Black Issues in Higher Education articles from June 2000

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from June 2000

New Legislation Could Bring Major Money to Minority Schools.(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... WASHINGTON -- In their rush to wrap up action in an election year, congressional leaders are proposing major funding increases for minority-serving colleges and universities next year. Historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving...

Washington briefs ...(education may receive more funding)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 8, 2000... Pell Grants May Increase Next Year WASHINGTON -- Education lobbyists are a step closer to their goal of a large increase in the maximum Pell grant -- particularly if an aid-friendly Senate proposal takes effect. The Senate in mid-May...

Quote of Note.(Rep. Eva Clayton)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... "In this era of global economies, nations are becoming more interconnected and interdependent on one another... it is vitally important that we assist in integrating Africa into the global economy." -- Rep. Eva Clayton, D-N.C., on her...

Despite Outreach Efforts, UC Schools See Low Minority Enrollment.(University of California)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... LOS ANGELES -- Black and Hispanic enrollment at the Universities of California has not increased significantly despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the outreach programs that replaced affirmative action. Over the past five...

Bill Aims to Involve HBCUs In Africa Program.(black colleges to partner with farmers in Africa)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... WASHINGTON -- New legislation introduced in Congress may give historically Black colleges a new avenue for partnerships: Africa's farmers. A bill from Rep. Eva Clayton, D-N.C., would create an exchange program for African American farmers...

N.C. College President Announces Plan to Retire.(Bennett College)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Dr. Gloria Dean Randle Scott has announced her intention to retire at the end of the 2000-2001 academic year as the president of Bennett College. "I have requested that the board begin to identify the leadership needed...

S. Carolina Still Under Fire Despite Vote to Remove Flag.(South Carolina)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Legislature voted last month to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol dome and move it to a monument to Confederate dead on statehouse grounds. The deal struck by lawmakers says the flag at the...

Ohio State Protest Spurred by Diversity Issues.(Ohio State University)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A group of Ohio State University students say they blocked traffic on campus to bring attention to the failure of the school to deal with racial problems. About 75 protesters walked in a continuous box, blocking an...

Ethnic Stoles Steal Spotlight Before Kansas Graduation.(Wichita State University professor protests wearing of stoles)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... WICHITA, Kan. -- A Wichita State University professor raised objections to a group of seniors who plan to wear graduation stoles based on their ethnic backgrounds during commencement. Professor Dwight Murphey planned on skipping...

What's New.(Guidelines for availability of health services for college athletes established; California State U. and California Community College system hve understanding to increase no. of transfer students.)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives Nearly 450,000 students play college sports each year. But there are fewer than 3,500 allied health-care providers on hand daily to provide for their safety. That's one allied health-care provider...

Bush Urges Top 20 Percent of Senior Classes to Apply at Fla. Colleges.(Governor Jeb Bush encourages best students to apply to Florida state universities)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- State universities still decide who gets in, but Gov. Jeb Bush and top education officials are encouraging all the state's high school seniors in the top 20 percent of their class this year to apply. So far, out of...

Alabama State Pushing to be First HBCU in NCAA Division I-A.(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama State University Board of Trustees here has decided to push forward efforts to become the first historically Black institution to move to Division I-A football despite concern and skepticism among some university...

Mandela Touts Education on Louisiana Tour.(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... BATON ROUGE, LA. -- In his first trip to the deep South last month, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela repeatedly emphasized the importance of education, particularly to Black communities struggling to shed the remnants of racial...

Remembering Brown with Reminders that Hurdles Remain.(increased use of standardized tests having negative impact on education of minority students, report from NAACP forum provides information on diversity in higher education)(Statistical Data Included)
June 8, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Ethnic diversity is considered a valuable commodity on the nation's college campuses and has not lowered student quality, according to a series of reports jointly released last month by the American Council on Education and...

African Americans & Agriculture.(change in the field of agricutural studies, research by agricultural scientists)
June 8, 2000... Scholars say students aren't aware of the unprecedented opportunities to do well -- and to do good -- in this stigmatized field "I was taught by my parents, who had been sharecroppers, that working on the land or with products from the land...

Top 100 Agriculture Degree Producers, 1998.(agricultural degrees awarded to minority students)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 8, 2000... TOTAL MINORITY ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES - AGRIBUSINESS & PRODUCTION Rank Institution State 96-97 1 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY A&T INSTITUTE Ohio - 2 TRENHOLM STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE...

Retilling the Field.(agricultural programs at historically Black land-grant institutions)(Statistical Data Included)
June 8, 2000... Historically Black land-grant institutions are growing agricultural programs despite a difficult climate. "As my mother used to say: `There's more than one way to get in a house other than going in the front door.'" That piece of...

Group Minds Its MANRRS & Cultivates Careers.(Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences holds 15th annual conference)
June 8, 2000... Minority organization seeks to attract youth to agriculture LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Bluegrass country seemed the perfect setting last month for a gathering of students planning careers in agriculture. The 15th annual Minorities in Agriculture,...

Low-Income Workers Getting a High-Tech Hand from U. of Maryland.(online learning with support from Goodwill, and several corporate sponsors)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... As a youngster growing up in Baltimore, Ingrid Hitchens imagined she would attend college one day. But after having a baby while in her teens, Hitchens let go of that plan and focused on taking care of her child. "I thought about going to...

Ga. Students to Pay Tech Fees Next Year.(Georgia public colleges to charge technology fee)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 8, 2000... ATLANTA -- Students on Georgia's public college campuses will pay a technology fee next fall, but what they get for their money will vary widely depending on where they go to school. Many students will be able to register for classes online...

U. of Tulsa to Assist in Fighting Hackers.(University's Center for Information Security to perform research in conjunction with Williams Communications)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... TULSA, Okla. -- The University of Tulsa is joining the fight against hackers and cyber attacks at the front line. The university is one of seven institutions chosen this year by the National Security Agency to develop new strategies for...

Ark. College Envisions Online Degree.(Cossatot Technical College asks for state approval)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... DeQUEEN, Ark. -- Cossatot Technical College is seeking state approval to become the first two-year college in Arkansas to offer a degree available entirely online. "Just because we are a small rural college doesn't mean we can't reach the...

Your Computer Chair Should be The Best Seat in the House.(the Aeron chair, the Leap chair, the BodyBilt task chair, and others)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
June 8, 2000... If you spend any amount of time working on a computer, the most important machine to you -- and the most overlooked -- is probably not the one you type on but the one you sit on. Chairs, specifically ergonomic ones adjustable in multiple ways,...

Emerson College Course to Explore Web of Hate.(students to study how extremist groups are using the Internet)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... BOSTON -- An image of a slain gay man burns in hell on one. The "FBI" has declared war on White Christians on another. A third pretends to pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr., then suggests the civil rights leader was a sex fiend, a communist...

The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, & Hope.(Review)
June 8, 2000... The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, & Hope By Drew Leder and Cornel West Rowman & Littlefield 224 pages $23.95 Currently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are...

All Things Censored.(Review)
June 8, 2000... All Things Censored Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, John Wideman and Alice Walker Seven Stories Press 272 pages $29.95 Currently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are people of...

War Criminals And Desegregation.(the slow progress of school integration and the delay in bringing to justice the men responsible for the 1963 bombing in Birmingham, Alabama)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... May 17 was the 47th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court finding in Brown vs. Board of Education. That finding was, of course, more than a simple court ruling. It was a finding that the court said should be implemented "with all deliberate...

BIQ Black Issues Quiz.(quiz on people, places and issues in fight for equal education in the U.S.)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... 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...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(appointments and promotions at U.S. universities and colleges)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... Huston-Tillotson Gets New Leader DR. LARRY L. EARVIN has been named the fifth president of Huston-Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. Earvin's career in higher education spans 26 years at Clark Atlanta University, where he served as dean...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(to universities, colleges, and professors)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... * Jackson State University has received a $9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to research and dew, lop intervention programs for Blacks infected with HIV. The programs will help community-based organizations to use the most...

Eliminating the Last Vestiges of Segregation.(federal policy on desegration as it pertains to Black colleges and universities)(Brief Article)
June 8, 2000... I was recently asked to speak at the annual President's Leadership Summit of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and provide the group with an update of federal higher education desegregation activity. The question-and-answer period that...

Challenge Grant Program Clears House Committee Hurdle.(college completion challenge grant program)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- A new multimillion-dollar program that Congressional Black Caucus members have deemed a priority has moved a step closer to reality. The college completion challenge grant program, proposed by President Clinton and U.S. Reps....

Black Colleges Get More Time to Work on Defaults.(proposed bill allows longer loan repayment time)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Legislation likely to gain approval in Congress would allow historically Black colleges an extra two years to work on their loan default problems without penalty. The bill would give HBCUs until July 1, 2004, to straighten...

Senators Push for $75 Million for Hispanic Colleges.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, last month urged their colleagues to support a proposal from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities here for record new funds for Hispanic college...

House Committee Nixes Pell Grant Increase.(no increase in grants for low-income students)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Members of the House of Appropriations Committeeturned down calls last month by Democratic members to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $3,800. The Republican-controlled committee instead approved another plan that would...

South African Presidents Visits Howard.(Thabo M. Mbeki visists Howard University)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Howard University Board of Trustees Chairman Frank Savage, and Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, pose with His Excellency Thabo M. Mbeki, president of the Republic of South Africa, as he receives a doctor of laws...

Doctoral Program Decision Deferred In Baltimore.(Morgan State University fears duplication of proposed doctoral programs at Towson University, University of Baltimore)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... BALTIMORE -- A decision on new doctoral programs at two Baltimore-area public universities, opposed by Morgan State University on the grounds they would unnecessarily duplicate programs at the predominantly Black school, has been deferred,...

U. of Wash. Humor Publication In Hot Water for Prison Piece.(University of Washington student newspaper publishes offensive article)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... SEATTLE -- Top officials and minority students at the University of Washington are angry over a made-up story that appeared in the student humor publication, The Mutt. The article, published last month, says the university will meet its...

Moses Tapped to Lead American Assoc. of Higher Education.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Officials here at the American Association of Higher Education have announced that Dr. Yolanda T. Moses, the embattled former president of the City University of New York's City College, has been appointed president of the...

What's New Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... United University Professions, the union representing academic and professional faculty at the State University of New York, and the American Association of University Professors, a national, nonprofit higher education organization, have...

Miss. College Board Draws Fire for Lack of Diversity.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... JACKSON, Miss. -- Gov. Ronnie Musgrove's newly appointed College Board members are fending off criticism that they will be unable to resolve the decades-old desegregation lawsuit in Mississippi because they are White. The new board...

Montana May Implement Writing Test as College Requirement.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... BOZEMAN, Mont. -- The Montana Board of Regents here is considering requiring high school students to pass a writing test to enter the state's four-year colleges. College students also would be required to prove they can write well before...

Ohio Affirmative Action Case Will Go to Trial.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... CINCINNATI -- A federal appeals court has ordered that a trial be conducted for a former University of Cincinnati official who was fired after he questioned the school's commitment to affirmative action. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S....

Fla. Bombing Trial Changes Venue.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A federal judge has moved the trial of a White man accused of setting off two pipe bombs at predominantly Black Florida A&M University to Pensacola due to pretrial publicity in the case. Besides the bombing charges,...

Clarence Thomas to Teach Creighton Law Class.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... OMAHA, Neb. -- Officials at Creighton University's School of Law here have announced that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will co-teach a one-credit course related to constitutional theory with Creighton law professor Mike Fenner....

Colleges Battered By Spring Storm.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... GREENSBORO, N.C. -- North Carolina A&T State University and Bennett College here were among several city colleges hit hard by a tornado-like storm late last month. The sight of fallen oak and pine trees was common on both campuses, and...

Report Predicts Surge in Minority Enrollment by 2015.
June 22, 2000... PRINCETON, N.J. -- Minority stunts are expected to swell the ranks undergraduates over the next 15 years, pushing enrollments in higher education up by more than 2.6 million students. But while racial or ethnic minorities will represent a...

NCAA Report Finds Little Diversity In Sports Administration.
June 22, 2000... Percentage of Black athletics directors drops, other positions make little gains INDIANAPOLIS -- Diversity hiring in college athletics is a grand illusion. That's what the National Collegiate Athletic Association's latest race report...

Survey Confirms Tribal College Role in Alleviating Unemployment.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- A new national survey reveals that tribal college graduates do very well in the workplace, offering new hope that higher education can be a big boost to one of the nation's poorest and most undereducated minority groups. The...

Scholarship from the Stacks.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Former librarian leaves $289, 000 to Ohio institution to create fund for students WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- No one on Central State University s campus here remembers much about Esther Crenshaw Bronston. After all, she retired 32 years ago, and...

Out of the Default Danger Zone.(Central State University in Ohio student loan defaults in acceptable range)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- Central State University here has received a highly anticipated and quite welcome notice from the U.S. Department of Education: It is no longer threatened with being booted out of the federal student loan program. The...

Is It Just a Campaign `COMMITMENT'?
June 22, 2000... Despite Texas' election-year settlement with the Office of Civil Rights, future HBCU funding levels remain uncertain AUSTIN, Texas -- Funny what a political election can do for higher education. Some schools in key communities get greater...

FAMOUS Last Words.(Preston King)
June 22, 2000... African Americans are being sought out to deliver commencement speeches In 1961, he fled the country. He had accused the U.S. military of discontinuing his academic deferment after officials learned that he was African American. When he...

Minority Convocations Lend Cultural Flavor to Celebration.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... PHOENIX -- When Alejandro Contreras graduated last month from Arizona State University, he was thinking about his migrant-worker parents' mud-caked shoes. "You see our shoes?" Contreras remembers his tired mother saying after returning...

The Stories Behind the Numbers: Black Issues Salutes Outstanding Members of the Class 2000.
June 22, 2000... 1 Christine Lincoln, is congratulated by a fellow graduate after accepting the Sophie Kerr award during commencement exercises at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. Lincoln received the $53,266 award for being the graduating senior with the...

Move Over, DeVRY ...(more Afro-Americans studying computer science)
June 22, 2000... HBCUs make advances in awarding technology degrees TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Last January, Ogor Onuorah's computer science education took an interesting twist when she signed up as a researcher for the Advanced Distributed Simulation Research...

Degree-Producer Analysis Offers GOOD & BAD NEWS.(minority graduate numbers up, except for Hispanics)
June 22, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The number of African American students earning college degrees continues to increase at all categories of institutions, according to Black Issues in Higher Education's annual survey of the Top 100 degree producers. Going by the...

The Top 100: Interpreting the Data.(postsecondary institutions granting the most degrees to students of color)(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 2000... For the ninth consecutive year, we present to you one of the simplest and most compelling rankings of higher education data: listings of the institutions that confer the most postsecondary degrees to students o f color. As with any ranking...

For Scholarship Searches, Internet is Right on the Money.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... EVANSTON, Ill.-- Tavia Evans barely knew what the Internet was, let alone how to use it, until her junior year of high school. But the honor student decided to try her luck online anyway as she searched for college cash, plugging in phrases...

Firewalls Offer PC Protection from Online Outlaws.(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
June 22, 2000... On any given day, hackers try to breach my Internet-connected computers a half-dozen or more times, either trying to take control of my PCs with "trojan" or "zombie" programs or else looking for a server from which to launch such attacks...

Online Students Become Master's in Their Domain.(students earn degrees on Internet)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... URBANA, Ill. -- David Stone made some good friends in the classes he took during two years in the master s of education degree program at the University of Illinois. He was looking forward to seeing them at a post-graduation party -- some...

Preparing a Nation's Teachers: Models for English and Foreign Language Programs.
June 22, 2000... Preparing a Nation's Teachers: Models for English and Foreign Language Programs By Phyllis Franklin David Ernst Laurence and Elizabeth Welles Modern Language of Association of American, 1999 422 pages Paperback: $22.00 We all know...

Career consultants.(academic career changes)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... DEAR CAREER CONSULTANTS: When is the best time to make an academic leadership career move? What are some positive and negative benchmarks? Dr. Tanya R. Saunders Assistant Provost for Special Programs Ithaca College Ithaca, N.Y. ...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Southern University at New Orleans Gets New Chancellor DR. JOSEPH BOUIE JR. has been selected to become the chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans. He is the fifth chancellor and the first alumnus to hold the position. Bouie has...

More Must be Done for Minority Education.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Black Issues has performed a great service for the American people by sharing the results of its annual survey on African Americans who have earned college degrees. Behind these data are great stories of human sacrifice, faith, perseverance,...