Black Issues in Higher Education articles from February 2000

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from February 2000

High Hopes for Health Bill.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Support is growing in Congress and the Clinton administration for legislation that would increase the status of the federal office on minority health -- and, in the process, create new funding opportunities for Black college...

Washington briefs ...(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... Proprietary Schools Seek Liaison Like Black, Hispanic Colleges WASHINGTON -- Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and community colleges all have their liaisons within the U.S. Education Department. Now for-profit...

Just Missing Minority Hiring Goal May Not Prove Costly for Nebraska University.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... LINCOLN, Neb. -- Even though the University of Nebraska system fell one person short of a state-required target for minority faculty members in 1999, it may not lose any state funding. Officials at the university say the three-year average...

Oprah Also a Big Hit as Northwestern Instructor.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey was such a big hit with Northwestern University business students that she and partner Stedman Graham have been invited to teach another class. Winfrey, who taught a class called "Dynamics of Leadership" last fall...

Teaching Hospitals Spread Additional Medicare Cuts.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Hospitals treating some of the nation's neediest patients will be spared billions of dollars in Medicare cuts by the Clinton administration, officials said last month. Hospitals in Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri,...

Georgia President: Diversity is Here to Stay.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... ATHENS, Ga. -- The University of Georgia will remain a place where diversity is valued so that its graduates are well prepared to live in a world with citizens of every background, Dr. Michael Adams, the university's president, said in his...

Fort Valley's Students May Have to Repay Grants.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... ATLANTA -- Some Fort Valley State University students who received grants may have to give the money back after an audit that showed potential fraud in the school's financial aid office. Fort Valley State President Dr. Oscar L. Prater says...

ETS' Dr. Nancy Cole To Retire.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... PRINCETON, N.J. -- Educational Testing Service President Nancy S. Cole announced last month that she intends to retire as soon as a successor can be named. The announcement was made at the ETS' January meeting of the Board of Trustees....

Judge's Ruling Effectively Acquits High-Stakes Test.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... To the disadvantage of poor and minority students in Texas WASHINGTON -- Even though Black and Latino students are at, increased risk of failing Texas high-school graduation test, a federal judge ruled last month that the test does not...

Credentialing Loopholes Common in K-12 Teaching.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 3, 2000... As states wrestle against teacher shortage WASHINGTON -- The quality of classroom learning was once again highlighted last month with the release of a report that documents the failure of states to ensure that all teachers have the...

New Jersey Hikes Standards for NEW TEACHERS.
February 3, 2000... Some worry the requirements will make it harder to recruit Black and Latino instructors TRENTON, NJ. -- Prospective teachers will have to make better grades in college if they want to make it into New Jersey's classrooms. The state...

An Unappealing DECISION.
February 3, 2000... Experts view U.S. Circuit Court Panel's reversal of Cureton v. NCAA as maintaining a discriminatory status quo' in collegiate sports WASHINGTON -- NCAA "is free to discriminate." That is how some experts are interpreting the decision of a...

Black Colleges Beef Up Security After Receiving Hate Mail.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... BATON ROUGE, La. -- Southern University was one of several historically Black colleges and universities that kicked off the year 2000 by tightening security after receiving a threatening racist hate letter. "I've been in this business for...

Coaches Ask NCAA to AVOID SOUTH CAROLINA.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... GREENVILLE, S.C. -- For the time being, the National Collegiate Athletics Association will take a wait and see approach in responding to a plea to move the 2002 Division I Men's South Regional Basketball Tournament from Greenville, S.C. ...

Congressman and College President Could Mediate Flag Dispute.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... COLUMBIA, S.C. -- U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn and College of Charleston President Alex Sanders could be brought in as mediators by the governor to help settle the Confederate flag issue. "I guess it's because I'm such a universally loved and...

The `Other' Asians.
February 3, 2000... With their numbers on the rise, Indian, Pakistani and other South Asian scholars are gradually emerging from academe's shadows. When Dr. Madhulika Khandelwal did a computer search for literature about Indian immigrants in 1986, she got back...

BI THE NUMBERS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 3, 2000... WHERE THEY ARE FROM: Foreign Student Enrollment During the 1998-99 academic year, there were 490,933 international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States. Of these, 56 percent were from Asian countries, with...

Discovering the Ties that Bind.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... Some folks argue that people from the South Asian Federation -- which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan -- share no cultural or historical ties with the Asian nations to the East. "We are connected by the...

Identity Matters.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... An Asian-Caribbean-American's perspective One place where the African and Indian Diasporas meet is in the Caribbean. After France and England abolished slavery in their holdings there, plantation owners brought Indian laborers to the...

Higher Education in INDIA.
February 3, 2000... A brief historical and contemporary overview India has an old tradition of knowledge and learning. In fact, a well-established system of higher education functioned as early as 1000 B.C. In that system, the construction of knowledge, the...

African American Student Programs vs. Diversity.
February 3, 2000... As more student groups scramble w get a share of the pie, is the African Amscan slice shrinking? A $46,000 annual budget may seem reasonable in these economic times for a campus organization of 1,200 students. But when that student group...

Diversity Plan Trends Aim to Meet 21st Century Challenges.
February 3, 2000... The current generation of diversity plans seeks to be more inclusive -- and we're not just talking about numerically Campus diversity practitioners often complain that diversity initiatives aren't integrated into the core structures of...

Campus Policy Hinders Student's Efforts to Promote Online Bookstore.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- A student at the University of Pittsburgh's Johnstown campus says school officials reversed a decision to allow her to distribute brochures about a discount online bookstore, saying it would hurt sales at the campus shop. ...

A Multiracial Identity Is Not a Crisis.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... Terms like "Black issues" used to make me feel uncomfortable. I am of racially mixed parentage and have never really felt like I belonged to a particular community -- African American nor Asian American nor Native American. The first time...

Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthrophy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930.(Review)
February 3, 2000... Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthrophy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930 by Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss Jr. University of Missouri Press, 1999 272 pages Hard Cover: $34.95 A mid the burgeoning literature about modern...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... ACADEMIC CLAYTON COBB has been named director of multicultural affairs at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He previously served as assistant director for registered student organizations and multicultural programs at Illinois State...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 3, 2000... * The State University of New York -- Albany has received a four-year, $760,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. The program encourages historically underrepresented...

A Tough Decision for Yale's Jewish Students.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... In 1920, newly-minted Yale graduate Morris Sweetkind, enticed by the life of the mind, resolved to stay in New Haven while his classmates left to seek their fortunes elsewhere. Rather than cash in on his prestigious degree, Sweetkind applied to...

Computer Policies at Louisiana-Monroe Rely Heavily on Trust.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... MONROE, La. -- Trust is a major part of the computer policies at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. Faculty members and students who break that trust can be punished. But officials won't make any predictions about what might happen to a...

Report Calls for `E-Learning' as College Boom Gets Underway.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2000... OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Washington's public colleges need to prepare for an influx of 50,000 new students by the end of the decade, and will need to rely on electronic learning and other advances as an adjunct to simply throwing up more college...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
February 17, 2000... Successful Examples of Student Athletes at Alcorn State Dear Editor: I read with great interest the edition with the story about James Brooks (see Black Issues, Jan. 6). At Alcorn State University, we have instituted an effective...

Minority-Serving Institutions May Get Windfall.
February 17, 2000... WASHINGTON - Black colleges may get a chance to receive federal funding to expand student access to degree programs, if a new Clinton administration proposal clears Congress. The Education Department has proposed a $40 million initiative to...

White House Plans New Education Tax Break.
February 17, 2000... WASHINGTON--The Clinton administration again is touting new tax benefits for higher education, though its ideas may not fare as well as they did back in 1997. That year, Congress approved two new tax credit programs -- the HOPE Scholarship...

Black History Month Celebrates Its Founder.
February 17, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital began celebrating Black History Month with a tribute to the originator of the idea, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, half a century after his death. Jacqueline Goggin, a Woodson biographer, told how he worked to...

More College Freshmen Report Disabilities.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The percentage of freshmen with disabilities has increased significantly in recent decades, tripling over a 20-year period, according to a report from the American Council on Education. And the most common disability cited was...

Super Quarterbacks Produced by HBCUs.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... ATLANTA -- Although Steve McNair came up just short in his attempt to lead the Tennessee Titans to the National Football League Championship last month, the second African American to quarterback a team in the Super Bowl will go down in the...

Storm Closes Schools; Lincoln Sends Students Home.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... OXFORD, Pa. -- Problems with the electrical and heating systems at Lincoln University forced officials to close the campus last month and send some 1,400 students home. Those problems appeared to be related to the snowstorm of Jan. 26, which...

Historians Call for Conference Boycott.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... ST. LOUIS -- African American, Latino and other historians from around the country are organizing a boycott of next month's Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual convention because the venue where the meeting is to be held has a...

Washington Governor Wants to Make Promise Scholarships Permanent.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Although more than 2,000 high school seniors will be eligible this spring to receive state-funded college scholarships along with their diplomas, the future of Washington Promise Scholarships is in doubt while backers scrounge...

Study: California Gov.'s Scholarship Plan Would Benefit Mostly Whites and Asians.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A university study of Gov. Gray Davis' merit scholarship proposal has found that scholarships would mostly go to middle-class Whites and Asians. The study's authors say the results suggest there is a political powder...

NCAA Lessens Requirements for Core Subjects.
February 17, 2000... NEW YORK -- Within a month of winning an appeals court reversal of a decision that would have dismantled the freshmen eligibility standards for college sports, the National Collegiate Athletics Association has decided to lessen the restrictions...

Mississippi HBCUs to Get Additional Funding from State Legislature.
February 17, 2000... JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's public universities are unlikely to get all of the $95.7 million requested for building upgrades. House and Senate members have been studying the budget request from the state's college board. The budget...

For State's African Americans, `One Florida' Is `Divisive Florida'.
February 17, 2000... MIAMI -- During the past two months, Floridians have heard starkly different views on how Gov. Jeb Bush's "One Florida" plan would affect minority enrollment in university admissions and participation in state contracting decisions. There...

California Regent Wants to Repeal Anti-Affirmative Action Ban.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... BERKELEY, Calif.- In a move that is largely symbolic, a University of California Regent said last month that he is preparing a proposal to reverse the university's groundbreaking ban on the use of racial and gender preferences in admissions...

Civil Rights Museum Adds New Displays.(Brief Article)
February 17, 2000... MEMPHIS, Tenn.-- Evidence pointing to James Earl Ray as Martin Luther King Jr.'s killer is going on display at the museum on the site of the civil rights leader's murder. The King family says a recent civil court verdict supporting their...

New star rising.
February 17, 2000... Dr. Neil de Grasse Tyson and his love of astrophysics are taking New York's newly reconstructed Hayden Planetarium to new heights. Some people gaze upon the stars in the hopes of making their dreams come true. Neil de Grasse Tyson looked up...

All News Doesn't Make it to Print.
February 17, 2000... With Black college newspapers struggling to maintain a campus presence, many Black journalism students are finding it harder to hone and showcase their skills The Campus Chronicle is a feisty little student newspaper at Alcorn State...

BI Bookshelf.
February 17, 2000... Books by Neil de Grasse Tyson Universe Down to Earth Columbia University Press 277 pages $29.95 hardcover May, 1995; $16.95 paperback October, 1995 Merlin's Tour of the Universe: A Skywatcher's Guide to Everything from...

Fading Mementos.
February 17, 2000... Financial and other pressures have put college yearbooks in jeopardy They're full of photographs and stories about sports teams and cheerleaders and bands, fraternities and sororities and other campus organizations, classmates and...

Preserving Black Art On Campus.
February 17, 2000... A traveling exhibit displaying some of the rare treasures in historically Black college art collections also explains the delicate process that went into their restoration When art curators Dr. Richard Powell and Jock Reynolds first...

New Formula for Distance Education.
February 17, 2000... This month, Black college officials attending the annual National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education conference learned of an initiative designed to help their schools become more competitive in online distance education. ...

Black history on T.V.
February 17, 2000... Now in its 24th year, Black History Month is being observed in dramatic style on public, commercial and cable television. Programs highlighting historical events as well as the achievements of a wide range of African American personalities will...

Stepping Out Into the Unknown: Bessie Coleman & the Millennium.
February 17, 2000... In preparation for a Black History Month celebration at the Federal Aviation Administration, I probed over a series of books in search for a metaphor that both reflected the theme of "Heritage and Horizons, Legacy and Challenges," and spoke to...

Career consultants.
February 17, 2000... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: What are the critical factors in determining whether litigation is my only option in a promotion dispute, and if I do sue my institution, is that tantamount to career suicide? JONATHAN R. ALGER, COUNSEL,...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
February 17, 2000... * The City University of New York-City College has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost research in the realm of nanotechnology hybrid molecular solid systems and to support the establishment of a new...

Professional appointments.
February 17, 2000... ACADEMIC LARRY T. ELLIS has been named director of University Personnel Services for the University of Florida. He was promoted from his previous position as director of the division of small business and vendor diversity relations. Ellis...

Injustice Along the Color Line.
February 17, 2000... In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the United States Supreme Court turned down a petition for freedom from an enslaved African American. The author of the court s ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Tawney, declared that Blacks could never be...