Black Issues in Higher Education articles from November 1999

Black Issues in Higher Education archives from November 1999

Medical Research Grants Shortchange HBCUs, but Science Bill Looks Promising.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Historically Black colleges are getting just a small piece of the medical research pie, says Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., who is trying to see that Congress takes some action on the issue this fall. HBCUs in 1997 received less...

Tax Break for Colleges.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- The nation's colleges and universities do not have to pay taxes on income generated from specialized credit cards that bear their names, logos or mascots, a federal appeals court has ruled. The ruling by a three-judge panel of...

Colleges Dominate Possible Presidential Debate Sites.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Ten colleges and universities across the country are among the dozen sites that have submitted proposals to host presidential and vice-presidential debates next year, the Commission on Presidential Debates says. The...

Pierce to Resign From American Association of Community Colleges.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Dr. David R. Pierce, president and chief executive officer of the American Association of Community Colleges for the past nine years, announced late last month that he will step down in August. Pierce, who graduated from a...

Justice Thomas Dedicates Law Building.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Despite some protests, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received a standing ovation after dedicating a new law school building at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., late last month. Six protesters held signs...

Nurses, Support Staff Approve Contract with Howard U. Hospital.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Nurses at Howard University Hospital approved a three-year contract late last month that ended a day-long strike, provides for a 7 percent base pay increase and permits forced overtime only in emergencies. "We got everything...

House Committee Targets Funds for Poor, Defeats Vouchers.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Pushing aside school voucher plans, a House committee voted overwhelmingly last month to continue targeting federal funds to the nation's poorest children, with a new emphasis on public school choice and quality teachers. By...

Protest by Black Students Wins Reprieve of Decision on Student Union.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Black students at the University of North Florida rallied for the preservation of the African American Student Union after a student government agency decided the organization was unconstitutional. The decision last...

UCLA Law Students Protest Against Admission Policies.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... LOS ANGELES -- About 200 students and professors staged a walkout here late last month to protest admissions policies at the University of California-Los Angeles where only two Black students are among the law school's freshman class. ...

Former Central State President Challenges Arbitration Decision.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- The former president of Central State University last month challenged an arbitration panel's ruling that would have forced him to repay about one-third of the severance pact he reached with university officials in 1995....

Racially Tinged Display Removed.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University officials late last month forced an African American student to take down a display that included a racial epithet referring to Blacks less than 24 hours after it went up. The display, said to have...

What's New.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives The University of Missouri-Columbia has instituted a new Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative designed to recruit and train underrepresented minority graduate students as researchers....

State Senator Says Not Enough Blacks in Nevada Medical School.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... CARSON CITY, Nev. -- State Sen. Joe Neal has renewed his criticism of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, noting there are only 11 Blacks among nearly 1,000 students who graduated from the school since 1980. Neal, a North Las...

Women Basketball Players Sue Over Treatment by Coach.(Brief Article)
November 11, 1999... BOSTON -- Three former players on the University of Massachusetts women's basketball team have filed a lawsuit against the school because they say their coach's yelling, insults and obscenities made their personal lives unbearable. Kara...

U.S. Med Schools Report Lowest Minority Application Rate in Seven Years.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... The Association of American Medical Colleges say Black male presence continues to decline at an alarming rate WASHINGTON -- The percentage of underrepresented people of color applying to medical school has fallen to its lowest level in...

EXPANDING The Top Tier.(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... College Board calls for `affirmative development' to enlarge pool for high-achieving students of color NEW YORK -- Although considerable national efforts have been directed at bringing poor students and students of color up to minimal...

Fighting for Scholarships in OKLAHOMA.
November 11, 1999... Fearing that the federal district court in Oklahoma City might shut down a state-financed merit scholarship program targeted by a discrimination lawsuit, Oklahoma State Rep. Opio Toure (D-Oklahoma City) and other Black Democratic legislators...

Putting Oklahoma in Context.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... The great risk as the backlash to affirmative action continues is that schools will decide to give up their goals of racial diversity, not that they will be forced to do so. They may retreat prematurely, in some instances without much regret...

Higher Education in Oklahoma.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... Colleges & Universities Public 4-year institutions 13 Cameron University East Central University Langston University Northeastern State University Northwestern Oklahoma State...

Ressurecting the Thurman Legacy for the Next Millennium.
November 11, 1999... At the entrance to Morehouse College, stand two monuments to two giants of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dr. Howard Thurman. King's legacy looms large in the nation's memory. But while Thurman was a confidant to...

Unity Mural Gets New Life.
November 11, 1999... San Francisco City College Discovers New Lessons in Valuable Campus Mural SAN FRANCISCO -- College officials say they can't believe it was at one point almost forgotten, an important work of art packed away in crates and placed in some...

Hunters Become THE HUNTED.
November 11, 1999... In the current tight job market, it's not the graduating students who are doing the searching CINCINNATI -- Picnics, pizza parties and expense-paid trips are some of the methods companies are using to attract college students who a few...

A Chartered Fight.
November 11, 1999... Parents square off with Justice Department to challenge desegregation orders in attempt to save charter schools WASHINGTON -- Parents in one Baton Rouge, La., neighborhood were relieved when they first learned of the opening of a charter...

Playing Internet CATCH-UP.
November 11, 1999... Government's Dated count of Internet Users can be `Potentially Misleading' WASHINGTON -- The government announced recently that 57 million Americans logged onto the Internet -- in 1997. But among the lightning-fast changes in the online...

Professor Urges Students to Beware Hate Sites on the Internet.
November 11, 1999... DETROIT -- A Wayne State University communications professor and Holocaust survivor considers the Internet an increasingly used, effective marketing tool by hate groups. "The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to hate," Jack...

Federal, Local Authorities Seek University Computer Hacker.
November 11, 1999... CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Federal and local authorities are investigating a computer hacker who may have gained access to government files from a computer lab at West Virginia University. Federal agents launched the investigation last month,...

Four Ohio Colleges' Computers Invaded.
November 11, 1999... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hackers who invaded Wittenberg University's computers last month forced the institution to shut down its e-mail system and Web site. Their attack also resulted in security improvements that make it harder for off-campus...

E-Business Administration.
November 11, 1999... CHICAGO -- The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration has begun two new e-business/e-commerce education programs intended to address the growing demand by managers and information technology consultants who want to...

Former Student Accused of `Cybersquatting'.
November 11, 1999... DES MOINES, Iowa -- The world's largest seed company wants its name back. Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. is suing a former Iowa State University student and his Arizona-based company for buying an Internet address featuring the company's...

State, University Professors Reach Agreement on Contract.
November 11, 1999... HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Negotiators for the state and the union representing faculty at 14 state universities reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last month, just two hours before a strike moratorium set by the union was about to expire....

Committee Hears Testimony on Collective Bargaining for University.
November 11, 1999... MADISON, Wis. -- A bill that would give University of Wisconsin faculty and staff the right to collective bargaining was the subject of a legislative hearing before the state's Senate Education Committee last month. Currently, members of...

Calif. Senate Hopeful Running on Affirmative Action, Free College Platform.
November 11, 1999... SACRAMENTO -- A Los Angeles Democrat running for the U.S. Senate wants to bring back affirmative action and has even written an initiative that would overturn the 1996 measure that outlawed such programs in this state. The proposed ballot...

Sainthood Campaign for Founder of Xavier Clears Major Hurdle.
November 11, 1999... NEW ORLEANS -- Katharine Drexel, a millionaire heiress who renounced Philadelphia society to become a Catholic nun working among impoverished Blacks and American Indians and who later used her fortune to found Xavier University, has cleared the...

The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation: Black Colleges, Title VI Compliance and Post-Adams Litigation.(Review)
November 11, 1999... The Quest to Define Collegiate Desegregation: Black Colleges, Title VI Compliance and Post-Adams Litigation By M. Christopher Brown II Price: $49.95 Greenwood Publishing Group 192 pgs. Overcoming more than a century of discrimination...

Testing Your Diversity Knowledge.
November 11, 1999... The following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, as associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative Action Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict:...

Top 15 Baccalaureate Institutions of Minority Ph.D.s.(Statistical Data Included)
November 11, 1999... by Race, 1993-1997 (ranked by number) BLACKS Rank Institution Number 1 Howard University(*) 156 2 Wayne State University 79 3 Florida...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.
November 11, 1999... Suber to Head St. Augustine's DR. DIANNE BOARDLEY SUBER is the first woman to be named president of St. Augustine's College in North Carolina. Suber has been a professor, assistant provost and, most recently, vice president for...

GRANTS & AWARDS.
November 11, 1999... * Maharishi University of Management Fairfield, Iowa. received an $8 million grant from the National institutes of Health to establish the nation's first research center specializing in preventative medicine for minorities. * North...

Creating a Competitive Edge.
November 11, 1999... The "competitive edge" is more than imperative in today's recruitment climate for full-time, part-time, internship, and coop positions. Specifically, students of color have to understand that a 3.0 GPA and above, academic honors, and letters of...

Archbishop Tutu Undergoes Surgery for Cancer.
November 25, 1999... ATLANTA -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu underwent surgery here earlier this month at Emory University Hospital for prostate cancer treatment. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate underwent cryosurgery, a procedure in which liquid nitrogen is used to...

White Teachers Sue for Reverse Discrimination at North Carolina Historically Black College.
November 25, 1999... SALISBURY, N.C. -- Five current and former White college instructors have accused historically Black Livingstone College of denying them tenure and promotions. In a civil lawsuit filed in Rowan County Superior Court seeking hundreds of...

E-Dictionary Has Modest Beginning.
November 25, 1999... PHILADELPHIA -- A couple of technology gurus are looking for some eyeball time." Um. What? In other words, they want you to spend a lot of time looking at their company's Web site. "Eyeball hang time" is one of dozens of terms listed in a...

Letter to the Editor ...(Letter to the Editor)
November 25, 1999... Gray's Way: A Recommended Path Dear Editor: Black Issues is to be commended for the excellent interview and article regarding the exceptional accomplishments of the United Negro College Fund's chief executive officer, Bill Gray that...

Cuts Threaten Education Programs.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Across-the-board cuts in federal programs may hamper vital college programs, including the U.S. Department of Education's ability to process student-aid applications for grants and loans, the Clinton administration warns. In...

High Court Hears Controversial Fees Case.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month heard arguments in a case that may have major implications for campus-based organizations that represent students of color. The case focuses on the University of Wisconsin and its...

Drug Offenders Barred From Student Aid.
November 25, 1999... Some worry new policy could prove counterproductive WASHINGTON -- Students convicted of drug offenses will be barred from receiving federal college tuition aid for one year from date of conviction and, in some cases, permanently under rules...

HBCU Projects Win Federal Funds.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Political posturing and budget battles are the norm today on Capitol Hill. But that hasn't stopped lawmakers of both parties from designating special federal grants to pet projects, including several designed to help students at...

Fattah Introduces College Retention Legislation.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Congressman Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., has introduced legislation designed to help institutions of higher education expand their efforts to increase the rate at which low-income and other at risk students complete baccalaureate degree...

Quorum Calls Go Unanswered on UDC Board.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- City officials here had to pass an emergency measure earlier this month so that the University of the District of Columbia board could continue to govern the school. Regents lost their ability to govern last month after a...

Clinton Signs D.C. Tuition Break Bill.
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- High School graduates from the District of Columbia can now attend public colleges in Maryland and Virginia at in-state tuition rates after President Clinton signed the legislation earlier this month. District students are...

Less Segregation on Campus Today, Study Says.
November 25, 1999... PONTIAC, Mich. -- College students today are less likely to segregate themselves by race than they once were, according to a Ford Foundation report. Increased campus diversity and special programs have made students comfortable enough to...

University of Georgia Asks Judge to Allow Race Consideration In Admissions in 2000.
November 25, 1999... SAVANNAH, Ga. -- The state of Georgia has asked a federal court to allow the University of Georgia to continue to use race as a factor for admissions next fall, saying it would not harm the women who filed suit to block the practice. In...

Citing `Tepid' Support of Diversity, Berkeley Professor Considers Harvard.
November 25, 1999... BERKELEY, Calif.--A Berkeley professor who studies the role of race in education is considering jumping ship to Harvard, partly over concern that campus administrators have shown a tepid support of diversity. "It has become a much less...

What's New.
November 25, 1999... Programs, Accreditations, & Initiatives South Carolina State University's department of health and physical education is adding a new academic degree program for fall 2000 -- a bachelor's of science degree in physical education with an...

Rebel Flag Stance in S.C., Miss., May Hurt Athletic Recruiting.
November 25, 1999... NAACP Warns Athletes Away GREENVILLE, S.C. -- The state NAACP is increasing the pressure on South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse dome by encouraging Black student athletes to stay away from state...

College Board Opposes Labeling Students `Strivers'.
November 25, 1999... LOS ANGELES -- Poor and ethnic minority high school students who perform well on the Scholastic Aptitude Test should not be given a special label by the agency that administers and scores the test, The College Board president says. As part...

Miami U. to Erect Memorial for Slain Civil Rights Activists.
November 25, 1999... OXFORD, Ohio -- A memorial is being erected to three civil rights activists who trained at Miami University before going to the South to register Black voters in 1964. Community leaders and university officials broke ground earlier this...

In Appreciation.
November 25, 1999... Walter Payton 1954-1999 For his phenomenal contributions to collegiate and professional football, his role as a mentor and his enduring devotion to his alma mater, Jackson State University, where two scholarships continue in his name. ...

Affirmative Action: Bush-Whacked in Florida.
November 25, 1999... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Despite Gov. Jeb Bush's attempt to derail an anti-affirmative action campaign here with his "Equity in Education" plan, officials with a California-based group say they may still plan to forge ahead with their designs to...

FACULTY WORKLOAD: Ruled Non-Negotiable in Ohio.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... WILBERFORCE, Ohio -- The Central State University faculty union has lost a lengthy court battle concerning its right to bargain over professors' workload. The Ohio Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision, ruled in late October that a 1993 law...

W. Va. Presidential Appointment: Draws Charges of NEPOTISM, RACISM.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... CHARLESTON, W. Va.--The head of the state NAACP is claiming the new president at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College received the job because her husband is state Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin. The State College...

Inappropriate Monikers.
November 25, 1999... As minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubious distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legacies CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-- Kristi Booker thought her fellow students...

Tribal College Students Petition Congress for More Financial Help.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... SANTAFE, N.M. -- Students at the Institute of American Indian Arts have started a letter-writing campaign to Congress and are seeking help from their tribes, saying the school needs more support than it's getting. Under a compromise...

Appalachian, American Indian Students Bridge Cultural Divide.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... CUMBERLAND, Ky. -- Kristen Foley, a fourth-generation resident in Harlan County, is separated by 1,253 miles from some new friends -- Sioux Indians living on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, S.D. Through a course offered jointly at...

Achieving Career Satisfaction in the Academy.(Statistical Data Included)
November 25, 1999... Even more than money, institutional support and peer recognition go a long way Today's headlines are full of stories about the most vexing of problems in education. How to provide a good education to all students? How to close the...

Preparing Teachers for Urban Classrooms.
November 25, 1999... Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Urban Education at Emory University. For more than 20 ears, her research on the cultural context of teaching and learning and the development of urban teachers has lent new...

Creating Opportunities for Faculty Research.
November 25, 1999... Research is one of the most rewarding aspects of a scholarly career, but until recently few African American scholars have had a chance to pursue it seriously. Gradually, times are changing. Higher education's sacrosanct route to promotion...

NEW NETWORKING.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... Educause to manage NSF's $5.9M minority institution tech initiative Last month, the National Science Foundation announced that it would spend $5.9 million over four years to assist minority-serving higher education institutions in bringing...

ETS RESEARCH FOCUSES on COMPUTER TESTING.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- Educational Testing Service officials announced earlier this month that the organization is launching a three-year, multimillion dollar research project to improve the quality of its tests based on data gleaned from the use of...

Penn State Officials Respond to Racist E-mails.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Even though the racist e-mails that were circulating through Penn State last month only reached a relatively small number of students, the entire Pennsylvania State University community may feel its impact, according to...

Tour an HBCU from Comforts of Home or High School.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... CINCINNATI -- NAFEO, the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, and Hobsons, a global provider of higher education information, have formed a partnership to promote the nation's historically Black colleges and...

Y2K Vigilance Needed.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... WASHINGTON -- More colleges are solving their year 2000 technology problems, but some may cut it close this December. A new U.S. Department of Education survey says 61 percent of institutions have Y2K-compliant systems, up from 30 percent...

Regents Protest `No Gringos' Cartoon.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- The New Mexico State University Faculty Senate has voted to condemn a campus newspaper cartoon for the way it depicted the arrest of the Mesilla town marshal on drug and racketeering charges, and at least two NMSU regents...

Research For the New Millennium.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... Are you tired of the new millenium yet? Lord knows I am. Tired of conferences predicting the status of African Americans in the new millennium, the status of education in the new millennium, 10 steps for making it in the new millennium and you...

Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black.(Brief Article)(Review)
November 25, 1999... Souls Looking Back: LIfe Stories of Growing Up Back Edited by Andrew Garrod, Janie Victoria Ward, Tacy L. Robinson and Robert Kilkenny. Routledge, New York, 1999; 300 pages; Hard Cover: $70; Paperback $18.99 In 1971, soul singer Marvin...

Professional APPOINTMENTS.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... ACADEMIC GILBERTO CARDENAS has been named assistant provost and director of the newly established Institute for Latino Studies and Julian Samora Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously an associate...

Highlights From Career consultants.
November 25, 1999... One year ago, Black Issues began a column designed to give advice to help you advance or just to develop more expertise as you start or continue your career in higher education. Through this first year, we have received insightful and helpful...

GRANTS & AWARDS.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... California State University, Dominguez Hills, in Carson, Calif., and El Camino College in Torrance, Calif., have received a joint, five-year, $2.15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to bolster teacher training. North...

The Problem With Henry Louis Gates' `African World'.(Brief Article)
November 25, 1999... The beautiful African coastline in Ghana is studded with the haunted vestiges of slave fortresses built by European nations over a period of 400 years. It is not unlike the history of the European Slave Trade in other parts of West Africa, from...