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Community Colleges

Preparing for a New Day

Preparing for a New DayNow, as at previous times of national crisis, our thoughts naturally turn to our young people. They are whom we seek to protect. They also are whom we must prepare to protect themselves. At such moments it is helpful, I believe, to turn to history. I like to ask what the […]

May 8, 2002

Major Changes Ahead for Student Visa Programs

Major Changes Ahead for Student Visa ProgramsSenate bill requires government, higher education to work togetherBy Charles DervaricsThe U.S. Senate in mid-April approved a bill with major changes in store for the way the federal government and higher education will manage student visa programs.Under the bill with bipartisan support from Republicans and Democrats, colleges and universities […]

May 8, 2002

The Influence of Active Online Users

The Influence of Active Online UsersWe active online users like to think of ourselves as savvy, hip and influential. We have access to the latest information technology, and more importantly, know how to use it to its full potential. Sure, when we take things to an extreme, we become nerds, isolated from other spheres of […]

April 24, 2002

Moving Toward Reparations

Moving Toward ReparationsThe resurgence of the reparations movement is taking shape with Black leaders, intellectualsBy Ronald Roach In 1998, historically Black Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Fla., answered the Clinton administration’s call for colleges and universities to sponsor race relations discussions and events in support of President Clinton’s National Conversation on Race initiative. The Bethune-Cookman program, […]

November 7, 2001

No Appointment in Sight for U.S. Higher Education Post

No Appointment in Sight for U.S. Higher Education PostLack of action draws increased concern among higher education officials.By Charles DervaricsWith the start of the 2001-2002 academic year just under way, the U.S. Department of Education is still without an assistant secretary responsible for higher education policy. The Bush administration has no timetable for filling the […]

September 12, 2001

Literary Journal, Editor to Move from UVA to Texas A&M

Literary Journal, Editor to Move from UVA to Texas A&MCharlottesville, Va.Dr. Charles H. Rowell, professor of English and editor of the acclaimed literary journal of the African Diaspora Callaloo, has announced that, as of late August, he will relocate the journal from its current home at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., to the […]

August 29, 2001

District of Columbia High School Graduates

District of Columbia High School Graduates Gain More Tuition BenefitsDistrict of Columbia high school graduates stand to gain more college tuition benefits under legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives approved just before its August recess.The House overwhelmingly approved a bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., to expand the two-year-old D.C. College Access Act, […]

August 29, 2001

Asian American Pacific Islander

Events

EventsAPRILApril 11-122nd Annual Kent State Symposium on Democracy“Media, Profit and Politics: Competing Priorities in an Open Society”Kent State UniversityKent, OhioPhone: (330) 672-3161Fax: (330) 672-9995Web: www.kent.edu/democracy–symposium April 22-25American Association of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions OfficersAACRAO Annual MeetingSeattleContact: Gloria RutbergPhone: (202) 293-8857Fax: (202) 872-8857E-mail: [email protected]: www.aacrao.orgApril 26World Poverty Conference“Poverty and Globalization”St. John’s UniversityJamaica, N.Y.Contact: Professor Azzedine LayachiPhone: […]

March 28, 2001

Business Course on Oprah’s Success Taught at University of Illinois

Business Course on Oprah’s Success Taught at University of IllinoisURBANA, Ill. A history professor at the University of Illinois, recently started teaching a class titled “History 298: Oprah Winfrey, The Tycoon.” The full-credit course is taught by Dr. Juliet E.K. Walker, who specializes in Black business history in the United States. It is believed to […]

February 28, 2001

No Syllabus Needed for Election 2000

No Syllabus Needed for Election 2000Prepared lectures were cast aside. Textbooks became irrelevant. By Pearl StewartDuring the final weeks of the fall semester, Election 2000 presented an unusual challenge for academe. For faculty around the country, the education emanating from C-Span, CNN and MSNBC overshadowed their syllabi. But for those of us in Tallahassee, Fla., […]

January 17, 2001

Politicians Hail Increases in Education Budget

Politicians Hail Increases in Education BudgetNeedy students of color will have a chance to obtain larger Pell Grants for college under new legislation President Clinton signed in December. The top federal Pell Grant will increase to $3,750 next year, up $450 from current funding as a result of the new bipartisan budget agreement between Congress […]

January 17, 2001

The Miseducation of Hip-Hop

The Miseducation of Hip-HopAre Today’s Faculty and Administrators Simply Out of Touch? Or Has Today’s Popular Music Truly Corrupted the Minds of a Whole Generation? By Jamilah EvelynNEWARK, Del.When Jason Hinmon transferred to the University of Delaware two years ago from Morehouse College in Atlanta, the 22-year-old senior says he almost dropped out his first semester.He […]

December 6, 2000

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