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HBCUs

Washington Briefs

Pell Grants May Increase Next YearWASHINGTON — Education lobbyists are a step closer to their goal of a large increase in the maximum Pell grant — particularly if an aid-friendly Senate proposal takes effect.The Senate in mid-May proposed a $350 increase in the top Pell grant for the neediest students, which would push the maximum […]

June 7, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

Morgan State Blocks Competing Doctoral ProgramsBALTIMORE  —  New doctoral programs at Baltimore-area public universities have been put on hold at the urging of Morgan State University officials, prompting critics to claim the school is using its historically Black status to block competition from other schools. The first doctoral programs at Towson University and the University […]

May 24, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Baton Rouge College Facing Sensitivity Training

Baton Rouge College Facing Sensitivity TrainingBATON ROUGE, La. — The entire faculty and staff here at troubled Baton Rouge Community College, consumed for the last year by accusations of racism by both Blacks and Whites, will undergo diversity sensitivity training.“The gun is not loaded toward anyone in particular, or toward any race in particular,” insists […]

April 12, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Expecting Standards

Expecting StandardsDupont Circle associations wrestle with meeting high diversity expectations.WASHINGTON — The American Council of Education recently lost two of the most visible minorities in higher education. Dr. Deborah Wilds, the association’s deputy director of the Office of Minority Concerns, recently left to become a program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (see […]

March 15, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Tumultuous Tenure

Tumultuous TenureCHICAGO — Dr. Charles Green’s resume was im-pressive. He had served as president of the Hous-ton Community Colleges system for five years, before that, president of one of the prestigious Maricopa Community Colleges in Phoenix for nine years and, prior to that, as a dean at Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota. But suddenly […]

January 19, 2000

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Remember the Alamo (Documents)

Remember the Alamo (Documents)University of Texas, Bexar County spar over Hispanic archivesAUSTIN, Texas — It’s not the battle of the Alamo. But one San Antonio official is waging a modern-day war of words in his efforts to retrieve historic Spanish and Mexican documents returned to San Antonio.At issue is a collection of priceless Hispanic documents […]

January 19, 2000

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Déjà Vu in the Bayou

Déjà Vu in the Bayou Demotion of Black administrators and promotion of White administrators results in allegations of racism.BATON ROUGE, La. — Allegations of racism are once again surfacing at Baton Rouge Community College, but this time they are directed at a White chancellor instead of an African American one.Interim Chancellor Dr. Sammie Cosper, a […]

January 5, 2000

Leadership & Policy

Professional Appontments

Professional AppontmentsGilberto Cardenas has been named assistant provost and director of the newly established Institute for Latino Studies and Julian Samora Chair of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was previously an associate professor of sociology and executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Texas. Cardenas […]

November 24, 1999

Students

Inappropriate Monikers

Inappropriate MonikersAs minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubious  distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legaciesBy Paul MuschickCHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kristi Booker thought her fellow students didn’t know what they were talking about when they told her Saunders Hall here at the University of North Carolina’s […]

November 24, 1999

Students

Cuts Threaten Education Programs

Cuts Threaten Education ProgramsWASHINGTON — Across-the-board cuts in federal programs may hamper vital college programs, including the U.S. Department of Education’s ability to process student-aid applications for grants and loans, the Clinton administration warns.In the latest salvo over the 2000 federal budget, Democrats and agency officials complain that a 1 percent, across-the-board cut endorsed by […]

November 24, 1999

Students

BI News Briefs

Commission Dismisses Discrimination Complaint Against Alabama-BirminghamBIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The state Ethics Commission has dismissed complaints against the president of the University of Alabama-Birmingham and another school official, saying the allegations of discrimination do not fall under its jurisdiction.A local activist had filed a complaint against Dr. W. Ann Reynolds, the school’s president, and George Perdue, […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCase

Two Miami University College Students Acquitted in RaceCaseDefense points finger at Black administrator, both sides still smarting OXFORD, Ohio — The acquittal earlier this month of two former African American students accused of faking a racist hate crime at Miami University here has left faculty, staff and students split in their interpretations of the decision. […]

September 29, 1999