Black IssuesHomeCollege-Centered Auction Site DebutsCollege-Centered Auction Site DebutsBy Ronald RoachMIAMIIn an effort to bring an eBay-like Web site to college students, a Miami company has introduced CollegeJunktion.com, an auction and trading Web site available at . The new Web site creates an online community for students across the United States to buy, sell and exchange nearly anything students and […]March 23, 2005HomeHoward Expands Windows Media Player Challenge to National CompetitorsHoward Expands Windows Media Player Challenge to National CompetitorsBy Ronald RoachWASHINGTONHoward University, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Microsoft Corp. have partnered to launch the fourth annual Howard University Windows Media Player Skins Challenge, a college-level competition to create original user interfaces for the Windows Media Player. This year, the competition has opened […]March 23, 2005HomeTADA! and the PhD Project Unite to Help Students Complete Doctoral DegreesTADA! and the PhD Project Unite to Help Students Complete Doctoral DegreesBy Ronald RoachPHOENIXA Phoenix-based software development company has announced a collaboration with the acclaimed PhD Project that will provide instructional software to minority students with the aim of helping them complete master’s theses and dissertations. The software, TADA! or Thesis and Dissertation Accomplished, is […]March 23, 2005Community CollegesBudget Cuts Leave U.S. Out of Global ProgressBudget Cuts Leave U.S. Out of Global ProgressBy Karen JenkinsThe United Nations launched its “Decade of Education for Sustainable Development” in January. The purpose of the “Decade” is to promote viable and just societies for all people. All over the world, educational institutions are being encouraged to move beyond teaching about the environment and implement […]March 23, 2005African-AmericanDesperately Seeking StudentsDesperately Seeking StudentsSeveral public flagships attempt to reverse disturbing declines in Black student college enrollment By Lydia LumAs high-school seniors begin to choose colleges in the coming months, officials at many public flagships nervously hope that their renewed outreach to Black students reverses steep and disappointing enrollment drops. Those declines, some of them by double-digit […]March 23, 2005HealthSaving A GenerationSaving A GenerationNorth Carolina public health department partners with state’s Black colleges to raise awareness about HIV/AIDSBy Crystal L. Keels North Carolina A&T does it. Across the street, Bennett College does it too. So do Elizabeth City State University, Livingstone and Fayetteville State. These North Carolina-based historically Black institutions have made HIV/AIDS education a part […]March 23, 2005HealthSurvival at StakeSurvival at StakeUniversity of North Carolina’s Dr. Adaora Adimora searches for answers into HIV transmission among African AmericansBy Eleanor Lee YatesChapel Hill, N.C.During the 1980s and into the ’90s, HIV and AIDS primarily affected gay White men. The rates of HIV/AIDS stabilized in the 1990s in the United States, but today the numbers are soaring […]March 23, 2005African-AmericanOn the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS EpidemicOn the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS EpidemicWith infection rates still escalating among African Americans, researchers, scholars and activists wonder if the battle is a losing oneBy B. Denise HawkinsMost days, Cynthia Davis is an exasperated trooper who can always be found teaching and preaching from the frontline of the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The […]March 23, 2005Native AmericansOregon State University Returns Artifacts To American Indian Tribes, Historical Society BalksOregon State University Returns Artifacts To American Indian Tribes, Historical Society BalksCORVALLIS, Ore. The Benton County Historical Society expressed disappointment over Oregon State University’s decision to return 900 artifacts from the Horner Museum to the Oregon tribes from which they came. The university closed the museum in 1995 and the historical society wants to reopen […]March 23, 2005StudentsCalifornia State-Stanislaus President To Head Dillard UniversityCalifornia State-Stanislaus President To Head Dillard UniversityNEW ORLEANS Dr. Marvalene Hughes, the first woman or African American to be named president of California State University’s Stanislaus campus, was chosen in early March as Dillard University’s first female president. Hughes will officially begin July 1 as the ninth president of Dillard, a private, predominantly Black school […]March 23, 2005Previous PagePage 3 of 431Next Page