Black Issues in Higher Education articles from January 1998

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from January 1998

Chancellor of Southern University resigns amid scholarship flap. (Marvin Yates)
January 8, 1998... BATON ROUGE, La. - The chancellor of Southern University's Baton Rouge campus abruptly resigned in the wake of a scholarship scandal. In resigning, Dr. Marvin Yates, who had served as chancellor at the largest Southern University campus for...

California has another proposition. (Ron Unz Initiative to ban bilingual instruction)
January 8, 1998... This One Would Prohibit Bilingual Education The next California proposition that may alter the national political landscape is the proposed Ron Unz Initiative, which seeks to ban all bilingual instruction in California public schools. The...

Race board finds consensus elusive on public schools. (President's Advisory Board on Race)
January 8, 1998... WASHINGTON - The President's Advisory Board on Race recently found that no national discussion on race in public schools is complete without conservatives invoking the controversial issue of education vouchers for poor children. In a December...

Seeing no evil. (Dr Shelby Steele's speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans)(Cover Story)
January 8, 1998... In their Anti-Affirmative Action Campaign but Plenty of It in Multiculturalism NEW ORLEANS - Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology...

Auctioning off yesterday. (protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documents)
January 8, 1998... For Many Black Museums, It's "Buy-Buy History" When Charles L. Blockson heard in November that the Christie's auction house in New York had provoked an angry telephone protest by callers who were irate over a scheduled auction of American...

Library of Congress to put "African American Odyssey" on display.
January 8, 1998... WASHINGTON - An exhibit comprised of items from the nation's largest collection of materials relating to African American history and culture will go on display next year at the Library of Congress. Based on a book-edited by Dr. Debra Newman...

Specializing in the air. (interview with Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines managing director Lou Phillips)(Interview)
January 8, 1998... Ethnotourism, College Relations and Lou Phillips As Managing Director of Urban and Community Relations for American Airlines, part of Laugh Phillips's responsibilities include recruiting students for employment, developing the concept of...

The pied piper of college golf. (National Minority Junior Golf Scholarship Assn. founder and Pres. Bill Dickey)
January 8, 1998... Bill Dicky More Than Just a Fairway Friend to College-Bound Youth Thanks to megastar Tiger Woods, golf has started to shed some of its longtime image as an elitist sport. There's no question that now that Tiger is on the scene, the game will...

The evolving HBCU niche. (historically Black colleges and universities)
January 8, 1998... In recent years, much has been written about the challenges confronting American higher education. There is a growing interest in applying standards of accountability, and many states have reduced financial support, as colleges and universities...

Can race-talk really make a difference?
January 8, 1998... By the end of President Bill Clinton's town hall meeting on race in early December, his audience had deteriorated to platitudes and cliches. I half-expected Rodney King to jump out of the Akron audience and plead, again, "Can't we all just get...

Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!
January 8, 1998... I'm warning you, once you open this compact collection of six razor-sharp essays, you're going to have to stand back! Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red, male, female, straight, gay, college-educated, streetwise, conservative, liberal, whatever -...

Whitewashing fences and campus alcohol prohibition.
January 8, 1998... The recent deaths of college students in Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Virginia from consuming too much alcohol are paramount tragedies which we should all work to prevent. But if we draw the wrong lessons from these deaths, they will occur again...

Forecast '98: expect less talk, more action. (congressional action on educational issues)
January 22, 1998... Congress returns to work this month facing a litany of major education issues affecting African Americans and other students of color. After a year of public hearings and draft proposals, the House and Senate will tackle the nuts-and-bolts...

Academic turf war at East Los Angeles: move to include course on Central Americans in Chicano Studies Department meets resistance. (East Lost Angeles College)
January 22, 1998... Monterey Park, Calif. -- East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is the site of a controversy that many people have seen coming for a long time. It revolves around what appears to be an academic battle over turf. The Chicano Studies department...

All Americans are Nabrit beneficiaries. (James Madison Nabrit, Jr.)(Obituary)
January 22, 1998... As the president of Howard University, I am often called on to reflect upon Howard's unique legacy. Recently, I was privileged to address this legacy anew as we celebrated the life of Dr. James Madison Nabrit Jr., Howard's second African...

Schools of cool: jazz performance education providing a different kind of gig.(Cover Story)
January 22, 1998... Janelle Gill is confident that she has a future in jazz. The eighteen-year-old freshman pianist began jazz performance studies last semester at Howard University. Since then, she has played in the school's big band and the small-group jazz...

Speaking on jazz education: Ellis Marsalis.(Interview)
January 22, 1998... Ellis, Marsalis, regarded by many as the best modern jazz pianist in New Orleans, is the director of the jazz studies program in the Department of Music at the University of New Orleans (UNO). Born Nov. 14, 1934, he began formal studies...

Courtside motivation or abuse? Sprewell-Carlesimo brouhaha raises question of coaching behavior. (Latrell Sprewell, P.J. Carlesimo)
January 22, 1998... The Latrell Sprewell-P.J. Carlesimo brouhaha that shook professional basketball and the sports world has reverberated to the collegiate level, where it has some wondering whether there should be guidelines governing the behavior of coaches....

The Erotics of Instruction.
January 22, 1998... The Erotics of Instruction takes an intriguing look at the process of pedagogy. Although the book points out the male and female connection, mentoring, and academic professionalism, the writers' stylistic approach has a metaphorical manner to...