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Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications

Workshop Highlights Homeland Security, Energy Applications WASHINGTONHoward University’s Continuing Education department held the 20th Annual HBCU Summer Faculty Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Workshop for more than 25 participants from around the country. Faculty, students, government and private-sector experts attended the workshop for training in the use of GIS and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technologies. GIS […]

September 10, 2003

Community Colleges

Baltimore Community College To Offer Online Law Enforcement Degree

Baltimore Community College To Offer Online Law Enforcement DegreeBy Ronald Roach BaltimoreBaltimore City Community College (BCCC) will offer an associate’s degree in law enforcement entirely online beginning this fall. Online courses will include Introduction to Criminal Justice, Fundamentals of Law Enforcement, People’s Law, Organizational Dynamics, and Investigative Principles and Concepts, and others. All course requirements, […]

August 27, 2003

Leadership & Policy

An Overlooked Oasis?

An Overlooked Oasis? Education advocates say two-year institutions should not be considered an afterthought, but rather belong at the centerpiece of the nation’s higher education agendaBy Kendra HamiltonWhile the decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court in June regarding the University of Michigan’s admissions policies is being rightly hailed by defenders of affirmative action and […]

August 27, 2003

A Nation Still at Risk, Panel Says

A Nation Still at Risk, Panel SaysTwo decades after publication of landmark education study, scholars find little progressBy Ben HammerWASHINGTONIn late April, the U.S. Department of Education brought a handful of leading scholars together to mark the anniversary of the 1983 report “A Nation at Risk” that brought the country’s attention to a broken education […]

May 21, 2003

Grambling Online Joins Army Education Program

Grambling Online Joins Army Education ProgramBy Ronald Roach GRAMBLING, La.Grambling State University’s Distance Learning program, also known as Grambling Online, is joining the consortium of higher education institutions which offer courses through eArmyU, a virtual university program for U.S. Army personnel. Managed by IBM Business Consulting Services, eArmyU is the largest virtual university program for […]

February 26, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Stepping Outside the Ivy Walls

Stepping Outside the Ivy WallsPost-Academe brings New Opportunities, New Benefits By Phaedra Brotherton FAIRFAX, Va.Drs. Johnnie and Leroy Miles have a special partnership. Married for 35 years, they have supported each other in their educational pursuits and even taught at the same university for 22 years. And when Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia […]

November 20, 2002

Faculty & Staff

N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace Institute

N.C. A&T, Others, Win Bid to Develop Aerospace InstituteNational research facility to become a strategic partner with NASABy Ronald Roach GREENSBORO, N.C.North Carolina A&T State University is among a consortium of six universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics that will develop and manage the proposed National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) for the […]

November 6, 2002

Dear BI Career Consultant:

Dear BI Career Consultant:What funding strategies can development officers create to offset state mandated budget cuts to my university?It is common knowledge that the costs and funding of public sector higher education have escalated and become more complex. The findings from a recent national report “Losing Ground: A National Status Report on the Affordability of […]

August 28, 2002

Growing Online Turfgrass Program Hits Milestone

Growing Online Turfgrass Program Hits MilestoneUniversity Park, Pa.Pennsylvania State University officials recently announced that the World Campus online certificate program in turfgrass management reached the milestone of enrolling students in all 50 states. The milestone was reached this past spring semester for the program that is four years old, according to school officials. “It’s great […]

July 3, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Finding Room for Improvement

Finding Room for ImprovementHoward University-based team rates HBCU Web sitesThe perception that a “digital divide” exists in higher education between historically Black institutions and most predominantly White colleges and universities has enabled advocates for Black schools to raise money, attract computer equipment donations, and build awareness to help bridge the divide.One effort that started this […]

December 5, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Taking Stock of GIS Technology at HBCUs

Taking Stock of GIS Technology at HBCUsRecent surveys of information technology resources at historically Black colleges and universities have yielded not only valuable information technology inventories but have provided the basis for new funding and equipment made available to Black campuses by government agencies and Black college organizations, such as the United Negro College Fund. […]

September 12, 2001

University of Kansas to Honor Langston Hughes in 100th Birthday Celebration

University of Kansas to Honor Langston Hughes in 100th Birthday CelebrationLawrence, KansasPulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker and actors Danny Glover, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis are among the artists and scholars planning to celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of writer Langston Hughes on Jan. 31 and again from Feb. 7 to 10 at the University […]

August 1, 2001

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