Black Issues in Higher Education articles from February 1999

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from February 1999

Date Rape, Hate Crimes May Get Hill Attention.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... Date rape and hate crimes affecting college students are the locus of a new legislative initiative from Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), a Congressional Black Caucus member. One of her new bills would raise the maximum penalties for...

Clinton Initiative Targets Social Promotion Policies.(Bill Clinton)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... President Bill Clinton wants to give school districts a financial incentive to end the practice of social promotion. Social promotion involves allowing primary and secondary school children to advance a grade level even if they lack the...

HBCUs, Others Eligible for Science Grants.(U.S. Education Department grants for minority science students)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... The U.S. Education Department (ED)is offering about $4 million in a new grant competition to encourage science and engineering improvements among students of color. The grants under the Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program...

Meharry Welcomes Vanderbilt as New Managing Partner of Hospital.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... NASHVILLE Tenn. -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center wants to become a third player in the year-old partnership between Metro General Hospital and Meharry Medical College. Under the plan announced last month, Vanderbilt would run the...

3 Republican Nominees Withdrawn from Consideration for UC Regents Board.(Carol Chandler, John Hotchkiss, Ralph Ochoa)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... SAN FRANCISCO -- University of California (UC) regents marked a changing of the political guard last month with formal farewells to three Republican appointees whose nominations were withdrawn by Democratic Gov. Gray Davis. Several regents...

Diversity Director Settles Suit with Indiana University, Resigns.(Steve Birdine)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Nearly two years after suing Indiana University over alleged racially motivated harassment, IU's director of diversity programs has settled out of court with the university. Under the terms of the settlement, Steve...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... Rutgers University is the beneficiary of a scholarship program funded by the Texaco Oil Co. that will provide two four-year scholarships to under-represented minorities who enroll as geology majors. Each year, the recipients will each...

New GI Bill Would Pay Full College Tuition.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan panel urged broad expansion of military and veterans benefits last month, including a new GI Bill promising full college scholarships in exchange for four years of active duty. The scholarships would cover any...

Former Campus Militant Returns As Affirmative Action Director.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. -- The University of Rhode Island (URI), strained by racial tension, has hired a new affirmative action director familiar with campus unrest. Louis S. Francis Jr. was among more than a dozen Black University of Rhode...

Florida Proposes Free Tuition for Children of Former Welfare Recipients.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... TAMPA, Fla. -- Children of former welfare recipients may be eligible for prepaid college tuition, as long as their parents don't go back on welfare. A new Florida project -- the first of its kind in the country -- has set aside $2.5...

N.C. Central Makes Case to Legislators for More Funds.(North Carolina Central University)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... DURHAM, N.C. -- North Carolina Central University is in such dire straits that the biology department cannot even buy enough frogs for students to dissect, the school's chancellor says. Dr. Julius Chambers took members of the state Advisory...

Three Grambling Students Criminally Charged with Hazing.(Grambling State University)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... GRAMBLING, La. -- Accusations that a Grambling State University student was the victim of a violent hazing incident are being examined by the university and have resulted in criminal charges being filed in the neighboring town of Ruston. ...

Texas, California, Washington, and now Georgia.(university admission policy)
February 4, 1999... ATLANTA - A federal judge has ruled that a University of Georgia (UGA) admissions policy used from 1990 to 1995 to foster diversity on its campuses was unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield of Savannah, rejected...

Preparing Leaders for a New Century.(National Black Student Leadership Development Conference)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... International relations, ethics, and spirituality the focus of student leadership conference Richmond, VA.- Sheldon Murray drove down here from West Chester University of Pennsylvania because he's concerned about what will happen on his...

Business Professors on Wall Street.(workshop)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... New York -- As the world's financial markets continue their rapid roller-coaster ride over the hills of the bulls and through the valleys of the bears, it becomes increasingly important that the nation's business school faculty stay attuned to...

Dr. Entrepreneur.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... Laughter breaks into his conversation as freely as heat rises in a chilly room. Yet, when Dr. Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is serious, his tone of voice, expressions, and gestures punctuate a surge of speech that quickens and retards to...

The Joys of Thirty-something.(Afro-American studies at Harvard University)
February 4, 1999... The road to acclaim for Harvard's Afro-American studies department has been littered with potholes, but after 30 years, the unit finally appears to be cruising. In 1969, Black students, faculty members, and administrators at Harvard...

Harvard's Afro-American Studies Faculty.
February 4, 1999... Lawrence D. Bobo Professor of Afro-American Studies and Sociology EDUCATION: B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles; Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. INTERESTS: Survey research on race and...

Blacks in Crimson.
February 4, 1999... While Harvard has surpassed many other institutions of its size in its demonstrated commitment to student diversity, the university is still woeful in its representation of African Americans on the faculty. The recent avalanche of magazine...

Alma Mater Evokes Pride and Pain.(Harvard University)(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... After the founding of the Afro-American studies department, why did it take Harvard University 20 years to get serious about building it into a first-rate enterprise? Why did 29 years pass before Harvard's law school hired its first woman of...

Encarta Africana.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
February 4, 1999... Encarta Africana Edited by Dr. Henry Loui Gates and Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah Microsoft Corporation, 1999 Price: $64.95 When one of the nation's top technology companies pairs with two of the nation's most authoritative scholars on the...

Chicanos Organize the `New Raza Left'.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... Continuous attacks against Latinos over the past several years -- particularly in California -- have triggered an organizational response across college campuses nationwide. Similar to the Black Radical Congress, the "New Raza Left" -- as it...

D.C. Students May Get College Tuition Break.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... WASHINGTON -- The Republican chairman of the House of Representatives' Government Oversight subcommittee on the District of Columbia plans to introduce a bill that would allow Washington, D.C., high school graduates to pay in-state tuition at...

`English-Only' Proposal Meeting Resistance in Utah.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... OREM, Utah -- Making English the state's official language is offensive to Utah's heritage, a Brigham Young University linguistics professor said at a language diversity forum last month. "Official English is a self-centered, uncharitable...

Virginia Union to Get New Leader.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... Dr. Bernard Franklin, president of St. Augustine's College in North Carolina since 1994, recently announced that he will become president of Virginia Union University in Richmond, effective July 1. Franklin will be returning to Virginia...

BIQ Black Issues Quiz.
February 4, 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...

The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown.(Review)
February 4, 1999... The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown BY THEODORE TAYLOR AVON BOOKS, 1998 NEW YORK, NY 300 PAGES HARD COVER: $23.00 At least once a year, particularly during Black History Month, Americans pause to recognize African Americans and their...

Career CONSULTANTS.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I have identified someone who, if I could get him/her to be my mentor, would be an impressive addition to my career. How do I go about cultivating such a relationship? Presumably there is some way in which...

Professional Appointments.
February 4, 1999... ACADEMIC ALAN P. HILL has been appointed vice president for enrollment and student affairs at Alma College (Mich.). Previously, he was dean of students at DePauw University (Ind.). Hill earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and a...

Black Studies in the Next Millennium.(Brief Article)
February 4, 1999... In the spring of 1998, African and African American studies at Duke University garnered the approval from the Board of Trustees to establish itself as a fully tenured, interdisciplinary unit in the College of Arts and Sciences. One could claim...

WASHINGTON UPDATE.
February 18, 1999... Budget Targets Hispanic-Serving Institutions, College Prep President Bill Clinton is proposing a modest increase for higher education next year, with Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) and the new GEAR-UP for College program among the...

Governor Promises to Defend Georgia's HBCUs.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... ATLANTA -- Gov. Roy Barnes pledged last month to dedicate state resources to fighting a lawsuit that may threaten the existence of Georgia's three historically Black universities. "We will not allow the small-minded and the mean-spirited...

North Texas Guilty of Bias Against Black Professor.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... FORT WORTH, Texas -- The University of North Texas has discriminated against a Black professor by paying him less than his White colleagues for three years, a federal jury has found. The federal court jury in Sherman awarded Francis Terrell...

CUNY Trustees Reaffirm Commitment to Remediation Cutbacks.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... NEW YORK -- After much controversy, City University of New York trustees voted last month to reform remedial education at CUNY's 11 four-year colleges. Under the new remedial policy, students who fail one or more of me university's...

North Carolina to Monitor Winston-Salem State's Nursing Program.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- State officials will again monitor the nursing program at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) after students posted low passing rates on state exams. Ninety of 121 students at Winston-Salem State who took the test...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Tuskegee University has launched a Ph.D. program in Materials Science and Engineering -- the first such program at a historically Black institution, according to institution officials. Each fellowship is valued at $30,000. Students in the...

Prairie View Settles Dispute With Athletic Conference.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas -- The president of Prairie View A&M says his school's dispute with others in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) has been resolved and the sanctions stemming from the band's fight with Southern University's band...

Midshipman Could Be Expelled For Sexual Misconduct in Dorm.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A sexual encounter between midshipmen in a U.S. Naval Academy dormitory could result in the dismissal of the Black male participant while the White female participant is allowed to remain in school. A female midshipman...

Graduation Rates Tied to Budgets at Pitt.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 1999... PITTSBURGH -- The University of Pittsburgh is putting its money where its goals are. School deans must boost graduation rates of minority students or risk losing a portion of their budget. Trustees last month approved a program where the...

Kentucky Universities Fail to Meet State Standards for Blacks.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The University of Louisville (UL) isn't meeting state-assigned objectives for enrolling, retaining, and graduating Black students from Kentucky. A report to the Council on Postsecondary Education indicates the university...

Fired Coach Gets Hall-of-Fame Settlement.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A former basketball coach who sued Spartanburg Methodist College (SMC) over his team's racial makeup has been inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame as part of a settlement. Scott Rigot was head coach from...

Tennessee State May Get Mostly-White Fraternity.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 1999... NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Students at historically Black Tennessee State University (TSU) are trying to organize a local chapter of a mostly White fraternity. Sigma Pi would be the first predominantly White fraternity at TSU, where 16.4 percent...

Church, Philanthropist Come to Rescue of Central State Students.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- The dream of a college education for several dozen Central State University students who couldn't pay their bills remains alive after churches and civic groups pulled out their checkbooks. "It just clearly indicated...

Black Students Plead Innocent to Charges of Posting Racist Fliers.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... OXFORD, Ohio -- Two Black students who deny posting racist fliers in a Black cultural center on the Miami University campus have pleaded innocent to misdemeanor charges, their lawyer said late last month. The written pleas in behalf of...

Presidents of Historically Black Colleges Study Exchange Programs.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... JERUSALEM -- Presidents of five historically Black American universities toured Israel last month to meet with Israeli educators and examine political and social issues in the country. The president of Johnson C. Smith University in...

More Minorities Are Going Into Sciences in Mississippi.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... JACKSON, Miss. -- More underrepresented students of color are studying science and technology at Mississippi colleges and universities. The Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation revealed its findings for legislators last month....

In-State Minority Applications Drop Again at Berkeley.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 18, 1999... BERKELEY, Calif. -- While most schools in the University of California system saw an increase in minority in-state applicants for the fall semester, UC-Berkeley watched its numbers plummet. UC-Berkeley had noticeable decreases among Black,...

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka named Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at NYU.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... NEW YORK -- Nigerian-born writer Wole Soyinka has been named the first Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence by New York University's Africana studies program and the Institute of African-American Affairs. In 1986, Soyinka became the first African...

Southern University Professor Wins Share of $250,000 Heinz Award.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... BATON ROUGE, La. -- Florence Robinson, a Southern University honors biology professor who organized the fight against the pollution of Devil's Swamp, will get a share of the $250,000 that accompanies the 1998 Heinz Award for the Environment....

Douglas Ousted from Texas Southern Presidency.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... HOUSTON -- Texas Southern University's board of regents, in a Feb. 5th meeting, dismissed James M. Douglas as president of the historically Black university. The regents voted to oust Douglas only seven months after they extended his contract...

Diversity Game of Chance Raises The Stakes.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Appeals Court Considering Rejection Of a Virginia School Board's Kindergarten Lottery RICHMOND, Va. -- The assault continues. The first target was race sensitive admissions programs in higher education -- focusing on test-score differences...

A Guiding Insight.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Education Department's new 150-page publication deals with racial and sexual harassment WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has published a guide designed to help school officials deal more effectively with incidents of...

A New, and Improved, View of the South.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... A just-released College Fund/UNCF report says southern states are leading the way in higher education access for African Americans A new report issued by The College Fund/UNCF not only confirms that more African Americans are attending...

California Students Strike Back.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... A class-action suit has been filed against the University of California charging the new admissions policy discriminates against students of color SAN FRANCISCO -- Five civil rights groups have filed a class action lawsuit against the...

Fighting Back the Chill.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... While the climate for students of color at public institutions in states where affirmative action has been curtailed is brisk, several neighboring private institutions are taking a `your-loss-is-our-gain' approach to the `opportunity.' ...

The New Complexion of Retention Services.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Attacks against race-sensitive admission policies are prompting many campuses to refocus retention programs that once targeted minority students While opponents of affirmative action programs wage their very public battle to dismantle...

HBCUs Tackle The Knotty Problem Of Retention.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... They leave because their money runs out or their grandparents need some help at home. They leave because they never made any friends and didn't feel like part of the college. They leave because their sweetheart attends a different institution...

Succeeding on White Campuses.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Elite institutions explain why initiatives that support Black student success are essential to achieving the goal of diversity. Dr. Sarah Willie has devoted much of her career to studying the progress of Black students on predominantly...

My College Hunting Experience.(Column)
February 18, 1999... This year, as I prepare to enter the rest of my life, one of my most memorable experiences has been the search for my perfect college. I have been through many steps in this process. In addition to evaluating schools in the basis of the...

Exhibiting A Pattern Of Pride.(Review)
February 18, 1999... University's exhibit on kente involves local students and helps museums fulfill their responsibilities to minority communities Ann Spencer spent nearly 13 years traveling the same route from her home in Plainfield, N.J., to her job at the...

THE LACK OF Virtual Privacy.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... Report: `High Degree' of Security Is Needed to Combat Collectors of Student Information A student majoring in math receives a credit card, but is turned down for a new card when he changes his major to rhetoric. The card distributor...

Stanford Under Federal Investigation For Discrimination.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford University is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor for potential violation of federal affirmative action law and gender discrimination. The federal investigation was prompted, in part, by...

Universities Targeted by Conservative Ad Campaign.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Conservative organizations that say top U.S. colleges are illegally using racial preferences in admissions are producing reports to support their claim and, in some cases, taking their case to the nation's college newspapers. ...

More Cancer Research on Ethnic Minorities and Poor Urged by Study.(Brief Article)
February 18, 1999... WASHINGTON -- A report by the Institute of Medicine has urged the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to increase efforts to determine why poor Americans and some ethnic minorities are more susceptible to develop and die from certain cancers....

CORRECTION.(Correction Notice)
February 18, 1999... In the Jan. 21, 1999, edition of Black Issues, in a chart titled Black and Student Athlete Graduation Rates, Ohio University was inadvertently identified as the University of Ohio. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused. ...

Of N-Words and Race Men.(Column)
February 18, 1999... Washington, D.C., is such a racial hotbed that when a White man uses the word "niggardly" -- Teutonically speaking, of course -- the Black man whose ears were boxed by the arcane reference becomes the bad guy. The nation's capital is such a...

Black Writers and Latin America: Cross Cultural Affinities.(Brief Article)(Review)
February 18, 1999... Black Writers and Latin America: Cross Cultural Affinities By Richard Jackson Howard University Press Washington, D.C. 207 pages Paperback $15.95 Engaging university students in discussions of cross-cultural connection in foreign second...

Career CONSULTANTS.(Review)
February 18, 1999... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: How do I get my colleagues to respect the research/work that I do on African American issues? DR. FREDDIE SANDIPHER Assistant professor of English, University College University of Cincinnati President of...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Review)
February 18, 1999... ACADEMIC DR. JOHNETTA CROSS BRAZZELL has been named vice chancellor for student services at the University of Arkansas. She brings a wealth of experience, most recently as vice president for student affairs at Spelman College. Brazzell...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(Review)
February 18, 1999... * Johnson C. Smith University, as the lead institution in The North Carolina Consortium for International and Intercultural Education, has been awarded a $420,000 grant by the National Security Education Program to establish a Russian language...

Black Issues Quiz.(Review)
February 18, 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...

Interracial Dating as an indicator of Integration.(Review)
February 18, 1999... I recently read an article in Black Issues In Higher Education on integration by Paul Ruffins (Jan. 7, 1999). The author writes that approximately 1.2 million marriages are interracial. These figures are used in a context leading the reader to...