Black Issues in Higher Education articles from March 1999

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from March 1999

Corporate Raiding.
March 4, 1999... The search for faculty members of color has led one organization to recruit doctoral candidates from the business world Four years ago, Dr. Alisa Mosley was working for Sprint Communications in Richardson, Texas, just outside of Dallas. She...

WASHINGTON UPDATE.
March 4, 1999... Riley Proposes Teacher Education Changes Education Secretary Richard Riley has outlined an ambitious blueprint to reform teacher education that may get support from two usual adversaries: teacher unions and congressional Republicans. ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
March 4, 1999... Gates and His "Harvard Fetish" Dear Editor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. styled himself as an "intellectual entrepreneur" (see Black Issues, Feb. 4). Notwithstanding the loose form of the word "intellectual," he is nothing of the kind. ...

UNC Officials Concerned About Enrollment, Test Scores at HBCUs.
March 4, 1999... CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Declines in enrollment and test scores at the University of North Carolina system's five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) may signal a change in the attitudes of Black students, a UNC administrator says....

Survey Finds More Women on Faculties, but Earn Less Pay.
March 4, 1999... WASHINGTON -- More women are becoming college professors but they receive lower pay and fewer promotions, a survey by the American Association for University Professors released earlier this month finds. Women made up 22.5 percent of all...

What's New.
March 4, 1999... Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives Florida A&M University has begun an innovative distance learning project designed to help working pharmacists earn an Executive Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Currently, the course is available to...

Jackson State Faculty Complain About Funding.
March 4, 1999... JACKSON, Miss. -- Jackson State University needs to hire more professors and scale back its growing administration, the president of the JSU Faculty Senate says, claiming that "excessive administrative expansion" since 1992 is draining dollars...

Black, Brown, and White Student Enrollment Dips at UT-Austin.
March 4, 1999... AUSTIN, Texas -- Enrollment of Black, Hispanic, and White students has dipped at the University of Texas-Austin compared with last spring, according to preliminary figures of those choosing to disclose ethnicity. The number of Asian American...

Fraternity Suspended at Mississippi State for Hazing Incident.
March 4, 1999... STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The Omega Psi Phi fraternity at Mississippi State University (MSU) has been suspended after a student pledge paddled in a hazing incident required medical attention. Two MSU students, both upperclassmen, "administered...

Judge Urges Education Board, Institutions to Settle Their Differences.
March 4, 1999... AUSTIN, Texas -- A judge has urged higher education officials to try to expedite a settlement of a dispute concerning ties between Texas A&M University and the South Texas College of Law. State District Judge Suzanne Covington told...

Former Student Guilty of Making Ethnic E-Mail Threats.
March 4, 1999... LOS ANGELES -- A Chinese American college student who e-mailed a death threat to Hispanic professors, students, and officials across the country agreed last month to plead guilty to seven misdemeanor crimes and likely will serve 30 months in...

Teaching the Literature of Toni Morrison the Focus of Princeton Conference.
March 4, 1999... PRINCETON, N.J.--Award-winning author Toni Morrison offered scholars and fans a rare glimpse into her writing life at a Princeton University conference last month where scholars from around the country gathered for a critical examination of her...

UH Students Seek Tuition Waivers for Native Hawaiians.
March 4, 1999... HONOLULU -- Approximately 100 Hawaiian studies students from the University of Hawaii (UH) rallied at the state Capitol last month in support of tuition waivers for Native Hawaiians. Haunani Kay Trask, former director of the Center for...

Financial Aid in UDC's Future -- Possibly.
March 4, 1999... Washington -- A bipartisan effort to increase postsecondary options for District of Columbia students could add federal funding to the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) budget, if Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- the District's...

Not a Class Action.
March 4, 1999... Judge rules that passage of Washington State's Initiative 200 downgrades status of reverse discrimination lawsuit Seattle -- In a move that many observers feel undercuts the antiaffirmative action campaign, a federal judge has ruled that a...

Keeping the Flame Burning.
March 4, 1999... Musician scholars revisit Coltrane's Africa/Brass in a celebration of the legacy of African American music Amherst, Mass. -- French horns wail against crooning saxophones and blaring trumpets, while enigmatic euphoniums puff along to the...

Videoconference Examines the Rising Influence of Black Literature.
March 4, 1999... Washington -- The current explosion of Black literature signals what several observers believe is the leading edge of an overall literary renaissance. Last month some of the newest voices in this burgeoning industry pondered its meaning...

21st Century Pioneer.
March 4, 1999... Rensselaer picked me as the kind of person they needed to lead them into the next century. --Dr. Shirley Jackson The current one on her desk at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) features a changing schematic of designs for...

BI THE NUMBERS.
March 4, 1999... Distribution of Faculty by Full-or Part-Time Status, Tenure Status, and Gender, 1975(6) and 1995 NUMBER OF PERCENT OF NUMBER OF YEAR (FALL) ALL FACULTY ALL FACULTY WOMEN All Full-Time Faculty 1975...

Education's Weak Link.
March 4, 1999... SREB report exposes the wide-spread lack of proper training and certification for teachers at the middle-school level in the South When students leave the middle grades with low academic achievement, they are often guided into less...

The Importance Of Giving Black.
March 4, 1999... Successful trial lawyer and philanthropist Willie Gary discusses the growing need for alumni giving at HBCUs Legendary trial attorney Willie E. Gary stands tall in the American legal community for his skill at winning verdicts in personal...

Where the Elite Meet -- Electronically.
March 4, 1999... Although the high price of joining the Internet2 is keeping membership down, many institutions are coming to realize they can't afford not to join the club Austin, Texas -- Two years ago, a handful of big-name universities put up some big...

Legislators Seek to Overturn Part of Hopwood Ruling.
March 4, 1999... AUSTIN, Texas -- Some state lawmakers are hoping new Attorney General John Cornyn could have a new -- and narrower -- interpretation of a federal court ruling that resulted in public universities ending consideration of race in admissions and...

Ayers Attorney Questions Proposed Admission Policies of University Extension.
March 4, 1999... JACKSON, Miss. -- The State College Board met last month with its lawyers to discuss questions raised in a complaint over whether university expansion on the Gulf Coast will impact Mississippi's historically Black colleges (HBCUs). ...

Oregon Universities Developing New Scholarship Programs.
March 4, 1999... CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Oregon State University (OSU) has followed the University of Oregon with a new scholarship program to lure students in a competitive market for higher education. Independent colleges have responded with a plan for a new...

Growth of Hispanic Population Worries Georgia Educators.
March 4, 1999... ATHENS, Ga. -- Despite a growing Hispanic population throughout Georgia, experts say the state has been unprepared to receive the immigrants and the future doesn't hold much promise. During a University of Georgia conference on the state of...

Nationwide Student Campaign Opposes Drug Provision of HEA.
March 4, 1999... WASHINGTON -- A national student-led campaign is underway to raise awareness and opposition to a provision in last year's Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization that would deny or delay federal financial aid to students convicted of drug...

Lincoln Considers Banning Greek Organizations.
March 4, 1999... LOWER OXFORD, Pa. -- Lincoln University is considering banning fraternities and sororities on campus after a hazing incident that seriously wounded a student. Eugene Sanders, 21, was beaten near the Lincoln campus as part of pledge...

CORRECTION.
March 4, 1999... In the Feb. 4 edition of Black Issues In Higher Education, Dr. Frank Royal, chairman of the board of trustees at Virginia Union University, was incorrectly quoted as having said that VUU President-elect Bernard Franklin, "will have to face up...

Talisman.(Review)
March 4, 1999... Talisman By Afaa M. Weaver Tia Chucha Press, 1998 Chicago 95 pages Paperback: $10.95 A couple of years ago, I was teasing Afaa Weaver about his heart. I told him where I could obtain some cheap parts. Like many male African Americans,...

Career CONSULTANTS.
March 4, 1999... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: I have received an M.A. degree in history and have done service projects in West Africa. My ultimate goal is to be a director of international student affairs. In order to get there, I need a doctorate degree,...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
March 4, 1999... SLADE APPOINTED ACTING PRESIDENT AT TEXAS SOUTHERN DR. PRISCILLA DEAN SLADE has been appointed acting president of Texas Southern University by its board of regents. Most recently, she was dean of the School of Business at Texas Southern,...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
March 4, 1999... * Barry University has been awarded a $146,000 Internet Teacher Training Grant from the Deaver Foundation. The grant will be used to train 100 K-12 South Florida teachers on how to use the Internet in their classrooms. * The City...

Appreciating and committing to HBCUs.
March 4, 1999... As we enter the 21st century, it is important to reflect on the status of African Americans in higher education and the critical role that historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to play in preparing the next generation of...

QUOTE OF NOTE.
March 18, 1999... "This is a national emergency we must fix. The key to creating equal opportunity is to start with an equal and adequate education for all our children." --Rep. Chaka Fattah (D.Pa.), calling for federal legislation requiring states to...

Fattah Takes Aim At Equalization.(Chaka Fattah)
March 18, 1999... Last year, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) led efforts to pass an early college outreach program for at-risk youngsters. This year, he has his sights on a different goal: a bill to guarantee equal funding for poor and affluent school districts. ...

NASA Budget Cuts Education Funds.
March 18, 1999... The Clinton Administration wants to increase Education Department support for minority-serving institutions next year, but it's a different story at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. The year 2000 NASA budget plan calls for a funding...

Clinton, GOP Offer Contrasting Plans.(Bill Clinton)
March 18, 1999... President Bill Clinton and congressional Republicans are on a collision course for a battle over federal involvement in education this year. The President in late February outlined plans to demand more accountability from schools if they...

The Plight of Black Graduate Students.
March 18, 1999... Dear Editor: I am a doctoral student in higher education administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a subscriber to Black Issues. I must say that I enjoy many things about the publication and I consider it to be a thread...

New Nigerian President Has Allegiance to Wilberforce.
March 18, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio (AP) -- Wilberforce University is anticipating closer ties to Africa since one of its trustees has been elected president of Nigeria, the continent's most populous country. Retired Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, who has served on...

UW Revises Application Review Process Toward Goal of Preserving Diversity.
March 18, 1999... SEATTLE -- In a bid to encourage diversity despite passage last fall of Initiative 200 -- which essentially ended affirmative action in school admissions and government contracting and hiring in the state of Washington -- the University of...

Mabry Resignation Raises Questions at Stanford Law.(Linda Mabry)
March 18, 1999... STANFORD, Calif. The resignation of a popular Black law professor has raised new questions about Stanford Law School's ability to retain minority and female faculty. Professor Linda Mabry, who taught international business law here for six...

CSUN's First Black Woman President Resigns.(California State University, Northridge)
March 18, 1999... NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -- California State University-Northridge (CSUN) President Blenda J. Wilson announced on March 3 that she is ending her sometimes stormy, seven-year tenure at the Los Angeles-based university to take a job with an education...

Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives.
March 18, 1999... New York Medical College has launched a new program designed to identify, recruit, and prepare promising high school and college students for careers in medicine, science, and health professions. Believed to be the first of its kind in New York...

After Sit-In, U. Rochester Agrees to Recruit More Minorities.
March 18, 1999... ROCHESTER, N.Y.-A four-hour sit-in here by about 200 University of Rochester students resulted in an agreement with administrators to seek more minority students. Of 4,262 full-time undergraduates, there are 249 African American and 190...

Retention Problems Foil Connecticut's Soaring Black and Latino Enrollment Rate.
March 18, 1999... HARTFORD, Conn. -- Black and Latino students are enrolling at Connecticut's public colleges in record numbers, but too many drop out before graduating, according to a report by the state department of higher education. The report, released...

Enrollment Applications Up at Central State University.
March 18, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- If fall enrollment applications are an indication, Central State University is rebounding from a fiscal and management crisis that nearly caused state officials to shut it down. Late last month, Central State had...

Judge Rules Against NCAA's Freshman Eligibility Requirements.
March 18, 1999... PHILADELPHIA -- A federal judge here ruled on March 8 that the National Collegiate Athletics Association's freshman eligibility standards violate federal civil rights laws, saying that the NCAA regulations have an "unjustified" impact on...

CORRECTION.
March 18, 1999... During the editing process of The Last Word in Black Issue's February 18, 1999, edition, we failed to omit a word -- "not" -- that changed the meaning of a sentence explaining the relationship between White women who date interracially and...

Tutu Thanks the World for Supporting Racial Justice In S. Africa.
March 18, 1999... CONWAY, S.C. -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu thanked the world for its support in helping South Africa achieve racial justice and urged students to dream of peace during an address last month at Coastal Carolina University. "Dream, dream, dream...

Hispanic Students End Protest, Return Thousands of Books.
March 18, 1999... EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Hispanic student activists at Michigan State University ended a 24-hour protest late last month by returning thousands of books to the university's main library. The protest by members of MEXA de MSU was meant to...

S.C. State to be Transportation Research Center.
March 18, 1999... ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- A multi-million dollar federal grant will help South Carolina State University become this state's transportation research and education center. The $3.5 million in federal funding announced last month was in the form...

U Mass Confusion.(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
March 18, 1999... Spooked by a string of legal challenges to race-sensitive admissions policies across the nation, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst rethinks diversity strategy AMHERST, Mass. -- The onslaught of legal challenges to race-based...

Conference Black Out.
March 18, 1999... The AAHE's Black Caucus will not attend the year 2000 annual meeting in protest of association's decision to meet in hostile California environment When the American Association for Higher Education meets in California in 2000, members of...

Massey Addresses Affirmative Action at ACE.
March 18, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Morehouse College President Walter Massey was this year's opening speaker at the 81st annual meeting of the American Council on Education, which attracted some 1,300 higher education leaders from around the country. Massey...

Black & Latino Studies Group Expands Multicultural Reach.
March 18, 1999... HOUSTON -- If there had been a glass anywhere around, Dr. Ellen Foster Randle would have broken it. When she belted an ear-piercing ditty -- a Negro spiritual woeful of the pains slave mothers endured upon separation from their children -- many...

Help Wanted.
March 18, 1999... A high number of leadership vacancies offers the beleaguered Los Angeles Community College District a unique opportunity to usher in a new era LOS ANGELES -- In an unusual turn of events, eight top leadership seats are up for grabs here at...

From Boys to Men.(conference on black entrepreneurship)
March 18, 1999... `Man-Child' conference instructs young Black males about the importance of education and entrepreneurship LOS ANGELES -- Thomas-Robertson was director of the Southwest Los Angeles College Women's Center, when a young man asked her to...

Biomedical Research Warfare.
March 18, 1999... Dr. Patrick Allen, a University of Colorado-Boulder researcher, is spearheading a Black biomedical research movement to urge more African Americans to investigate the health issues that impact their communities. BOULDER Colo. -- When Dr....

Saving Black Lives.
March 18, 1999... In the wake of a new report by the Institute of Medicine, which shows a disproportionately low federal investment in cancer research among minorities, some researchers are demanding a change The way Dr. Lucile L. Adams-Campbell sees it,...

Diversifying LBJ's Legacy.(Lyndon Baines Johnson)
March 18, 1999... The dean of the University of Texas' Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs strives to ensure that the school's graduates reflect the diversity of the public they eventually will serve. AUSTIN, Texas -- Dr. Edwin Dorn is standing...

Black Issues Quiz.
March 18, 1999... 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...

Will New Technologies Widen Global Inequality?
March 18, 1999... A CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EXPLORES SETTING A NEW SOCIAL AGENDA FOR THE INTERNET COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Are new information technologies helping to widen the social and economic gap between the world's poor and wealthy?...

Lessons in leadership.
March 18, 1999... In the past several months, I've visited more than a dozen campuses, and have been struck by the similarity of concerns that African American students articulate. Whether they are on the West Coast, in the South, in the Midwest, or in the...

The Color of Our Future: Our Multiracial Future.(Review)
March 18, 1999... The Color of Our Future: Our Multiracial Future By Farai Chideya William Morrow, 1999 New York 288 pages Hard back: $23 "COMMUNITY CANNOT FOR LONG FEED ON ITSELF; IT CAN ONLY FLOURISH WITH THE COMING OF OTHERS FROM BEYOND, THEIR...

Career CONSULTANTS.
March 18, 1999... DEAR BI CAREER CONSULTANTS: Next month I will complete my doctorate in higher education administration. Since 1997, I have worked at a small, private liberal arts institution where I am the only person of color employed by the college. My...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
March 18, 1999... ACADEMIC DR. MELVIN C. TERRELL has been named vice president for Student Affairs/Public Affairs at Northeastern Illinois University. He previously served as vice president for student affairs and professor of counselor education. Terrell...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
March 18, 1999... * Florida Memorial College has been awarded a $100,000 grant from The Hearst Foundation. The gift will be used for the college's Honors Program. * Georgia Institute of Technology has received a five-year, 730,000 grant from the Lockheed...

Reflections After 15 years.
March 18, 1999... Sometimes you've got to go on blind faith, fortitude, hard work, and confidence. And even then, the odds of success are minimal. Fifteen years ago, when we started Black Issues In Higher Education, we had no idea that, even with the above...