Black Issues in Higher Education articles from June 2002

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from June 2002

Revisiting some of history's most controversial figures. (Editor's Note).
June 6, 2002... When assistant editor Kendra Hamilton mentioned this year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin and suggested visiting the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Conn., I thought it could make for an...

Budget, evaluations pose challenges for TRIO; Bush budget labels upward bound program as `ineffective'. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... National TRIO advocates came before a House of Representatives panel recently to seek more funding for 2003 and to clarify what it terms as misleading information about one of their core activities--the Upward Bound program. In its fiscal...

Congress looking for ways to solve Pell Grant shortfall. (Washington Update).(education aid)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... Congress may find a way out of the Pell Grant shortfall yet, based on recent action in the House of Representatives. A declining economy has sent more young adults back to school and created a $1.3 billion shortfall in the nation's primary...

Colleges face new visa tracking rules. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Colleges and universities would have to adopt a new online tracking system for foreign students under a new U.S. Justice Department plan. By next January, the Justice Department wants all postsecondary institutions to use a new...

Michigan: a case the Supreme Court cannot ignore: speculation now on how justices will vote. (Noteworthy News).(affirmative action)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... CINCINNATI Many legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high...

SUNO board forgoes search, appoints new chancellor: faculty leaders protest move; board cites accreditation concerns as reason for rush. (Noteworthy News).(Southern University at New Orleans)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... BATON ROUGE, LA. Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) faculty leaders are crying foul over a move by the school's governing board to hire a new chancellor without a search. It's the latest controversy at the same campus that was...

University of Louisville stakes Black cancer reduction rates on filling endowed chair. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... LOUISVILLE, KY. The University of Louisville will try to recruit a top national researcher for a position created last month to lead efforts to reduce cancer rates among Blacks. The university formed an endowed chair in oncology as part of...

UCLA School of Medicine receives record gift of $200 million. (Noteworthy News).(David Geffen)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... LOS ANGELES The UCLA School of Medicine last month received the largest donation ever in the entire University of California system. David Geffen, entertainment executive and philanthropist, donated $200 million to the school, which will...

Higher education community offers policy-makers blueprint for foreign study. (Noteworthy News).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... WASHINGTON The American Council on Education (ACE) along with 33 other higher education organizations last month proposed a blueprint for the federal government and policy-makers to enhance U.S. policy on international education. The...

Barnard study links gender, academic success among Mexican Americans. (noteworthy news).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... NEW YORK Barnard sociology professor Dr. Robert Smith's research shows that Mexican American females are more selective when it comes to education than their male counterparts. Interestingly, Smith's research connects the role of...

New initiative encourages American students to study in Australia. (noteworthy news).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... WASHINGTON With more than 140,000 Americans studying abroad and Australia serving as the sixth destination of choice for American students, IDP Education Australia has launched a new initiative and resource center to encourage students to...

Syracuse suspends fraternity after blackface incident. (noteworthy news).(Syracuse University)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... SYRACUSE, N.Y. Syracuse University has placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after one of its members went to a campus bar wearing blackface as part of a costume. The action followed a sit-in by about 65...

Graduation puts `Kemba's nightmare' further in the past. (noteworthy news).(Kemba Smith)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... RICHMOND, VA. Kemba Smith, who spent six years in prison before being freed by President Bill Clinton in December 2000, received her bachelor's degree from Virginia Union University last month. Smith, whose ordeal made her a national...

John Hope Franklin honored for lifetime achievement. (noteworthy news).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... NEW YORK Historian John Hope Franklin was awarded the Gold Medal in History by the American Academy of Arts and Letters last month for his long and distinguished career as a scholar, intellectual leader and civil rights advocate. ...

Florida county settles lawsuit on election day violations. (noteworthy news).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... TALLAHASSEE, FLA, A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and the NAACP, co-counsel People for the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) and other civil rights organizations. The civil rights groups, representing thousands...

Morehouse to benefit from settlement over controversial novel. (noteworthy news).(Morehouse College; The Wind Done Gone)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... ATLANTA The protectors of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind have dropped their yearlong battle to stop publication of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone, agreeing to an out-of-court settlement. Under the terms of the settlement,...

Oprah Winfrey endows NYU program for African women. (noteworthy news).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... NEW YORK The Oprah Winfrey Foundation has awarded a $2.5 million endowment to New York University's Wagner School of Public Service for the creation of The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program for African Women. The program, which will allow...

James Meredith returns to see son take top honors at Ole Miss. (noteworthy news).(University of Mississippi)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... OXFORD, Miss. Forty years after James Meredith was escorted through an angry mob to become the first Black to enroll at the University of Mississippi, his son graduated as the top doctoral student in the business school last month. "I...

The strange career of Uncle Tom: on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, scholars reflect on the legacy of the groundbreaking novel and its author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
June 6, 2002... Uncle Tom. It's one of the most inflammatory racial insults that a Black person can offer another. Not quite as powerful, or as controversial, as the "n" word, the term still packs a powerful punch of contempt. But once upon a time in the 19th...

Keeping Jim Crow alive: a Ferris State University museum aims to use the pain of racist and offensive material to educate and foster racial healing.(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... The pop-eyed, overweight and scarf-clad mammy. The silly, shiftless Sambo. They are a few of the ugly stereotypical images of Black Americans that many U.S. citizens--of all races--want to forget. But Dr. David Pilgrim won't let them....

Campaigning for access: activists and lawmakers launch effort to save federal initiatives on digital technology. (Tech Talk).(minority access)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... With limited private and campus funds, officials at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., tried to establish an Internet and computer-based tutoring system in some of Durham's poorest public schools. Limited funding enabled the...

Ball State to launch global distance education program. (tech brief).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... MUNCIE, IND. Thanks to a Web-based videoconferencing system, Ball State University students and students from around the globe soon will experience seminars and classes that will create global classrooms. Ball State is testing a system...

UNCF secures ExxonMobil award in technology campaign. (tech briefs).(United Negro College Fund)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... DALLAS The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has netted yet another big-dollar award in its highly successful UNCF Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign. ExxonMobil Foundation announced recently that it awarded UNCF a grant of $500,000....

Pennsylvania awards technology grants to colleges. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... HARRISBURG, PA. Pennsylvania's education secretary Charles B. Zogby has announced $4.1 million in grants for 23 Pennsylvania colleges and universities to improve campus information technology for students. Historically Black Lincoln...

Bulk e-mail doesn't have to be spam. (Personal Computing).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... E-mail is a hugely successful phenomenon, letting ordinary people communicate with far more people using far less effort than any previous communications medium. But this facility has its dark side--the incessant bombardment of e-mail in-boxes...

The weary need not apply: managing the transition from graduate student to professor. (BI Forum).(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... I am thrilled to have received, and accepted, an offer as an assistant professor at a university in Texas, and my family is quite happy for me as well. My mother is particularly excited. This is just about as prestigious as it gets for her--now...

Wilberforce University. (On The Move).(appointment)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... LAURA-LEE DAVIDSON has been appointed vice president for information services and institutional research at Wilberforce University in Ohio. Previously, Davidson was program manager for the Technology Transfer Project at the Executive Leadership...

Florida A&M University. (On The Move).(new president)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... DR. FRED J. GAINOUS has been appointed the ninth president of Florida A&M University. Previously, Gainous served as chancellor of the Alabama College System for 14 years. He earned his bachelor's from Florida A&M University, and a master's and...

University of the District of Columbia. (On The Move).(new president)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... DR. WILLIAM L. POLLARD is the new president of the University of the District of Columbia. Previously, Pollard served as dean of the School of Social Work at Syracuse University. Pollard earned a bachelor's from Shaw University, a master's from...

New Jersey Institute of Technology. (On The Move).(appointment)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... JOANN R. RAINES has been named director of student and alumni development in the Division of Career Development Services at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She earned a bachelor's from St. John's University and a master's from Columbia...

North Carolina A&T State University. (On The Move).(appointment)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... ROBERT M. USSERY has been promoted to the position of assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs for institutional research at North Carolina A&T State University. Ussery earned bachelor's and master's degrees from East Carolina University....

University of Miami. (On The Move).(appointment)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... DR. JAMES H. WYCHE has been appointed vice provost and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Most recently, he was interim president of Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Wyche earned a bachelor's from Cornell...

Grants & awards.(colleges and universities)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2002... Ball State University (Ind.) received a $1 million gift from retired history professor Phyllis Yuhas to help students study abroad and to help bring international students to campus. California State University-Northridge received $300,000...

Events.(African American education)
June 6, 2002... JULY July 7-12 16th Annual Academic Advising Summer Institute Wyndham Hotel Colorado Springs, Colo. Contact: National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Phone: (785) 532-5717 Fax: (785) 532-7732 E-mail: nacada@ksu.edu...

Engaging in academic racial profiling. (Last Word).(Candace de Russy)(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... SUNY Trustee Candace de Russy is quoted in Newsday (Feb. 4, 2002) as stating, "... most Black studies departments are flabby, feel-good programs that carry anti-American bias and do little to advance hard knowledge." And she further asserts,...

This year's top 100 offers two for one. (Editor's Note).(contents)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... It has been 11 years, but who's counting! It is that time of year again--when we publish the rankings of the top 100 institutions that graduate the most students of color. We did things a little differently this year. We combined both the...

`Thoughts for the day'. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
June 20, 2002... DEAR EDITOR: I want to say thank you to all those hands that take part in compiling every edition of Black Issues In Higher Education. I stopped in the middle of reading to respond to the May 23rd edition, specifically the first few pages....

Black, Hispanic Caucuses take aim at welfare bill. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... A new House-passed welfare reform bill is drawing criticism from African American and Hispanic lawmakers who claim the plan would make it difficult for low-income public aid recipients to get the education needed to prepare for quality jobs....

New legislation targets binge drinking among students. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... The District of Columbia's representative in Congress has introduced legislation to address binge drinking among college-age youth, proposing higher taxes on alcohol. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., cites new studies on binge drinking...

House approves Pell Grant remedy. (Washington Update).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... The House of Representatives has cleared legislation that will address most of the $1.3 billion shortfall in the Pell Grant program that has threatened to limit access to the government's main student aid grant program. A bill approved by...

Vision for a `New Fisk' has students, alumni asking `at what expense?' Survey shows president, students far apart on plans for reviving the HBCU. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).
June 20, 2002... NASHVILLE, TENN. Fisk University's newly elected president, Dr. Carolynn Reid-Wallace, has created quite a stir in Nashville and within the tightly woven Fisk community. It all started in March when she hinted that Fisk needed to be...

Criticism of Howard University Hospital residency programs raises questions. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Statistical Data Included)
June 20, 2002... WASHINGTON An unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington...

Connerly initiative would ban collection of racial data: proposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supporters. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).
June 20, 2002... Ward Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After...

Florida A&M University's College of Law will enroll first class in August; dean says law school may find its niche in sports, entertainment law, and commitment to public service. (Noteworthy news: the latest news from across the country).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... ORLANDO, FLA. Florida A&M University's College of Law in August is premiering its first incoming class since 1968, when the institution was closed down by the state. FAMU College of Law was closed one year after Florida State University's...

Teachers College honors civil rights pioneers. (Noteworthy news: from staff and news wire reports).(Columbia University)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... NEW YORK Graduates of Columbia University's Teachers College were reminded last month of the lasting importance of the civil rights movement and its influence on the struggle for equity in education. The university used the 2002...

Progress slow for minority football coaches. (Noteworthy news: from staff and news wire reports).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... EAST LANSING, MICH. Despite some recent high-profile hirings, progress has been slow for minority football coaches at universities, according to participants in a conference at Michigan State University. Among Division I-A schools,...

College faculty experience 4.3 percent salary increase. (Noteworthy news: from staff and news wire reports).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... WASHINGTON College faculty overall experienced a 4.3 percent salary increase, according to the 2001-02 Mid-Level Administrative/Professional Salary Survey, a report produced by the College and University Professional Association for Human...

Prairie View A&M president to retire. (Noteworthy news: from staff and news wire reports).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... PRAIRIE VIEW, TEXAS Dr. Charles Hines, the president of Prairie View A&M University, in a federal legal battle with faculty and staff members, said last month he would retire this fall. The Texas A&M University System immediately...

Heart failure in Blacks may signal `different disease'. (Noteworthy news: from staff and news wire reports).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... DALLAS According to Dr. Clyde Yancy, a researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, an emerging database of genetic variations in Black Americans could explain the differences in their response to traditional...

Research & reality: Morgan State takes two-prong approach to stemming educational leadership deficit. (Top 100 Degree Producers, 2000-2001)(Cover Story).
June 20, 2002... BALTIMORE Juanita Eagleson, a former associate dean at Southeastern University in Washington, was in the midst of a "career doldrums" when she heard that Dr. Howard Simmons, the former executive director of the Commission on Higher...

Filling the budget gap: university administrators face tough choices as states cut deep into higher education budgets. (Top 100 Degree Producers, 2000-2001).
June 20, 2002... Norfolk State University President Marie McDemmond hoped this year to tackle the university's student space shortage. Troubled that financial aid students spill out the doors of the administration building, and that admissions officers...

The Top 100: interpreting the data. (Top 100 Degree Producers, 2000-2001).
June 20, 2002... With each passing year, more than 200,000 people of color, including more than 100,000 African Americans, attain a bachelor's degree in higher education. Add to that tens of thousands who earn post-baccalaureate degrees and you can start to...

Top 100 Associate's Degrees, 2000-2001.
June 20, 2002... All Disciplines Combined TOTAL MINORITY ASSOCIATE'S '99-'00 Rank Institution State Total Two-Year Institutions 1 ...

Top 100 Baccalaureate Degrees, 2000-2001.
June 20, 2002... All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN AMERICAN BACCALAUREATE--TWIs vs. HBCUs '99-'00 Rank Institution State Total TWIs 1 ...

Top 100 Master's Degrees, 2000-2001.
June 20, 2002... All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN AMERICAN MASTER'S--TWIG vs. HBCUs '99-'00 Rank Institution State Total TWIs 1 ...

Top 100 First Professional Degrees, 2000-2001.(Statistical Data Included)
June 20, 2002... All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRST PROFESSIONAL--TWIs vs. HBCUs '99- '00 Rank...

Top 100 Doctorate Degrees, 2000-2001.(Statistical Data Included)
June 20, 2002... All Disciplines Combined AFRICAN AMERICAN DOCTORATE--TWIs vs. HBCUs '99- '00 ...

The anatomy of textbook publishing: complex publication process, lack of respect steer many scholars away from writing textbooks. (Faculty Club).(Statistical Data Included)
June 20, 2002... Everything else from your college days may be fading into the mists of middle age, but there's one thing you probably remember with utter clarity: the first time you had to shell out more than $50 for a textbook. Let's see, there was...

Virginia universities team up on nation's cyber security; focus on public policy and law gives research effort unique focus. (Tech Talk).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... ARLINGTON, VA. In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States, federal policymakers have taken measures to strengthen computer network security systems guarding the nation's vital database and infrastructure operations....

Consumer groups urge federal policy on digital access. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... WASHINGTON Although nearly two-thirds of all Americans now have access to the Internet, less affluent households run the risk of being shut out of the digital economy because they are not as likely to be online, according to a May report...

Connecticut State universities to expand online offerings. (tech briefs).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... HARTFORD, CONN. The Connecticut State University system has announced it has signed contracts with Campus Pipeline Inc., CollegisEduprise, SCT and WebCT to expand its distance-learning arm, OnlineCSU, and enhance online services for the...

People who love their computers too much. (Personal Computing).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... Joe, a computer programmer, was talking with his psychotherapist. "You've got to help me," he says. "I've fallen in love with my computer, but I know I can never marry her." "Well, it's good you haven't totally lost touch with reality,"...

Hoodwinked and bamboozled: Black colleges, desegregation and selling out. (BI Forum).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... It is a rainy Tuesday afternoon at the end of the semester. I am at home trying to grade final exams that are due by Friday. As I often do, I have a video playing quietly in the background. Today it has been Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" running...

Paul Quinn College. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... DR. DWIGHT J. FENNELL has been named president of Paul Quinn College in Dallas. Fennell served as interim president for the past year. Fennell earned a bachelor's from Saint Augustine's College, master's degrees from Atlanta University and...

School of Nursing at Tennessee State University. (On The Move).(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... MARY ELLA GRAHAM has been named dean of the School of Nursing at Tennessee State University. Previously she was dean and professor at the College of Nursing of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center. Graham earned a...

Georgia Institute of Technology. (On The Move).(Gary S. May appointed)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... DR. GARY S. MAY has been selected to serve as executive assistant to the president at Georgia Institute of Technology. May is currently associate chair of faculty development in electrical and computer engineering. May earned a bachelor's in...

North Carolina A&T State University. (On The Move).(appoints Tracey L. Phillips)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... TRACEY L. PHILLIPS has been appointed director of staff development at North Carolina A&T State University. Phillips has served in several positions at A&T since 1994. She earned a bachelor's from Bennett College (N.C.) and a master's from A&T....

Talladega College. (On The Move).(appoints Henry Ponder)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... DR. HENRY PONDER has been appointed the 18th president of Talladega College. Ponder had been serving as interim president since October. Previously, he was president of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Ponder...

College of Medicine at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. (On The Move).(appoints Marcelle Willock)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... DR. MARCELLE WILLOCK has been appointed the new dean of the College of Medicine at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles. Willock earned a bachelor's from Howard University, master's degrees from Teachers...

Grants & awards.(universities and colleges, United States)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 20, 2002... Albany State University (Ga.) has received $2 million from performing artist Ray Charles. The money will be used for scholarships and to help build a theater in the name of Charles' mother Aretha Robinson. The Louisiana Board of Regents...

Science, mathematics, engineering and technology: a clarion call. (Last Word).(sciences education and minority students in the United States)(Brief Article)
June 20, 2002... Just as the terrorist attacks on American soil have served as a clarion call to galvanize our nation's resolve to eradicate terrorism on a global basis, we need a similar clarion call in the eradication of educational barriers in order to meet...