Black Issues in Higher Education articles from July 2004

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from July 2004

The call to serve.(Editor's Note)
July 1, 2004... By now, I hope you've had the opportunity to peruse our commemorative 20th anniversary edition (June 17th). It was quite a task putting together a magazine of that size, but we did, so we hope you enjoyed our "labor of love" and going down...

My view from Topeka.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... The cover story "A View From Topeka," in the May 20th issue of Black Issues In Higher Education rekindled memories of a childhood growing up in Topeka, Kan., during the historical events that led to Brown v. Board of Education. There are dual...

Intellectual breeding grounds.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I received my issue of Black Issues (May 6th), and was a bit troubled by what was written by Dr. Pamela Safisha Nzingha Hill in the "Last Word." Dr. Hill expressed her concerns about HBCUs not being as Africanized as they should be. She states,...

New Perkins bill gains favor with educators, lawmakers.(Washington Update)(Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act)
July 1, 2004... For the advocates of vocational and technical education, Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., has good news: The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act will not be gutted. "That was one of our primary concerns," said Kimberly Green,...

Nation's capital sees huge demand for school vouchers.(Washington Update)
July 1, 2004... Demand for access to the nation's first federally funded school voucher program has proved overwhelming in the nation's capital, due in large part to parental frustration with its troubled public education system. The Washington...

Congressional Republicans host fifth annual forum for HBCU presidents.(Washington Update)
July 1, 2004... Seventy-seven presidents of historically Black colleges and universities attended the Fifth Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Congressional Forum in Washington, D.C., on June 8 and 9. The forum, established by former...

Survey: most believe U.S. will have woman president in 20 years or less.(Washington Update)
July 1, 2004... Sixty-one percent of people believe there will be a U.S. woman president in 20 years or less, according to a recent survey commissioned by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and The Allstate Foundation. Of that group, 37...

Louisiana school board member first to be implicated in grade-changing scandal.(Quincy Richard Sr.)
July 1, 2004... BATON ROUGE, LA. A criminal probe of Southern University's grade-buying scandal has already prompted a plea bargain from one St. Landry Parish school board member, and could implicate two other members of the same board. St. Landry...

Women reap more benefits from higher education, study finds.
July 1, 2004... COLLEGE PARK, MD. Higher education offers a variety of benefits, both economic and non-economic, and women seem to reap much bigger economic benefits from earning an associate's degree or a bachelor's degree than their male counterparts,...

Hefner to retire from Tennessee State University.(Noteworthy News)
July 1, 2004... NASHVILLE, TENN. Dr. James A. Hefner, president of Tennessee State University, plans to retire as the sixth president of the university effective May 31, 2005. J. Stanley Rogers, vice chair of the Tennessee Board of Regents, praised...

AAUP censure could hinder Philander Smith's search for president.(Noteworthy News)(American Association of University Professors)
July 1, 2004... LITTLE ROCK, ARK. Philander Smith College will have the handicap of censure by a nationwide faculty group as it seeks a new president. Dr. Trudie Kibbe Reed, 56, is leaving Philander Smith after six years as its president to take the...

African Americans respond poorly to hepatitis C treatment.(Relevant Research)
July 1, 2004... DURHAM, N.C. African Americans have a significantly lower response rate to treatment for chronic hepatitis C than non-Hispanic Whites, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers. Some African...

FAMU College of Law nears provisional accreditation.(Noteworthy News)(Florida A&M University)
July 1, 2004... ORLANDO, FLA, Just two years after opening and one year before its first class will graduate, Florida A&M University College of Law is just one step away from being granted provisional accreditation. The American Bar Association (ABA)...

Selected community colleges to participate in initiative to increase student success.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... INDIANAPOLIS Twenty-seven community, colleges in five states will participate in Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count," a new initiative designed to enhance the academic success of low-income and minority students. Each college...

Barnard College honors Dorothy Height, 75 years after turning her away.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... NEW YORK Barnard College has made civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height an honorary alumna, 75 years after it rescinded her acceptance as a student because of her skin color. In an alumnae reunion celebration last month, college President...

New center at Texas A&M to focus on Latino population.(noteworthy news)(Mexican American and U.S. Latino Research Center)
July 1, 2004... COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS A new center for Mexican American and U.S. Latino research will be housed at Texas A&M University. Established in May by the Texas A&M University,, System Board of Regents, the Mexican American and U.S. Latino...

Teach for America teachers outperform colleagues, study reveals.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... PRINCETON, N.J. Students of Teach for America (TFA) teachers outscored their schoolmates on math achievement tests and matched their average performance in reading, according to a national study of the program recently released by...

California tribe presents $30,000 in scholarships to American Indian students.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... MORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION, BANNING, CALIF. Creating a new program designed to provide financial support for California American Indian students statewide, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians launched a scholarship program unique to the...

Michigan officials discuss plan to encourage students to study science, engineering.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... MACKINAC ISLAND, MICH. State officials are refining a plan to offer interest-free loans to students who pursue degrees in science and engineering, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said recently. State treasurer Jay Rising is working on...

Study indicates aggressive treatment helps African Americans with diabetes, high blood pressure.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... DETROIT Data presented at ISHIB 2004, the annual congress of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, indicate that African American patients with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure benefit from aggressive use of...

Creighton University honors Columbia astronaut with statue unveiling.(noteworthy news)(Michael P. Anderson)
July 1, 2004... OMAHA, NEB. Creighton University honored the memory and life of Creighton alumnus and space shuttle Columbia astronaut Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson with the unveiling of a bronze bust of him during a dedication ceremony last month. ...

Kaplan, EDU Inc. team up to increase educational opportunities at HBCUs.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... NEW YORK Worldwide educational services leader Kaplan Inc. announced it has become the exclusive K-12 partner for EDU Inc., a unique service for historically Black colleges and universities that enables students to apply to 29 member...

Surgeon joins newest class of NASA astronaut candidates.(noteworthy news)
July 1, 2004... CHICAGO NASA announced last month that Dr. Robert L. Satcher, an orthopaedic surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and researcher at Northwestern University, is part of the next generation of space explorers as he joins the newest...

Service is in her blood: following in her father's footsteps, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis works to provide others with the chance to make higher education a priority and a reality.(Interview)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... The daughter of noted blood bank pioneer Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis is no stranger to the spotlight. Yet, it is from her own political and educational pursuits that she has become a well-known figure in the Washington, D.C.,...

Back in the trenches: outgoing Duke president steps down to return to roots--teaching and research.(Interview)(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... Dr. Nannerl Overholser Keohane became Duke University's eighth president when she arrived on campus in July 1993. She also became the university's first female president. And after 11 years of leading the 12,900-student campus in Durham, N.C.,...

New answers to old questions.(BI Bookshelf)(Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Underground Codes: Race, Crime and Related Fires By Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403 In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a...

The road to racial equality.(BI Forum)
July 1, 2004... I was born in 1954 just four months after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawed the "separate but equal" doctrine of school segregation. That one fact has shaped my life immeasurably. Howard University, Morris College,...

Tablet PCs getting campus tryouts: mobile computing device said to launch new era in personal computing.(Tech Talk)
July 1, 2004... When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presided over the introduction of the Tablet PC and its Microsoft operating system in 2002, he declared the mobile computing device, which features a touchpad screen that recognizes handwriting, to be...

National Biotechnology initiative under way in Pennsylvania .(tech briefs)(Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2004... PITTSBURGH U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao kicked off the national Biotechnology Worker Training Initiative in Pennsylvania last month at the facilities of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), a public/private partnership...

Security Software for individual personal computers released.(tech briefs)
July 1, 2004... DALLAS Individual PC users can now control what happens to the e-mail messages and attachments sent from their computers. A new PC security software product called Essential Security Suite allows individuals to prevent their outbound...

Cybersecurity research at two schools gets boost from AT&T Foundation.(tech briefs)
July 1, 2004... WASHINGTON The AT&T Foundation announced two grant awards totaling $100,000 to support cybersecurity research at the University of Texas at Dallas and Syracuse University. Both universities are leaders in the field of cybersecurity and...

Preventing catastrophes from data loss.(Personal Computing)
July 1, 2004... What's the worst thing that can happen to your computer? Worse than a hard disk crash, virus infection, spam assault, denial-of-service attack, hacker take-over, fire, flood, or other human, mechanical or natural disaster is a faulty backup...

Texas A&M University.(On The Move)
July 1, 2004... DR. SHANTUAN A. COLEMAN has joined Texas A&M University with dual responsibilities as associate director of education development in the college of engineering and as assistant director of the university system minority programs. She earned a...

North Carolina A&T State University.(On The Move)
July 1, 2004... SHAWYNA L. HARRIS has been named director of galleries for the Mattye Reed African Heritage and H.C. Taylor art galleries at North Carolina A&T State University. Harris most recently served as a consultant for the art museum at North Carolina...

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc. (NACME).(On The Move)
July 1, 2004... JOHN LUBBE has been named vice president of resource development by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc. (NACME). Lubbe is the former vice president, fund development for Big Brothers and Sisters of America. He also...

University of Tennessee.(On The Move)
July 1, 2004... DENELLE A. NILES has been appointed director of minority student affairs and the Black Cultural Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Currently, she is completing her doctorate at the university. Niles earned a bachelor's and a...

Tennessee State University.(On The Move)
July 1, 2004... DR. MARLA THOMPSON has been named director of the division of research and sponsored programs at Tennessee State University. Thompson has served as interim director since 2003. She earned a bachelor's from Tennessee State University, a master's...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute.(Grants & awards)
July 1, 2004... The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $49.7 million in grants to 42 baccalaureate and master's degree institutions in 17 states and Puerto Rico. The four-year grants, ranging from $500,000 to $1.6 million, support a variety of...

Columbia University (N.Y.) Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.(Grants & awards)
July 1, 2004... The Columbia University (N.Y.) Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory was awarded a $5.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the Asian monsoon climate system. The five-year study will apply the science...

Dartmouth Medical School.(Grants & awards)
July 1, 2004... Dartmouth Medical School will lead a $9 million National Institutes of Health grant to direct a collaboration in functional genomics that will be one of the most comprehensive to date within the group of organisms studied. The award to DMS'...

Missouri School of Journalism.(Grants & awards)
July 1, 2004... The Missouri School of Journalism was awarded $31 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation for the creation of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, a center that will focus on advanced studies of journalism and its role in...

Southern University.(Grants & awards)
July 1, 2004... Southern University at Baton Rouge (La.) received a $1 million project support grant from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund for the Gates/Marshall Redesign Program. The project is designed to radically improve the education of local...

Events.(Calendar)
July 1, 2004... JULY July 21-25 National Urban League 2004 Annual Conference Detroit E-mail: urbanleagueconference@nul.org July 25-27 Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA) Educational Facilities Leadership Forum 2004 Marriott...

The seven habits of highly successful Black junior faculty.(Last Word)
July 1, 2004... How do some Black junior faculty manage to successfully negotiate academic life? From my observation, they tend to have several things in common. First, highly successful Black junior faculty learn the expectations for promotion. Whether this...

Desperate times call for desperate measures.(Editor's Note)
July 15, 2004... In our annual journalism edition, we always take a look at how the industry is faring on the recruitment and retention of minority journalists. This year's American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual newsroom census reports a nearly half of...

Report dubs '90s 'Decade of the Community College'.(Washington Update)
July 15, 2004... Dubbing the 1990s the "Decade of the Community College," a new report from the American Council on Education (ACE) says public two-year colleges saw a bigger enrollment boom during that decade than other higher education institutions did. ...

Republican plan for proprietary colleges draws fire.(Washington Update)(College Access and Opportunity Act)
July 15, 2004... Should for-profit, proprietary institutions be considered in the same way as traditional nonprofit schools? The House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing June 16 to consider how federal funding is doled...

Study shows eye drops can delay, prevent glaucoma in blacks.(Noteworthy News)
July 15, 2004... SACRAMENTO, CALIF. University of California-Davis ophthalmologists and other researchers around the country have found that pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma in almost 50 percent of African...

UGA wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism.(Noteworthy News)(University of Georgia )
July 15, 2004... ATHENS, GA. The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication won a major endowment grant to create an innovative Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism. The grant will allow the Grady College to...

TIAA-CREF endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship.(Noteworthy News)
July 15, 2004... NEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan...

High school students uncover common goals, troubling differences among peers.(noteworthy news)
July 15, 2004... NEW YORK A piercing new look by New York metro region high school students at race and education affirms their strong support for racially integrated schools, but cautions that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education access to quality...

Georgia Regents continue to tackle black male college enrollment, retention.(noteworthy news)(African American Male Initiative)
July 15, 2004... ATLANTA Continuing the Board of Regents' efforts to increase the low numbers of African American males who attend college, University System of Georgia Chancellor Thomas C. Meredith announced recently the funding of three new collaborative...

Archaeologists unearthing earliest incorporated black town.(noteworthy news)(New Philadelphia, Illinois)
July 15, 2004... COLLEGE PARK, MD. In a 42-acre field of prairie grass, an archeological team has begun to uncover the remains of a pre-Civil War experiment in integration. New Philadelphia, Ill., the earliest known U.S. town incorporated by an African...

Baskerville named fifth president of NAFEO.(noteworthy news)(Lezli Baskerville)
July 15, 2004... SILVER SPRING, MD. The National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) late last month named Lezli Baskerville, a Washington, D.C., activist-attorney, to become the fifth president of the umbrella association of the...

Texas minority groups seek continuation of admissions policy.(noteworthy news)(NAACP, League of United Latin American Citizens)
July 15, 2004... AUSTIN, TEXAS Eliminating Texas' race-neutral college admissions law often touted by President Bush would be detrimental to the diversity of the state's colleges and universities, two minority groups argued last month. Some state...

Black Issues in Higher Education celebrates 20 years of publishing.(20th Anniversary Conference)
July 15, 2004... 20th Anniversary Conference Scholars, policy-makers, college administrators, and foundation and association executives from around the country helped Black Issues In Higher Education celebrate its 20th anniversary at its first national...

Eyewitness to the changing news media: veteran journalist and professor Lee Thornton shares her views on the erosion of public trust in the news media and the role of journalism education in repairing that image.(Interview)(Biography)
July 15, 2004... More than ever, the American news media are under public scrutiny for the way individual reporters conduct themselves, for how news coverage on major events is carried out and for the balance media organizations purport their news coverage to...

U.S. newsrooms still a long way from racial parity: annual survey reports little increase in number of minority journalists as well as a decline in black supervisors.
July 15, 2004... In some instances small increases can signal big gains--a one or two-point increase on the ACT, a mere quarter-point increase in interest rates. Yet, in the instance of newsroom diversity, a half a percentage point boost offers little to...

Developing truth tellers: Freedom Forum institute sets out to help diversify America's newsrooms through the training of minority journalists.
July 15, 2004... A mortgage broker. A public school teacher. A retired elevator company employee. It's not likely that anyone would consider individuals in these jobs to be prospective journalists. Nevertheless, officials with the Freedom Forum's Diversity...

The cross-training of future journalists: journalism schools respond to industry hiring trends by exposing students to both print, broadcast.
July 15, 2004... As television and print news outlets increasingly form partnerships with each other to gain larger audiences, journalism educators are cross-training more students. At a growing number of journalism schools across the country students are not...

Move over, SI: minority sports magazine to debut at year's end.(The Color of Sports)
July 15, 2004... A new magazine focusing exclusively on issues facing Black, Hispanic and other athletes of color is set to hit the news-stands at the end of the year. "The Color of Sports can fill a significant void and have a tremendous influence on...

SAJA works to raise profile of South Asia, journalism profession.(South Asian Journalists Association)
July 15, 2004... After several years of informal networking sessions and cocktail hours, the Asian America n Journalists Association (AAJA) and the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA) are coming together for the first time at next month's UNITY...

Strayer holds virtual commencement exercises.(tech briefs)
July 15, 2004... ARLINGTON, VA. Strayer University, a leading for-profit provider of postsecondary education for working adults, is hosting a virtual commencement ceremony to honor Strayer University Online's 2004 graduates. The multifaceted virtual...

University of Miami, private school team up to offer virtual high school.(tech briefs)
July 15, 2004... CORAL GABLES, FLA. The University of Miami has partnered with a private Florida-based K-12 school to collaborate on an online high school. Last fall, the Sagemont School in Weston approached the university with plans for a partnership that...

Suit claims firm's deception on student data sale.(tech briefs)
July 15, 2004... PORTLAND, ORE. CollegeNet Inc., which provides Internet and software-based administrative services to the higher education sector, has recently filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oregon charging competitor XAP Corp. with misleading...

Fighting back against cyberstalking.(Personal Computing)
July 15, 2004... Have you ever been harassed on the Internet? If so, you're not alone. The three most visible organizations that deal with cyberstalking and similar Internet issues receive about 30,000 complaints a year, according to Jayne Hitchcock, the...

Will tuition become a campaign issue?(Speaking Of Education)
July 15, 2004... With the twin issues of Iraq and the economy dueling for attention in the upcoming presidential campaign, will issues of access to higher education become a campaign issue? It ought to--data suggest that while as many as 60 percent of "new"...

Dr. Dennis E. Daniels has been named director of the Undergraduate Medical Academy at Prairie View A&M University and at the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University.(On The Move)
July 15, 2004... DR. DENNIS E. DANIELS has been named director of the Undergraduate Medical Academy at Prairie View A&M University and at the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was deputy director with the Fulton County Department of...

Bowie State University.(On The Move)
July 15, 2004... DR. PATRICIA PIERCE-RAMSEY has been named provost and vice president of academic affairs at Bowie State University in Maryland. Previously, she was vice president of academic affairs at Shaw University in North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's...

Kentucky State University.(On The Move)
July 15, 2004... DR. MARY EVANS SIAS has been named president of Kentucky State University. Prior to joining Kentucky State, Sias served as senior rice president for student affairs and external relations at the University of Texas at Dallas. She earned a...

Elizabeth City State University.(On The Move)
July 15, 2004... DR. ARTIE L. TRAVIS has been named vice chancellor for student affairs at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. Previously, he served as vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta....

Gustavus Adolphus College.(On The Move)
July 15, 2004... TIFFANY VERRETT has been named assistant director of residential life at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. Previously, she was director of multicultural student services at Auburn University in Alabama. Verrett earned a bachelor's from...

LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., recently received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to help increase the number of businesses that develop products using renewable energy technology.(Grants & awards)
July 15, 2004... LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., recently received a $150,000 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to help increase the number of businesses that develop products using renewable energy...

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) received a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support Black College Wire, an online news service for and about students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).(Grants & awards)
July 15, 2004... The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) received a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support Black College Wire, an online news service for and about students at historically Black colleges and...

The North Carolina A&T State University Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to head an inter-institutional team under the NSF's Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team initiative to support fundamental research and to catalyze synergistic science and technology.(Grants & awards)
July 15, 2004... The North Carolina A&T State University Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to head an inter-institutional team under the NSF's Nanoscale...

Purdue University (Ind.) has received equipment valued at approximately $1.75 million from Pfizer Inc.(Grants & awards)
July 15, 2004... Purdue University (Ind.) has received equipment valued at approximately $1.75 million from Pfizer Inc. that will be used to train students in contemporary drug manufacturing techniques and for research in chemistry and pharmaceuticals.

Xavier University (La.) has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to enhance its educational pathway into the biomedical sciences programs.(Grants & awards)
July 15, 2004... Xavier University (La.) has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to enhance its educational pathway into the biomedical sciences programs. The grant is part of the institute's $49.7 million...

Events.(Calendar)
July 15, 2004... AUGUST Aug. 1-6 National ACademic ADvising Association (NACADA) Academic Advising Summer Institute Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Web: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/index.htm Aug. 4-6 2004 Meriot International...

All in the name of research.(Last Word)
July 15, 2004... It takes a village to raise an African American doctoral recipient. If you don't agree ask any newly minted Ph.D. about the harsh reality of completing the degree. Ask them how many friends, family members, fellow graduate students, faculty...

Slow and steady.(Editor's Note)
July 29, 2004... Surmounting difficult terrain to achieve meaningful success--whether one pursues a Ph.D. or takes a leadership position at a college or university--represents an underlying theme of our annual Top 100 graduate school issue. In this year's...

Few college programs reap gains from education spending bill: HBCUs, community colleges receive small victories.(Washington Update)
July 29, 2004... Black colleges are one of the few winners in a new 2005 House education spending bill that largely holds the line on federal funding for higher education, including core financial aid programs essential for needy students. The main federal...

Census Bureau releases data on educational attainment by race, ethnicity.(Noteworthy News)
July 29, 2004... WASHINGTON More U.S. residents than ever have high school and college diplomas, although rates still vary greatly by race and ethnicity, the Census Bureau says. Among those 25 and older last year, 84.6 percent had graduated from high...

Survey reveals 48 top supporters of HBCU engineering schools.(Noteworthy News)
July 29, 2004... BALTIMORE A second annual survey conducted by Career Communications Group Inc. (CCG) has found that 48 companies and government agencies are considered most supportive of historically Black engineering schools. CCG asked the deans of...

NCAA violations cause MEAC to strip FAMU of championships.(Noteworthy News)(National Collegiate Athletic Association)(Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference)(Florida A&M University's )
July 29, 2004... TALLAHASSEE, FLA. The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference plans to take away Florida A&M University's 2000 and 2001 football titles and nine other championships as punishment for committing 196 NCAA rule violations. The penalties were...