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Students

Noel-Levitz Honors Institutions

Noel-Levitz Honors Institutions For Outstanding Retention Efforts IOWA CITY, IowaNoel-Levitz, one of the leading higher education consulting firms in North  America, recognized four colleges and universities with the 2004 Lee Noel and Randi Levitz Retention Excellence Awards. The awards recognize innovative, state-of-the-art campus retention programs that have encouraged students to succeed and persevere through graduation.“These […]

July 28, 2004

Recruitment & Retention

Making Meaningful Contributions

Making Meaningful ContributionsThe last week in June proved to be one of those weeks you have to call on all of your wits, instincts and emotions to survive. During the span of one week, we were taken on an emotional roller coaster as we breathed a collective sigh of relief when the long-awaited decisions in […]

July 16, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Long Overdue

Long Overdue20th Anniversary Edition“After researching, analyzing and listening to the ‘pros’ from all sectors of higher education, it became obvious that this publication was long overdue,” wrote Frank L. Matthews and William E. Cox in their “Publisher’s Viewpoint” in March 1984. Black Issues In Higher Education was “this” publication. The magazine, which started out as […]

June 16, 2004

Latinx

IT Report Calls Attention to Minority-Serving Schools

IT Report Calls Attention to Minority-Serving SchoolsIn a study that builds upon the 2000 U.S. Department of Commerce-funded National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) report on IT resources at historically Black colleges and universities, researchers with the Washington-based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHE) have authored the first, comprehensive national survey of […]

March 24, 2004

Recruitment & Retention

Coming Together

Coming TogetherCalifornia State University-Dominguez Hills establishes support group to encourage retention among Latina studentsFor the 28 percent Latina student body population at California State University-Dominguez Hills, the “Latinas Juntas” program is just the type of networking event the women on campus need in order to know who and what resources are available to them.Started by […]

October 22, 2003

HBCUs

Georgia On the Mind

Georgia On the MindThe state’s higher education system puts research, policy focus on Black males By Ronald RoachAmong education researchers and higher education administrators around the nation, it is well known that African American male college attendance and completion rates are lagging behind those of males in other racial and ethnic groups as well as […]

October 22, 2003

Students

Commitment at the Highest Levels

Commitment at the Highest Levels”Bringing more than skin color to the party” pretty much sums up our cover story on recruiting faculty of color. One new faculty hire from Rochester Institute of Technology says minority faculty have to do just that and must “bring ways to contribute to the strategic direction of the university and […]

October 22, 2003

Latinx

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic Achievement

Presidential Commission Targets Hispanic AchievementBy Charles Dervarics To increase Hispanic student achievement, the nation should support new efforts on student retention and career programs that lead to college graduation, a presidential commission says. Noting one of every three Hispanics fail to complete high school and just 10 percent graduate from four-year colleges, the President’s Advisory […]

May 7, 2003

Recruitment & Retention

Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions Policies

Replacing Race-Conscious Admissions PoliciesAre percentage plans the wave of the future? By Kendra Hamilton When President George W. Bush denounced the University of Michigan for maintaining a “quota” system for undergraduate and law admissions that was “divisive, unfair and impossible to square with the Constitution,” he clearly signaled his desire that the U.S. Supreme Court […]

February 26, 2003

Students

Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money

Morris Brown Faces Increased Pressure to Solve Financial Crisis, Pay Back Money ATLANTAMorris Brown College’s financial crisis appears to be growing as recent newspapers report in addition to being $23 million in debt, things are so bad that the cafeteria sometimes runs out of food, computer labs carefully ration paper and laptop computers that cost […]

November 20, 2002

Recruitment & Retention

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsLinda Burgess is the new head women’s basketball coach at Stillman College in Alabama. Burgess previously served as assistant women’s basketball coach at the University of West Alabama. She has a 13-year professional playing career including overseas and the WNBA, most recently with the Sacramento Monarchs. Burgess earned a bachelor’s from the University of […]

October 23, 2002

Students

Mentoring: The Forgotten Retention Tool

Mentoring: The Forgotten Retention ToolI recently had the opportunity to converse with some colleagues about an important issue in higher education, minority student retention. This conversation prompted a period of personal reflection on my academic life as a student and educator on both historically White and historically Black campuses. After much retrospection on my experiences […]

October 23, 2002