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Conferences Aim to Outline Battle Plan for Educating, Preparing Black Students

Conferences Aim to Outline Battle Plan for Educating, Preparing Black StudentsBy Robin V. SmilesWASHINGTONAs lawmakers on Capitol Hill debated the final particulars of Bush’s education reform bill, just minutes away at the historically Black Howard University and just outside the Beltway in Reston, Va., education advocates and experts gathered to craft their own battle plan […]

July 4, 2001

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George Mason University Program Trains Teachers for Increasing Classroom Diversity

George Mason University Program Trains Teachers for Increasing Classroom DiversityFairfax, Va.George Mason University has committed to a new kind of teacher training with a program that prepares teachers to work with the diversity of ages, races, ethnicity, languages and abilities that is prevalent in today’s typical classroom. The Unified Transformative Early Education Model stresses the […]

January 31, 2001

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Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic Achievement

Five Specific Steps to Improving Hispanic AchievementOne of the things I have learned traveling across America is just how diverse Hispanic America is, something that a lot of Americans really don’t know yet. I think there is a common core of values around family and community and work and faith, but Hispanic America is growing […]

September 27, 2000

Community Colleges

Campaign 2000

WASHINGTON —  The presidential race is heating up, but so far most candidates are not spending much time on higher education issues.Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley and Republicans George W. Bush and John McCain have been locked in heated primary debates, yet education issues are not often on the front burner. The problem is […]

March 15, 2000

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Professional Appointments

Suber to Head St. Augustine’sDr. Dianne Boardley Suber is the first woman to be named president of St. Augustine’s College in North Carolina. Suber has been a professor, assistant provost and, most recently, vice president for administrative services at Hampton University in Virginia. She earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from Hampton University, […]

November 10, 1999

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Budget Surplus, Tax Cuts Could Drain Education Funding

Budget Surplus, Tax Cuts Could Drain Education FundingWASHINGTON — Congress and President Clinton, with rhetoric and threats flying back and forth between them, have set the stage for a budget showdown again this year, one education advocates fear could hurt millions of college students if  lawmakers fail to produce a bipartisan budget before Oct. 1.Several […]

September 29, 1999

Native Americans

Tribal College Advisory Board Holds First Meeting

Tribal College Advisory Board Holds First Meeting WASHINGTON — Agendas were set and board members were sworn in as 13 of the 15 members of the President’s Advisory Board on Tribal Colleges and Universities gathered here in July for the group’s inaugural meeting.Carrie L. Billy, executive director of the White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges […]

September 1, 1999

HBCUs

Professional Appointments

AcademicCarmen Ashhurst is the new director of university communications at the New School University in New York City.  She comes to the New School from Radiant Entertainment Inc., a media production and special events planning consultant firm where she was president. Ashhurst earned a bachelor’s degree in government from MacMurray College (Ill.), and a master’s […]

July 7, 1999