiming center stage in the sports universe, one might be inclined to declare that athletics is the one slice of American life where equal opportunity abounds. Some might even say that sports represent a model of...

1998 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Awards. (1998 nominees and recipients)
April 16, 1998... Six years ago, Black Issues In Higher Education established the Sports Scholars Award to honor undergraduate students of color who exemplify the standards set by tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. A scholar and athlete, Ashe dedicated his life to...

Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900.
April 16, 1998... Edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham University of Alabama Press, 1998 Tuscaloosa, Ala. 940 pages Paperback: $24.95 Cloth cover: $49.95 How is a culture -- or a nation, for that matter -- created? It is called into being at...

The public responsibility of Pan-African Studies.
April 30, 1998... As a discipline, Pan-African studies has developed a body of expertise that should, in the future, help focus public policy regarding Africa and the African diaspora, according to scholars who participated in the Pan-African Studies Conference...

Clinton's race initiative on tour: sports was focus of the latest national town hall meeting. (includes related article on higher education)
April 30, 1998... Sports provided the focus of President Bill Clinton's second town hall meeting on race relations in America. Clinton and leading collegiate and professional sports figures participated in a lively meeting and discussion, which was held at the...

Wright State president succumbs to cancer. (Harley E. Flack)
April 30, 1998... Dayton, Ohio -- Dr. Harley E. Flack, the first African American president of a major metropolitan university in Ohio, died March 29 following five-month battle with cancer. He was fifty-five. Flack had served as president of Wright State...

Chicago board fires outspoken Temple. (Black academic Ronald J. Temple)
April 30, 1998... Chicago -- Dr. Ronald J. Temple, buoyed by the support of a group of African American ministers, recently waded into the murky, shark-infested waters of Chicago politics. But the chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago system discovered his...

Building a culture of success. (New York State high school/college science enrichment program, minority students)
April 30, 1998... New York -- A new report on New York State's Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) and its college counterpart (C-STEP) shows that these enrichment programs were responsible, in the words of the outside evaluator, for "dramatically...

Public housing smarts: two universities discover a trove of opportunity in New Orleans's public housing system.(Cover Story)
April 30, 1998... New Orleans -- At night, from the third floor landing of her three-bedroom apartment, Keywanda Wiggins has a view of the glittering New Orleans skyline. Visible from her window are the bulbous Superdome, most of the city's modern high-rises,...

Sharing expertise. (Xavier University's partnership with Tulane University on public housing)(Interview)
April 30, 1998... What strengths does Xavier University bring to this partnership with Tulane University? Our faculty and students have had a strong volunteer commitment, and his has been true for the last ten years. What they brought to this partnership is...

Visual mathematics. (math for art students)
April 30, 1998... Teaching math through art seems incongruous if you believe in the "right brain/left brain" theory. But disproving this apparent incongruency is the mission that John Sims, professor and coordinator of mathematics at the Ringling School of Art...

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo under new scrutiny.
April 30, 1998... As people in Mexico and the United States commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Mexican American War, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo has come under new scrutiny from scholars in both countries. They have been examining the...

Reflecting on Robeson's artistic and sociopolitical legacy. (Paul Robeson)(Column)
April 30, 1998... If Paul Robeson were living, he would have been 100 years old on April 9. The fact that his centennial birthday is being celebrated around the world, offers us a tremendous opportunity to reflect on the man's life, legacy, and significance....

Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can't Solve Our Problems and How We Can.
April 30, 1998... James Corner, M.D., adds his name to the dozens of recent books written about the effectiveness of American schools and matters of race, culture; and intelligence. Waiting for a Miracle: Why School Can't Solve Our Problems and How We Can is a...

'Treatment' does not confer 'status.' (affirmative action)(Column)
April 30, 1998... Many opponents of affirmative action argue loudly and unflinchingly that race should no longer matter in the academy and that preferential treatment for scholars of color is divisive and unconstitutional. Somebody in the academy needs to...