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HBCUs
HBCUs in America’s high-tech future – Historically Black Colleges and Universities
By the year 2010, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF), this country will need to produce 11,000 Ph.D.s in engineering and science annually. Concurrently, the annual Ph.D. shortfall could be about 9,600 by the year 2000.
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HBCUs
Filling technology’s massive talent gap
Technology partnership brings opportunities to students at Virginia HBCUs
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HBCUs
Black Issues Quiz
The Black Issues Quiz, or BIQ offers you the opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth ten points.
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Students
Grants & Awards
The City College of New York School of Engineering has received a $50,000 grant from the General Electric Fund to launch a new program designed to motivate minority high school juniors toward research careers.
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Leadership & Policy
The Donation Station
Syndicated radio personality Tom Joyner’s growing popularity is raising needed money for Black Colleges
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Students
Washington Update
Clinton Signs Higher Education Act Reauthorization
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Faculty & Staff
Black Geoscientists: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
African American earth scientists ponder strategies to attract more students of color to a field with growing opportunities
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Students
Poll Confirms that Americans Want Diversity on Campuses
Most Americans say that college students need to know about different kinds of people and how to get along with them. There also seems to be a national consensus that colleges should have diverse student bodies and faculties, as well as courses that focus on diversity.
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Faculty & Staff
Faculty focus on technology
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to adapt information technology to the classroom or to your research, an upcoming annual symposium hosted by the HBCU Faculty Development Network may have the answers you seek.
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HBCUs
How did they do that?
Forthcoming Mellon Foundation study documents activities that lead to African American success on standardized tests
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Community Colleges
Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized
Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.
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Faculty & Staff
The long, winding, and neglected road – Black students do not reality education parity in Southern state college and universities
SEF report reveals that after thirty years of Black progress along the path to higher education parity, there are still `Miles To Go’
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