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To the Academy With Love, From a Hip-Hop Fan

To the Academy With Love, From a Hip-Hop FanWhile putting together the cover story for this edition, a source asked me if I thought it was the academy’s responsibility to get to know and understand hip-hop — the music and its accompanying culture.Pausing first, I replied: It may not be a professor’s job to run […]

December 6, 2000

Study Shows Internet Not Likely to Affect 2000 Vote

Study Shows Internet Not Likely to Affect 2000 VoteUTICA, N.Y. Despite enough information on Web sites to choke a donkey or an elephant, the Internet isn’t likely to make a difference in the presidential election — this year. Preliminary results of a Syracuse University study show politicians increasingly are turning to the Net to interact […]

November 8, 2000

Education Secretary Stumps for Gore

Education Secretary Stumps for GoreSome college students and administrators got a political message during a visit from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley at the beginning of a three-day cross-country tour he made on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore. Riley talked up Gore’s commitment to education last month, touting initiatives that Gore promotes. […]

October 11, 2000

Education Department Announces Changes in Colleges’ Disciplinary Policies

Education Department Announces Changes in Colleges’ Disciplinary PoliciesColleges and universities may no longer be able to shield some internal student disciplinary procedures from public view, the U.S. Department of Education says in a potentially far-reaching policy.A number of complex changes to FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, were implemented this summer to meet […]

September 13, 2000

The NAACP’s Plan for Economic Sanctions In South Carolina

The NAACP’s Plan for Economic Sanctions In South CarolinaWhereas, the Confederate States of America came into being by way of secession from and war against the United States of America out of a desire to defend the right of individual states to maintain an economic system based on slave labor; andWhereas, the Confederate Battle Flag […]

March 1, 2000

Faculty & Staff

100 Years of Change

100 Years of ChangeFor Better, For WorseThere is no doubt that access to higher education has played a critical role in the evolving status of people of color in the 20th century. In this edition, Black Issues reviews the century throught the prism of some of the personalities whose vision, sacrifice and, in some cases, […]

December 22, 1999

Drug Offenders Barred From Student Aid

Drug Offenders Barred From Student AidWASHINGTON — 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 that take effect next summer. The regulations, which federal officials acknowledge may be difficult to enforce, are based on a […]

November 24, 1999

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