Blair S. WalkerCommunity CollegesReplicating SuccessRecent college grads help low-income students navigate the path to college through innovative program.May 16, 2007StudentsFAMU Among Florida Colleges Targeted by Report For Massive ChangesState commission considers having the HBCU drop its graduate programs.April 4, 2007Faculty & StaffClosed For BusinessWhile Community College of Philadelphia administrators and faculty engage in negotiating gamesmanship in week two of a faculty strike, CCP’s 37,000 students — most of whom are Black — continue to be denied access to the only community college serving the city of Philadelphia and Philadelphia County.March 21, 2007HomeTwo States, Two StoriesIn the 1990s, Florida and Texas stopped using affirmative action as an admissions factor for public universities…March 21, 2007HomeTexas’ Guaranteed Admissions Program Under FireFlorida and Texas stopped using affirmative action in favor of automatic college admissions programs for top high school graduates. However, Texas’ guaranteed admissions program is facing intense criticism while the Florida program has been dismissed as irrelevant.March 19, 2007StudentsFAMU Instructors Say They’re Not Getting PaidDue to financial and administrative problems at Florida A&M University, adjunct professors and graduate teaching assistants haven’t been compensated in 2007, according to school sources. Diverse has confirmed that journalism teaching assistants have not been paid, but an estimated 600 employees falling under the former two job categories may also be affected at the 13,000-student school.February 12, 2007StudentsPerspectives: To End Hazing, Sending Promising Black Men to Jail Is Not The AnswerThe real tragedy of the FAMU hazing case is that two promising Black men will spend two years in jail rubbing shoulders with serial rapists and murderers.February 10, 2007Leadership & PolicyNCCU’s Ammons Chosen To Be FAMU’s Next PresidentFlorida A & M University on Thursday picked the chancellor of North Carolina Central University, Dr. James H. Ammons, to become FAMU’s new president.February 1, 2007HomeSafeguarding Black HistoryBack when Harry Truman was in the White House, long before “Black History Month” became part of our lexicon…January 24, 2007HomeU.S. Judge Lets Michigan Universities Use Affirmative Action, For NowA federal judge has given Michigan universities a six-month extension to continue race…January 10, 2007Page 1 of 2Next Page
