Black Issues in Higher Education articles from April 2000

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from April 2000

13 HBCUs to Retain Access to Federal Financial Aid.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Thirteen of the nation's historically Black colleges and universities will retain their access to critical student financial aid programs despite loan default rates that could trigger significant penalties. Congress...

Quote of Note.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... "We must find new solutions to some of the old problems that historically Black colleges and universities face today." -Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., proposing a summit between Republican conservatives and Black college presidents.

Ed. Dept. Speaker Criticizes Republicans.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- A former teacher described Govs. George W. and Jeb Bush as racists during a U.S. Department of Education seminar on promoting diversity last month, and at least one lawmaker is demanding an explanation. Jane Elliot, an author...

Riley Urges Dual-Language Schools.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Hispanic students are twice as likely as Blacks and three times as likely as Whites to drop out of high school, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics that suggest the nation is ill equipped to deal with the...

Watts Pushes for GOP, HBCU Caucus.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- It sounds like a scene from The Odd Couple: conservative Republican lawmakers meeting with Black college presidents. But such a summit may take place if Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., gets his way. Watts, an African American...

New Bill Would Fund Leadership Institute.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- New legislation introduced last month in Congress would fund a leadership institute at Hampton University, a private, 5,700-student historically Black college in Hampton, Va. U.S. Rep. Robert Scott, D-Va., introduced the...

Martinez Loses Re-Election Bid.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- A senior member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and a longtime education advocate lost his bid for re-election last month. U.S. Rep. Matthew Martinez, D-Calif., 71, lost a primary challenge in a race for his 11th term in...

Changes Proposed for Minority Science Program.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Education officials recently proposed some major changes in the federal government's Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program. Among the changes suggested is one that would require...

Adam's Mark Settles Discrimination Suit.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... ST. LOUIS -- The Adam's Mark luxury hotel chain agreed late last month to pay $8 million, revise its policies and seek minority customers in the settlement of a race-discrimination lawsuit by the National Association for the Advancement of...

New Book Examines Bob Jones' Ku Klux Klan Involvement.(Review)
April 13, 2000... BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The founder of Bob Jones University was a Ku Klux Klan mouthpiece who preached against Catholics and foreigners in Alabama decades before his school's policies became a presidential campaign issue. At least that's what...

They're Out ... of South Carolina.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... ROCKHILLS, S.C. -- Coaches and players for Pennsylvania State University's baseball team say they will not play another regular season game in South Carolina as long as the Confederate flag continues to fly over the Capitol. Team members...

Judge: NAACP Has Standing to Challenge One Florida.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... TALLAHASEE, Fla. -- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has standing to challenge state university admissions policies banning consideration of race and gender, a hearing officer ruled late last month. Lawyers...

What's New Programs, Accreditations & Initiatives.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... Virgnia Union University has established a partnership with the National Urban League's Black Executive Exchange Program that will share learning and work experience across generations, cultivate new leaders and inspire achievement through...

Controversial Donor Wants His Money Back.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... MINNEAPOLIS -- A man who donated $500,000 to Augsburg College here filed suit against the college last month to retrieve the monetary gift, saying the college has refused to name a building wing after him because of his controversial notions....

Poor Minority Hiring Practices May Cost Nebraska College.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... LINCOLN, Neb. -- State Legislators here warned the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last month that the school will lose state funding if it fails to meet goals set by lawmakers for hiring minority faculty members. "The Legislature insists...

Regents Select Former Protester as Student Representative.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... LOS ANGELES -- A University of California at Los Angeles graduate student who once was arrested for disrupting a regents meeting to protest its affirmative action ban was selected last month as the regents' student representative. A...

Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... Professor goes on hunger strike, others say money could have been better spent BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Southern University board's recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a...

Baton Rouge College Facing Sensitivity Training.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... BATON ROUGE, La. -- The entire faculty and staff here at troubled Baton Rouge Community College, consumed for the last year by accusations of racism by both Blacks and Whites, will undergo diversity sensitivity training. "The gun is not...

California Lt. Gov. Seeks to Repair Damaged Diversity.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... BERKELY, Calif. -- As lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante has watched in dismay as Hispanic and Black enrollment at the University of California has tumbled. As a member of the university system's board of regents, he thinks he knows a...

West Virginia State Denounces Community College Plan.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia lawmakers passed a controversial higher education reform bill last month despite protests from administrators, faculty and students at a historically Black college who contended the measure could doom their...

ACE Troubleshooter.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... "The isues that we are facing are not ones that will go away, they are long-standing and deeply rooted... It is our responsibility to exert leadership. So I'm coming in and jumping in with both feet." Welcome relief and big expectations...

DO MAJORS Matter.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... As institutions enhance their curricula to stay apace with the ever-changing job market, many graduates are finding that when it came to selecting a course of study, the agony is not a necessity. There is, perhaps, no college decision that...

Tales of Major Significance.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... Process doesn't always make perfect and the final choice is not always the last option. For Jesse Willard Thompkins III, a Dean's List freshman at Columbia University in New York, the process of choosing a major is just beginning. And so...

RAFTING TOWARD NEW MAJORS.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... From "adventure sports" to "integrative management," colleges are offering an unprecedented array of new courses and majors -- but questions abound. "Mom, I've decided to major in adventure sports." Not words every mother wants to hear....

The Other March Madness: A COLLEGE `NET COMPETITION'.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... SAN FRANCISCO -- It was the other March Madness competition: a battle for millions of dollars in venture capital as the final four out of dozens of college teams focused on "Nothin' but the (Inter)Net." There were no easy layups, only one...

Study: Distance Learning also Benefits Students on Campus.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... WASHINGTON -- As colleges increased their use of the Internet to provide more distance learning classes and degrees, students on campus also reaped benefits that improved school life, a new report on the growth of college online services says....

Freshman Arrested for Online Hate Crime.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... BATON ROUGE, La. -- A 20-year-old Louisiana State University freshman was arrested last month after admitting to sending racially offensive and sexually explicit e-mail messages to a female student, authorities here say. Spencer Wong also...

Microsoft Showcases Computerized Home Without the Computer.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... REDMOND, Wash. -- Imagine coming home and having your house say hello. No, the house doesn't actually come out and say it. Instead, after it scans your retina on the porch, it unlocks the door for you. Once inside the lights come up, the...

Encyclopedias Lumber into Internet Landscape.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... Encyclopedias traditionally have been regarded by academics as second-rate sources of information, collections of summaries short on depth and authority, works that any self-respecting academic would be embarrassed to cite in a paper or...

Diversity Should be Praised, Not Enforced.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... The latest school integration case is now being chewed over by school board attorneys around the country, and it's proving fairly indigestible. No one is quite sure where it leaves magnet programs, busing programs, transfer policies or anything...

Technology, Learning and the Future of Education.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... A few weeks ago, a newly minted dot-com millionaire opined in The New York Times that higher education was hardly necessary. Why not put it all on the Internet, he asked -- the great books, stirring lectures and rigorous exams? Why not let...

The Pleasure of Academe: A Celebration & Defense of Higher Education.(Review)
April 13, 2000... The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration & Defense of Higher Education By James Axtell University of Nebraska Press, 1998 288 pages Hardcover: $40.00 Many readers of The Pleasures Academe will sympathize with author James Axtell's...

Career Consultants.(Brief Article)
April 13, 2000... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: What are some points that African American faculty and administrators should consider when mentoring students of color? CLAYTON COBB Director of Multicultural Affairs Carleton College Northfield, Minn....

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Review)
April 13, 2000... PRESIDENT DR. CALVIN W. LOWE has been selected to become the ninth president of Bowie State University in Maryland beginning in May. Lowe is currently vice president of research and dean of the graduate college at Hampton University in...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(Review)
April 13, 2000... * Duke University's new Institute on Care at the End of Life has received two gifts totaling $650,000. The Institute, founded earlier this year and based at Duke Divinity School in North Carolina, examines issue surrounding death and dying from...

Universities Need to Take a Stand and Defend Affirmative Action.(Review)
April 13, 2000... In a world preoccupied with outer appearances and organized hypocrisy, it is truly no surprise that we have seen the demise of affirmative action in higher education. I am not surprised, nor am I shocked over the Hopwood decision, Proposition...

Black Caucus Loses Bid For Budget Alternative.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Unhappy with Republican budget plans, Congressional Black Caucus members developed their own spending alternative for next year with generous increases for Black colleges, K-12 education, Head Start and other priorities. ...

Quote of Note.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... "We are blessed by the long, warm rays of a sun of a coming decade of surpluses. Compassion and vision are no longer blocked by the specter of budget deficits." - Rep. Major Owens, D-N.Y., in arguing for higher spending on education beyond...

Washington briefs ...(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Congress Hears Support For Completion Grants WASHINGTON -- Leaders of the TRIO community made their case for new college completion grants before a congressional committee late last month. The plan, part of President Clinton's budget,...

NEWS BRIEFS.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... One Florida Plan Meets More Opposition TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have voted to issue a statement criticizing Gov. Jeb Bush's program banning consideration of race and gender in university admissions...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master's degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems...

Pennsylvania Toys With Guaranteed Admissions.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Some officials worry new proposal signals abandonment of affirmative action HARRISBURG, Pa. -- In an effort to boost minority enrollment, officials at the state university system here are considering guaranteeing admission to all students...

California's Minority Enrollment Is Up, But That's Only Part of the Story.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... BERKELEY, Calif. -- The number of Black and Hispanic freshmen admitted to the University of California system has rebounded to the level it was when race and gender preferences were still in place. However, much of the recovery is because...

Governor's Scholarship Proposal Meets With Opposition.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... California Gov. Gray Davis has proposed a plan to give college scholarships to high school students who get top scores on a statewide test--even if they don't need the money--amid protests from critics who say the scheme would give college...

Cheers, Jeers Greet Daytona's Handling Of Black College Reunion.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Officials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are praising local businesses for making Black College Reunion participants feel welcome here last month. But the event left the owner of...

Gifted & GIVING.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Professional Black athletes are reaching new levels of charitable gift-giving, and higher education is reaping some of the benefits. During basketball season here at Northeastern University's Matthews Arena, a group of youngsters ages 8...

Family MATTERS.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... When it comes to coping with the stresses of being a scholar-athlete, many kids are finding that Hi, Mom! Not too long ago, the image of a Black athlete smiling broadly into a camera's lens waving hello to mom was a common occurrence....

Marching to Different Drummers.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... College marching bands appear to be failing the diversity challenge. It is impossible to imagine attending a major college football or basketball competition these days without the attendant soundtrack provided by campus marching bands....

The Fumble of A Lifetime.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Former sports-scholar's troubles turn a spotlight on the higher education community and whether officials should be doing more to groom their athletes for life off the field BOULDER, Colo. -- In 1992, Rae Carruth was given a football...

A Full Life, On and Off the Court.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Alcorn State's basketball coach travels an interesting route to 500 wins JACKSON, Miss. -- If the story of Davey Whitney s life is ever written, the fact that he reached 500 victories as a college basketball coach at Alcorn State...

Basketball Jones & The Education Game.
April 27, 2000... Editor's Note: The following poem is excerpted from Dick Barnett's book Without Rhyme or Reason The brother turned the corner and got to the air, his extension was breathtaking as he slammed with a flair. The crowd was on it feet cheering...

2000 SPORTS/SCHOLAR AWARDEES ON TOP OF THEIR GAME.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... ON TOP OF THEIR GAME An appreciation for education has long been a hallmark of the African American community. Likewise, we tend to share an appreciation for athleticism. So it should not be surprising that when athletic prowess teams with...

Point: Sports Can Build Up Black Women in Society.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... I am always puzzled by Black people who, in an earnest attempt to encourage Black youngsters to consider careers in fields other than sports, resort to comments such as, "We don't need any more Black athletes." Of course, it is true that...

Counterpoint: Slam Dunk is Not Life's Ultimate Experience.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... During the recently completed National College Athletics Association men's basketball tournament, how many times did you hear that rap about dreams of one sort or another coming true on that mystical, magical road to the Final Four? Whether the...

AFRICAN AMERICAN GOLFERS DURING THE JIM CROW ERA.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... AFRICAN AMERICAN GOLFERS DURING THE JIM CROW ERA Marvin P. Dawkins and Graham C. Kinloch Praeger Publishers 182 pages $49.95 When Tiger Woods came onto the Professional Golf Association tour in 1996, there were no full-time African American...

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICA'S GAME OF GOLF.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... AFRICAN AMERICANS AND AMERICA'S GAME OF GOLF Pete McDaniel American Golfer 170 pages $50 When Tiger Woods came onto the Professional Golf Association tour in 1996, there were no full-time African American players on the tour. Jim Thorpe,...

College Athletes Deserve Some Equity.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... In college sports, it seems that everybody gets paid except the athlete. That's a raw deal. The players provide the labor that produces winning teams, which in turn, generates heightened fan interest. As a result, football stadiums and...

Scientist Works to Give Women A Voice in the Cyberworld.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Dr. Anita Borg sees a world suffering from pronoun problems -- namely that the technological revolution sweeping the globe is too often led by "pale males" setting standards in a world where women are in the majority. ...

TECH briefs.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Web Site Matches Athletes to Colleges Westport, Conn. -- C What We C Enterprises Inc. has launched a sports-recruitment Web site that offers high school athletes another venue -- and in some cases, the only venue -- to gain exposure and...

WARNING: PCs Can Be Hazardous to Your Health.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... Unless one happens to drop on your head, personal computers can t kill you. But they can hurt you pretty badly. In fact, computers can be a pain in the neck, the back, the wrists and the eyes. Every year, nearly 2 million people suffer...

Conference Examines Digital Divide.
April 27, 2000... As an administrator and computer science instructor at West Los Angeles College, Zenobia Millet had a busy agenda last month at the Community College Foundation's Tech Ed 2000 educational technology conference in Palm Springs, Calif. Looking to...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... ACADEMIC DR. WARRICK L. CARTER has been named president of Columbia College in Chicago. He will take office July 1. He is currently director of entertainment arts for Walt Disney Entertainment. He previously served as dean of faculty and...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... * Central State University, in partnership with the Battelle Memorial Institute, has received a $50,000 grant from the Ohio Technology Action Fund to establish an Environmental Technology Incubator for the historically Black institution. The...

Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy.(Brief Article)
April 27, 2000... From the looks of things, it's all about Elian. The immigration saga has offered political intrigue and heart-tugging soap opera. Almost from the start, U.S. officials, adhering to current policy, insisted Elian should be returned to his father...