Gwendolyn GlennHomeFord Fellows Fund established to increase minority participation in Ph.D. programAt the 1993 annual conference of minority recipients of the Ford Foundation’s Fellowship Fund for doctoral candidates and graduates, Dr. Bai Akridge asked this question of the participants: “If we’ve agreed that this program is so important to us, why aren’t we doing something to help ourselves, too?”July 10, 2007StudentsFollowing the leaders – the establishment of Leadership Development Centers in historically Black colleges and universitiesLeadership Development Becomes Priority for Many InstitutionsJuly 4, 2007Faculty & StaffExamining higher education’s role in health care – educating personnel for allied health services – special report: health sciencesTo meet health industry needs for thousands of physical therapists, occupational therapists and other trained health professionals, colleges and universities have revamped their course offerings. Even so, they turn down more students than they accept.June 23, 2007Faculty & StaffReporters, curators, security chiefs … faculty aren’t the only ones with careers at universitiesUniversities and colleges may have had to streamline their employment rolls in recent years, but they still employ more than two-and-a-half million people — and by far most of them are not faculty members.June 22, 2007Leadership & PolicyMuseum exhibit sheds historical light on Atlanta University CenterAtlanta Heidi Struve and her father, Larry Struve, had some time on their hands after attending a field hockey match on the campus of Morris Brown College during the Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Reno NV duo spotted an Olympic Arts Festival sign pointing to an exhibit on “The History of the Atlanta University Center” in the college’s Fountain Hall and decided to venture inside.June 20, 2007StudentsFresh scoop: new-style public journalism takes reporting to a new level of activismWhen Dr. Louise Reid Ritchie worked as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, she also coordinated a community service project at the newspaper called the Gift of Reading, which was responsible for collecting and distributing more than 500,000 books to underprivileged children in Detroit. Ritchie said she “tutored kids and wrote articles soliciting books and supplies for area schools from readers.”June 19, 2007Students1996 AdAtlanta – When Atlanta was named host city for the 1996 Olympic Games, recent Morris Brown College graduate LaDon Love dreamed about being a part of the event. That dream will come true next month when the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) will pay LaDon $160 per day to keep track of cameras during the broadcasts of the Olympics.June 18, 2007Page 1 of 1