Black Issues in Higher Education articles from April 1999

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from April 1999

WASHINGTON UPDATE.
April 1, 1999... Bill to Aid D.C. Students Gaining Support New college aid for District of Columbia students -- and improvements for the University of District of Columbia -- are moving closer to reality with valuable endorsements from the House Republican...

Basketball Players Suspended on Eve of Tournament for Alleged Academic Fraud.
April 1, 1999... ST. PAUL, Minn. -- University of Minnesota President Mark Yudof last month asked state senators for two months to investigate allegations of academic fraud in the basketball program. Yudof, speaking to the Senate Higher Education Budget...

Hampton Joins Multibillion Dollar Research Project.
April 1, 1999... HAMPTON, Va. -- In a multibillion-dollar international project that includes Hampton University, scientists will hunt sub-atomic particles in search of clues to how the universe was formed. Researchers are building a machine intended to be...

At Central State: Enrollment Applications Up, Uncollected Student Debt Written Off.
April 1, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- If fall enrollment applications are an indication, Central State University is rebounding from a fiscal and management crisis that nearly caused state officials to shut it down. Late last month, Central State had...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.
April 1, 1999... Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives North Carolina Central University has become the first historically Black college in North Carolina to offer a four-year bachelor of science degree in hospitality and tourism. The new program will...

Alabama A&M Board Cuts 28 Faculty Positions.
April 1, 1999... HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Alabama A&M University's board of trustees approved cutting 28 faculty positions at a meeting attended by more than 200 people who showed up to protest the action. Many professors canceled class on the day of the meeting...

Applications from Minorities, Women Up at The Citadel.
April 1, 1999... CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Applications from minorities who want to attend The Citadel next year are up 38 percent from last year, and female applicants have increased 27 percent. As of March 1, a total of 127 minority students have applied, with...

Sean "Puffy" Combs Gives Alma Mater Its Props.
April 1, 1999... WASHINGTON -- What do recording artist and producer Sean "Puffy" Combs and Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid have in common? Both were among the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award recipients at Howard University's 1999 Charter...

Federal Judge Decides in Favor of Georgia's HBCUs.
April 1, 1999... ATLANTA -- A federal judge last month dismissed a portion of a lawsuit that accused the Georgia Board of Regents of running a segregated system of higher education because it maintains historically Black colleges. U.S. District Judge B....

More Need-Based Grants -- and Higher Tuition -- Slated for MIT.
April 1, 1999... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Need-based scholarship grants at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will increase 12 percent next year, the school announced last month. However, tuition also will climb. Officials predicted the average MIT grant...

Renick to Lead North Corolina A&T.
April 1, 1999... GREENSBORO -- Dr. James C. Renick was elected Chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina last month. Renick has been chancellor and professor of...

Disrespecting the Dead.
April 1, 1999... DNA research on remains from the African Burial Ground Project may be lost forever because of a financial feud WASHINGTON -- Here in a laboratory at Howard University, hundreds of tiny bone fragments are offering scientists a link with...

An Open Season for College Sports?
April 1, 1999... Judge's decision ending NCAA freshmen eligibility standards may signal change in college athletics recruitment OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- This year's athletic recruiting season could be thrown into chaos after a federal judge denied the...

UDC Hostile to Mayor's Plan to Move Campus.
April 1, 1999... WASHINGTON -- University of the District of Columbia officials are reeling from the news that the city's new mayor, Anthony Williams, has proposed selling the university's valuable North-west Washington campus and moving UDC to a yet-to-be...

Pink Slips at Morris Brown.
April 1, 1999... Four months after the arrival of its new president, Dr. Delores Cross, more than one-third of the Morris Brown College faculty has either been let go or placed on probation ATLANTA -- Faculty and students at Morris Brown College are...

Generation Next.
April 1, 1999... A survey from the Southeast Policy Leaders Forum says African American college students are ready to take the leadership reigns, despite what most Baby Boomers think WASHINGTON -- The popular perception is that young African Americans...

Giving The Duke His Due.
April 1, 1999... The centennial year of Edward K. Ellington's birth has inspired dozens of American colleges and universities to convene tribute concerts and conferences devoted to Ellingtonia. But are these events a sign that "The Duke" and jazz in general...

Embracing Ellington.
April 1, 1999... Dr. John Edward Hasse awaits the day "when every school that teaches a course on Beethoven also teaches a course on Ellington." Dr. John Edward Hasse is a dedicated student of Ellingtonia. A music historian, musician, award-winning author,...

Refocusing the Arts Aesthetic.
April 1, 1999... African American performing and visual arts scholars comment on the continuing struggle to bring the work of Black artists into the full view of the academy's White majority When Dr. Melanye White Dixon joined the dance department at Ohio...

Visual and Performing Arts Degrees 1994-97.
April 1, 1999... Degrees 1994 - 97 African American Year Grand 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 Total Dance Associate's 3 ...

Correction.
April 1, 1999... In the March 18, 1999, edition of Black Issues, in The Last Word commentary, Gary Hunter was inadvertently identified as an administrator at Miami-Dade Community College instead of at Miami University (Ohio). We apologize for the confusion this...

Black Issues Quiz.
April 1, 1999... The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions...

Four Percent Is No Solution.
April 1, 1999... This testimony is presented on behalf of a coalition of civil rights organizations, including: Equal Rights Advocates, Chinese for Affirmative Action, the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, La Raza Centro Legal, the Lawyers' Committee for...

Career CONSULTANTS.
April 1, 1999... Dear BI Career Consultants: I am an African American male with a master's degree and 20 years experience in higher education. I have been attending meetings at organizations such as the Association of College and University Business...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
April 1, 1999... SWAIN TO LEAD WILLEY DR. RONALD L. SWAIN has been inaugurated as the 15th president of Wiley College in Texas. Swain has extensive experience in higher education, including vice president for institutional advancement at Shaw University in...

African American Culture and Heritage in Higher Education Research and Practice.(Review)
April 1, 1999... African American Culture and Heritage in Higher Education Research and Practice Edited by Kassie Freeman Praeger Publisher, 1998 Westport, Conn. 256 pages Hardback: $59.95 Kassie Freeman, who resides in the Department of Educational...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
April 1, 1999... * Stillman College has been awarded a $3.7 million Welfare-to-Work grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The grant will be used to assist 800 people currently on welfare to find meaningful, long-term employment and to help empower...

Winning Games and Losing Perspective.
April 1, 1999... Recently, a federal judge ruled that the NCAA cannot use minimum test scores as a basis for eliminating student athletes from eligibility and participation in collegiate sports. The judge purports that using test scores to eliminate students...

WASHINGTON UPDATE.
April 15, 1999... Congress Approves $17 Billion In Higher Ed Budget Cuts The Republican Congress in late March approved a budget plan that many critics say will force major cutbacks in higher education spending during the next five to 10 years. The...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
April 15, 1999... An Important Contribution Dear Editor: I read your editor's note in your March 4 edition and note that Black Issues has started its 15th year. I have seen progress in your publication and am one of those who has been a consistent...

Former Basketball Player Says He Got Money from Coach Haskins.
April 15, 1999... MINNEAPOLIS -- A former University of Minnesota basketball player who was kicked off the team says coach Clem Haskins gave him cash on several occasions while he was still playing. Russ Archambault, who played for Minnesota during the...

Although Granted Stay, NCAA Will Replace Freshmen Eligibility Regulations.
April 15, 1999... PHILDELPHIA -- The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late last month granted a request by the National Collegiate Athletics Association for a stay of a lower court order that would have ended the use of the NCAA's freshmen eligibility...

California Regents Approve 4-Percent Eligibility Plan.
April 15, 1999... SAN FRANCISCO -- The University of California (UC) Board of Regents has adopted a plan that makes the top 4 percent of each public high school's graduates automatically eligible for admission. The plan, approved 13-1 in committee, was...

Ayers Plaintiffs Irked; Legislators Warned About Slow Pace of Desegregation.
April 15, 1999... JACKSON, Miss. -- Plaintiffs in Mississippi's college desegregation case are angry that a federal judge did not use the issue of a four-year college program on the Gulf Coast to re-visit admission requirements they believe hinder Black...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.
April 15, 1999... The Harvard University Press, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), has produced African American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography, the first comprehensive guide to all known newspapers and magazines by...

Fewer California Minorities Apply to Medical School.
April 15, 1999... SAN FRANCISCO -- Fewer California minorities are applying to medical school, and more who do are leaving the state, according to a new study. From 1990 to 1998, the number of minority students applying to medical school dropped by 25...

Commission Opts Against Funding Increase for Minority Recruitment.
April 15, 1999... COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Against the advise of an expert committee, the South Carolina State Commission on Higher Education voted down a measure to increase the state's higher education budget to attract minorities to the state's colleges, earlier...

MIT Admits to Short-Changing Women Faculty.
April 15, 1999... CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- Officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently acknowledged a pattern of systematic discrimination against female faculty in the School of Science, one of five colleges at MIT. The acknowledgment follows...

Lyons Named President of Cal State Dominguez Hills.
April 15, 1999... LONGBEACH, Calif. -- The California State University Board of trustees last month appointed Dr. James E. Lyons St. president of CSU-Dominguez Hills. "I'm delighted to be part of the CSU system," says Lyons, who is currently president of...

U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Faculty in Teaching-Load Dispute.
April 15, 1999... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State officials do have the power to push college faculty to spend more time in the classroom -- even if it means skirting collective bargaining agreements, says the U.S. Supreme Court. In an 8-1 unsigned decision last...

Multiculturally Miffed.
April 15, 1999... Concerned that their school's diversity-centered curriculum is being threatened, students protest at De Anza College CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Some 100 students at De Anza College staged a walkout and protest last month against a potential...

North Carolina's Board Game.
April 15, 1999... Conservative challenges a law that reserves slots for minorities and women on state's college board RALEIGH, N.C. -- In North Carolina, a state with one of the highest concentrations of historically Black colleges and universities in the...

University of Michigan Prepares Its Defense.
April 15, 1999... Study, to be used in anti-affirmative action lawsuits, demonstrates the advantages of diversity for both Black and White students ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In a preview of The University of Michigan's defense strategy in two lawsuits over its...

How Far Have Women Scholars Really Come?(Review)
April 15, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Have women really come a long way in academia? The answer to that question is yes and no, according to the panel of scholars who explored the topic in the last video conference sponsored by Black Issues In Higher Education this...

NEW GAME PLAN.
April 15, 1999... Former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson has left the Hoyas, but not his commitment to preparing student athletes for successful lives A vocal opponent of fresh man eligibility standards for college athletes since their...

A Teacher of Success, Persistence, Justice, and Compassion.
April 15, 1999... In his 27-year tenure as Georgetown University's head basketball coach, John Thompson did more than just win games and graduate student-athletes. It was the early '70s, and I was a high school sports reporter for Washington, D.C.'s...

1999 ARTHUR ASHE JR. SPORTS SCHOLARS AWARDS: THEY'VE GOT GAME AND GRADES.
April 15, 1999... Black Issues has been awarding Sports Scholars Awards since December 1992. In 1994, the award was named after the late tennis great Arthur Ashe Jr. Winners are selected from nominations solicited from all accredited colleges and universities....

Discovering Paul Robeson.
April 15, 1999... When I mentioned to my grandmother that I was planning to see the Paul Robeson exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., she was very excited. "Your great-uncle introduced me to a record when we were kids called,...

Breaking Football's Color Barrier.
April 15, 1999... Texas A&M scholar/athlete Dat Nguyen faces his next big test this month, getting drafted into the pros. Meanwhile, he's keeping an eye on the big picture by pursuing a master's degree. Ask collegiate football All-American Dat Nguyen...

Black Issues Quiz.
April 15, 1999... Black Issues Quiz The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the...

The Devil Is in the Discriminating Details.
April 15, 1999... The New York Times headlines were jarring: MIT Acknowledges Bias Against Female Professors; MIT Admits Discrimination Against Female Professors. While the headlines were stunning for some, those familiar with the subtle ways of academe treated...

Black Internet Search Engine Moves Ahead.
April 15, 1999... Search Engine Moves Ahead ATLANTA -- When Black engineering graduate students at the Georgia Institute of Technology launched the Universal Black Pages (UBP) Web site in 1994, it broke ground as the first Black-oriented Internet search...

Career CONSULTANTS.
April 15, 1999... Dear BI Career Consultants: I would like to teach at the community college level but have no teaching experience. I have a bachelor's degree In English, a master's degree In secondary education, and 18 hours of graduate study In English....

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
April 15, 1999... TEMPLE TO HEAD PERALTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT DR. RONALD J. TEMPLE has been named chancellor of the Peralta Community College District in Oakland, Calif. Previously the president of community colleges in Detroit and Philadelphia, his...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
April 15, 1999... * Case Western Reserve University has been awarded a $4.4 million bequest from the estate of alumnus Sarah Cole Hirsh. Income from the endowment will be used to establish the Sarah Cole Hirsh Institute for Best Nursing Practices Based on...

WASHINGTON UPDATE.
April 29, 1999... Clinton Outlines Campus Hate Crime Initiative The unfolding conflict in Kosovo and the murder of a gay Wyoming college student last year have prompted President Bill Clinton to propose more reporting of hate crimes on college campuses. ...

Minority and White Enrollment Up at University of California.
April 29, 1999... BERKELEY, Calif. -- The number of Black and Hispanic students admitted to the University of California (UC) rebounded in the second year without affirmative action, an increase credited to strong recruitment and a more comprehensive application...

Howard University to Get $2 Million for Communications Chair.
April 29, 1999... WASHINGTON -- In one of the largest corporate gifts earmarked for the [toward University School of Communications, Time Warner Inc. announced late in March that it is donating $2 million to endow a professorship in media and entertainment...

Figure in Basketball Team's Academic Scandal Granted Leave.
April 29, 1999... MINNEAPOLIS -- A key figure in the investigation into alleged academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program has been granted disability leave from his job as the team's academic counselor. Alonzo Newby's attorney,...

Commissioner Calls Colorado's Diversity Efforts Almost `Insulting'.
April 29, 1999... DENVER -- Colorado's colleges and universities have fallen far short in efforts to boost minority enrollment, offering vague affirmative action plans that are "almost insulting," a state education commissioner says. Most institutional...

Judge Throws Out City's Black College Reunion Traffic Plan.
April 29, 1999... DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The NAACP and several Black college students convinced a federal judge to stop the city's plans to restrict car access to city beaches during the Black College Reunion earlier this month. However, despite what had...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.
April 29, 1999... Manatee Community College in Bradenton, Fla., has been chosen as the permanent site of the Family Heritage House collection of African American historical materials. The collection contains books, photographs, and video and audio tapes of and...

Frat Members Claim Administrator Was Present at Hazing Incident.
April 29, 1999... OXFORD, Pa. -- Some members of a fraternity involved in a hazing incident claim that a top Lincoln University of Pennsylvania administrator was present when pledges were allegedly beaten and verbally abused. The allegations come seven...

Mayor Would Replace `For Sale' Signs with `For Rent' Signs at UDC.
April 29, 1999... WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Mayor Anthony A. Williams has abandoned his plans to sell the University of the District of Columbia's 25-acre campus in an affluent, White neighborhood of Northwest Washington. But he has not given up the...

Researchers Taking A Second Look at Southwest's Mexican Americans.
April 29, 1999... LOS ANGELES -- Sociologists are revisiting a ground-breaking study on Mexican-Americans that chronicled the social mobility and economic disadvantages of the so-called "invisible minority." The Mexican American People: the Nation's Second...

Native Americans Win Trademark Ruling.
April 29, 1999... WASHINGTON -- In a ruling that could affect the sports programs at many institutions of higher learning, a three-judge trademark panel earlier this month ordered the cancellation of seven trademarks owned by the National Football League's...

North Carolina HBCUs May Get Compensated for Past Racism, Funding Inequities.
April 29, 1999... RALEIGH, N.C. -- The state would pay historically Black North Carolina universities millions of dollars to compensate for past racism and funding inequities under a bill proposed by a Durham legislator. Rep. Mickey Michaux's measure would...

Native Americans Call for Immediate Return of Remains.
April 29, 1999... LINCOLN, Neb. -- A representative of an American Indian tribe says he wants the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to immediately return Native American bones in its archaeological collection -- seven months after UNL Chancellor James Moeser signed...

Fired Technical College President Hired By Alabama State.
April 29, 1999... MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A state lawmaker who has been trying to regain his job with the state's two-year colleges has been given a $50,000-a-year contract with Alabama State University. Rep. Thad McClammy's contract was approved by the Alabama...

Illinois Added to Anti-Affirmative Action Hit List.
April 29, 1999... CHICAGO -- The fight over affirmative-action programs designed to bring racial diversity to university campuses may be headed to Illinois. A Washington-based group whose research has fueled attacks on affirmative action in California and...

Bookin' It.
April 29, 1999... CLARK ATLANTA PREPARES TO OPEN WHAT WILL BE THE SECOND UNIVERSITY PRESS OPERATED BY A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY ATLANTA -- This summer, Clark Atlanta University (CAU) will enter a world that only one historically Black college has...

Damage Control.
April 29, 1999... ALTHOUGH MINORITY ENROLLMENT IS ON THE RISE IN TEXAS, HIGHER EDUCATION OFFICIALS SAY THAT ACHIEVING DIVERSITY WILL BE A CONTINUING STRUGGLE CANYON, Texas- The admissions director at West Texas A&M University remembers her reaction to the...

Race and Space.
April 29, 1999... DOCUMENTING THE DISAPPEARING BLACK PRESENCE IN AMERICAS ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE Charlottesville, Va. -- How do you make the invisible visible? Well, you might try consulting a magician, or metaphysician, or a priest. Or you might take the...

ReSearching Fatherhood.
April 29, 1999... FINDING WAYS TO INTEGRATE POOR, UNWED FATHERS INTO THEIR CHILDREN'S LIVES IS THE FOCUS OF A GROWING FIELD OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH They are the nation's invisible men--three million poor fathers who hold low paying jobs, if they hold jobs at...

Father Figures.
April 29, 1999... THERE ARE 10 MILLION ABSENTEE FATHERS IN THE UNITED STATES. ROUGHLY 3 MILLION OF THESE FATHERS ARE POOR, 2.2 MILLION OF WHOM PAY A SOME CHILD SUPPORT IN TOTAL, ABSENTEE FATHERS PAY APPROXIMATELY $17 BILLION A YEAR CHILD SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING...

For Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, Saving `Fragile Families' is Personal.
April 29, 1999... There is a statistic that haunts the Ford Foundation's Dr. Ronald B. Mincy Sr. Seven out of 10 of America's Black children are born out of wedlock. "Black people will never reach economic parity if Black children have to depend on one...

Still Exiled After All These Years.
April 29, 1999... THEY REFUSED TO CALL HIM `MISTER,' AND FOR DR, PRESTON T KING, THE REST IS HISTORY Like most scholars, Preston T. King has had several titles during his lifetime. When he completed his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics in 1966, he...

Black Issues Quiz.
April 29, 1999... The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions...

New Report Explores Higher Education's Digital Divide.
April 29, 1999... In recent years, the federal government, community groups, and other organizations have warned Americans about the growing "digital divide" occurring as Internet and computer usage increases in society. Government agencies, such as the National...

Demonstratively Genius.(Review)
April 29, 1999... When you mention the name of novelist Walter Mosley, Easy Rawlins comes to mind. In Easy Rawlins, Mosley has given us a slick, streetwise, homeboy detective we proudly embrace as one of our fictitious heroes. In Black Genius, the make-believe...

Professor Wins Reverse Discrimination Lawsuit.
April 29, 1999... SAN FRANCISCO -- A lecturer denied tenure has been awarded $2.75 million for reverse discrimination after a college dean allegedly said a White man would be hired "over my dead body." A Superior Court jury voted 11-1 in favor of Howard E....

Career CONSULTANTS.
April 29, 1999... Dear BI Career Consultants: I want to become head of my department, but I've been having trouble persuading my colleagues that my expertise extends beyond subjects pertaining to people of color. What would you suggest? DR. RODERICK J....

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
April 29, 1999... BUCK TO LEAD UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-BOTHELL DR. WARREN BUCK has been appointed chancellor and dean of the University of Washington-Bothell effective in late summer. He is presently the director/principal investigator of Hampton...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
April 29, 1999... * Claflin College has received a $1,000,000 challenge grant from the Bush Foundation. In support of the "Campaign for Claflin College, the Bush foundation will match dollar for dollar -- up to $1,000,000 -- all donations received by Claflin...