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Leadership & Policy

Professional Appointments

Professional AppointmentsDr. Duchess Harris, a professor of political science and African American studies at Macalester College, has received a 2001 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty sponsored by the New Jersey-based Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Harris earned a bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in American studies from the University of […]

June 6, 2001

International

Events

EventsMARCHMarch 24-27American Association forHigher EducationMarriott Wardman Park HotelWashingtonPhone: (202) 293-6440Fax: (202) 293-0073Web: www.aahe.orgMarch 28-April 113th Annual National Black Graduate Student ConferenceTexas Tech UniversityLubbock, TexasPhone: (806) 742-0623Web: www.ttu.edu/gradsch/nbgscAPRILApril 11-12Second Annual Kent State Symposium on Democracy“Media, Profit and Politics: Competing Priorities in an Open Society”Kent State UniversityKent Student Center Kent, OhioPhone: (330) 672-3161Fax: (330) 672-9995Web: www.kent.edu/democracy–symposium April […]

March 28, 2001

Native Americans

Survey Confirms Tribal College Role in Alleviating Unemployment

Survey Confirms Tribal College Role in Alleviating UnemploymentWASHINGTON — A new national survey reveals that tribal college graduates do very well in the workplace, offering new hope that higher education can be a big boost to one of the nation’s poorest and most undereducated minority groups.The study, Creating Role Models for Change: A Survey of […]

June 21, 2000

Leadership & Policy

BI What’s New

Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master’s degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems faced by urban communities. According to a university prospectus: “A primary objective of the … program in public health is to provide […]

April 26, 2000

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EventsAPRILApril 15-19, 2000National Forum for Black Public Administrators18th Annual Conference“Strategic Investment Imperatives for Public Administration”Charlotte, N.C.Contact: John SaundersPhone: (202) 408-9306Fax: (202) 408-8558E-mail: [email protected]: www.nfbpa.orgApril 15-19, 2000University Continuing Education Association85th Annual Conference“Riding the Wave: Strategies for the New Futures of Higher Education”San DiegoContact: Francis GloverPhone: (202) 659-3130Fax: (202) 785-0374E-mail: [email protected]: www.nucea.eduApril 24-28American Educational Research Association81st Annual […]

April 12, 2000

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Technology, Learning and the Future of Education

Technology, Learning and the Future of EducationA few weeks ago, a newly minted dot-com millionaire opined in The New York Times that higher education was hardly necessary. Why not put it all on the Internet, he asked — the great books, stirring lectures and rigorous exams? Why not let people teach themselves? Why allow higher […]

April 12, 2000

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Public College Creates For-Profit Distance Ed Company

Public College Creates For-Profit Distance Ed CompanyWhen traditional, nonprofit higher education institutions opt to provide distance education, they soon discover that such an enterprise requires institutional experiences and skills not normally found among campus administrators. Recognizing its limitations in this area, the University of Maryland-University College recently won approval to create a for-profit, marketing business […]

January 5, 2000

Faculty & Staff

Tech Briefa

Study Shows Most Adult Education Programs Offer Distance Learning NEW YORK — Nearly 69 percent of adult and continuing education programs offer distance learning courses, a new study shows.The Survey of Adult and Continuing Education Progams in Higher Education also found that the most common credentials offered through distance learning courses are non-degree certificates. Other […]

December 22, 1999

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The Evolving Quest for A Desegregation Definition

The Evolving Quest for A Desegregation DefinitionOvercoming more than a century of discrimination against African Americans in higher education involves questions of law and public policy. The legal issues focus on southern and border states that once operated systems of higher education segregated by race. Over the years, public policy debates have centered on the […]

November 10, 1999

Students

Bringing It Back to the Basics

Bringing It Back to the BasicsIn a High-Tech World Where Many Colleges Are Scrambling to Acquire the Most Advanced Curriculums, Others Are Being Progressive by Teaching the Fundamentals By Eleanor Lee YatesBALTIMORE — Michael Miller always struggled with school. “I was considered to be slow,” recalls the 26-year-old. After repeating the 10th grade twice — […]

October 13, 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