Black Issues in Higher Education articles from February 1998

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from February 1998

Back from the brink. (averted crisis for Central State University, Ohio)
February 5, 1998... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- Central State University (CSU), which only seven months ago faced a very real threat of extinction from Ohio legislators, has emerged from a financial and political crisis and is showing strong signs of renewal. ...

Temple's tenure in the Windy City in a tailspin. (Ronald J. Temple, chancellor of Chicago, Illinois city colleges)
February 5, 1998... CHICAGO -- The meeting of the City Colleges of Chicago board here earlier this month was full of all the pleasantries and light banter of a typical business meeting. But while he sat in a room amid his staff, colleagues, and the board...

Colorado researchers seek more effective public policy role. (Latino/a Research and Policy Center, University of Colorado-Denver)
February 5, 1998... DENVER -- In perhaps the first event of its kind, educators and researchers from the University of Colorado-Denver's Latino/a Research and Policy Center held a symposium on legislation, research, and its impact on the Latino community. The...

The word from Moses. (educator Yolanda T. Moses)(Interview)(Cover Story)
February 5, 1998... "WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT AN INSTITUTION BECOMES THEIR REALITY UNLESS THAT IS TURNED ON ITS HEAD." When Dr. Yolanda T. Moses assumed the helm of the City University of New York's City College of New York (CCNY) in 1993 she set about the...

Breaking Thurgood Marshall's promise. (declining minority enrollment in higher education)
February 5, 1998... Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal...

History as told by ... professor proclaims his 'Amistad' ancestry. (Samuel Hingha Pieh; includes related articles)
February 5, 1998... Samuel Hingha Pieh grew up in Sierra Leone along with his five brothers; and sisters in a small city on the West African country's coastal plains called Taiama. As a youth, Pieh, who is now an assistant biology professor at the State...

Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils.
February 5, 1998... As a Black female psychologist who has worked in many settings -- most recently in a university setting -- and as a student who attended a predominantly White university in the Northeast, I can vividly recall the feelings of belonging and...

Resting on the box into which we have put Dr. King. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
February 5, 1998... I don't know how many cities, workplaces, and university campuses had Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. Don't know how many sang and swayed to songs like "We Shall Overcome" and "We Shall Not Be Moved." Don't know how many times Black...

Through these eyes. (photographs of P.H. Polk)(Illustration)
February 5, 1998... From 1939 until his death in 1984, Prentice Herman Polk taught It photography at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) and was the official Campus Photographer. In 1933, he became chair of the university's photography department. Polk...

"This isn't working!" New York's mayor intends to take city's community colleges out of the remediation business. (Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani)
February 19, 1998... New York -- In a starting pronouncement, New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called on the city's six community colleges late last month to halt all remedial education. Giuliani contends that under-prepared students do not belong in a...

University of California aims to raise transfer rates by 38 percent.
February 19, 1998... San Francisco -- This state, which boasts the nation's largest two-year college system and one of the best community college student transfer rates, thinks it can do even better. California has been a leader in encouraging students to...

HBCUs, HSIs at odds over Title III criteria. (aid in doubt at Hispanic and Black-serving educational institutions)
February 19, 1998... The Clinton adminstration is touting a new Hispanic Initiative that targets both students and colleges, and may leave some tough decisions for congressional leaders and educators of color. The February 2 plan rekindles a debate about the...

The new faces of Vassar. (minority undergraduate transfer students) (includes related article)
February 19, 1998... With only a few thousand African American and Latino high school students scoring 1310 and above on SAT tests, selective colleges often find themselves -- scholarship money in hand -- colliding into one another as they attempt to lure these...

The road oft taken. (transfer-student figures difficult to track)
February 19, 1998... Evidence arrives in tantalizing dribs and drabs: * Almost 64 percent of juniors and seniors at Arizona State University have transfer hours from community colleges. * Half of all the students receiving engineering degrees from the...

Transfer and dropout statistics don't tell the whole story.
February 19, 1998... Anyone who looks at transfer rates from community colleges would be well advised to be prepared for dismal reading. Dr. Arthur M. Cohen, the head of the ERIC Community College Clearing House, hads kept a careful watch on transfers for...

Freshman-year experience. (preparing freshmen for college and universities)
February 19, 1998... Dr. John N. Gardner remembers a time when colleges and universities paid little attention to the plight of freshmen adjusting to the rigors of college life. At the University of South Carolina (USC) in 1970, the neglect of students --...

ACE adopts diversity statement. (American Council on Education)
February 19, 1998... America's colleges and universities differ in many ways. Some are public, others are independent; some are large urban universities, some are two-year community colleges, others small rural campuses. Some offer graduate and professional...

Mississippi appeal refused. (Ayers v. Fordice, college admission standards and black enrollment)
February 19, 1998... The refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an appeal by plaintiffs in the long-running Ayers v. Fordice case has given Mississippi state officials breathing room to prove that a controversial college admissions plan is not reducing...

Black College Student Survival Guide.
February 19, 1998... With retention rates for Black college students hovering well below the 50 percent mark at many campuses across the country, an audit -- conducted with a fine-toothed comb -- of the factors that lead to the success or failure of a student...

Cultivate academic persistence - now!
February 19, 1998... Helping students to remain n school and to reach their educational goals is one of the many challenges facing community colleges. While it is important to help all students, the needs of the neglected minority population require special...