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A Pathway to the Presidency

A Pathway to the PresidencyStudent affairs professionals are increasingly moving into the top job on college campuses By Kendra HamiltonIf you took a random sampling of student affairs professionals, they’d all agree: without the work they do with students, campus functions would simply grind to a halt. “Student affairs professionals spend 80 percent of their time […]

November 17, 2004

Playing Catch Up

Playing Catch UpWhenever I read about national shortages of qualified professionals in critical fields, such as health care and technology, I can’t help but think about the tragic legacy of segregation and discrimination in the United States. I believe that had African Americans enjoyed the full range of educational and career opportunities experienced by Whites […]

November 17, 2004

Investing in HBCU Leadership

Investing in HBCU LeadershipSouthern Education Foundation creates three-year initiative to facilitate HBCU accreditationBy Crystal L. KeelsKnoxville College, Morris Brown College and Barber Scotia College. These institutions are just some of the recent victims of lost accreditation — and there are others. Many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have either teetered on the brink, suffered […]

September 8, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year Students

Report: Transfer Barriers Loom Large for Two-Year StudentsBy Kathleen Kennedy ManzoMisperceptions and a lack of coordination between community colleges and four-year institutions combine to create significant obstacles to baccalaureate degrees for two-year students, according to a report that culminates an 18-month study and marks a rare collaboration between the different higher education sectors.“Central to a […]

September 8, 2004

Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUs

Kaplan, EDU Inc. Team Up to Increase Educational Opportunities at HBCUsNEW YORKWorldwide educational services leader Kaplan Inc. announced it has become the exclusive K-12 partner for EDU Inc., a unique service for historically Black colleges and universities that enables students to apply to 29 member institutions through a single common application. Under the terms of […]

June 30, 2004

Technology-Based Collaboration to Aid Iraqi Libraries

Technology-Based Collaboration to Aid Iraqi LibrariesBOSTON Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Harvard University library system are collaborating to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists. The program will aid in modernizing Iraqi libraries and help to address Iraq’s […]

April 7, 2004

Boeing to Donate $1 Million to Science Education Center

Boeing to Donate $1 Million to Science Education CenterWASHINGTONThe Challenger Center for Space Science Education announced earlier this month that the Boeing Company will contribute $1 million to support professional development programs for the nation’s math and science teachers.“The entire network of current and future Challenger Learning Centers will be the grateful beneficiaries of Boeing’s […]

February 25, 2004

Professional Development

Project Surveys Community Based Organizations High Schools

Project Surveys Community Based Organizations High Schools A new report aims to promote awareness at the state level of the importance of Community Based Organizations (CBO) high schools, highlighting the promising lessons these schools hold for improving the educational outcomes of youth at risk of school failure or dropping out. The report, “CBO High Schools: […]

January 28, 2004

Profiles of Inspiration

Profiles of InspirationScholars of Note. Emerging Scholars. Rising Stars. However we refer to what has become an annual edition, indeed a January tradition, it is one of the most anticipated issues for both Black Issues readers and staff.It gives us an opportunity to bring to you some new names and faces in the academy, as […]

January 14, 2004

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship Program

Emory, Mellon Foundation Team Up for Fellowship ProgramATLANTAEmory University has received a $247,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner in a new fellowship program that will place some of the university’s top graduate students in the classrooms of six colleges and universities in Atlanta and New Orleans. The program expands and enhances […]

December 31, 2003

Wiredscholar.Com Launches Web Site

RESTON, Va.Wiredscholar.com, Sallie Mae’s award-winning college financial planning Web site, has recently launched a new online resource for high-school guidance professionals. The High School Counselor Resource, available at http://counselor.wiredscholar.com, helps advisers counsel their students on planning and paying for college. It also provides counselors with professional development opportunities, interactive tools and information on higher education […]

December 3, 2003

Music College Offers Lessons Via Online Program

By Ronald RoachBOSTONThe Berklee College of Music, the world’s largest independent music college, has announced the launch of a free, downloadable computer program that provides music lessons. The program, Berklee Shares, encourages musicians to share and distribute these music lessons online. The Berklee Shares lessons are made up of a catalog of MP3s, QuickTime movies […]

December 3, 2003

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