Black Issues in Higher Education

The lack of African American males in our schools has been well documented. This trend is perhaps most problematic in urban environments, where the challenge of reaching students has become more difficult for teachers who are often cultures and generations...

CLEMSON, S.C. A recent $150,000 gift to the Call Me Mister program will be a "tremendous boost" to the project's future, says Dr. Tom Parks, a Clemson University professor and director of the program, which hopes to place 200 African American men...

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Sun Microsystems Inc. and TopCoder Inc. named Duke University junior David Arthur, originally from Toronto, the winner of the 2003 Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge last month. At a competition in Cambridge, Mass.,...

The research enterprise is the cornerstone of the modern academy. It is so much a feature of the landscape that perhaps it's not surprising that no aspect of the scholarly condition has been subject to more hand-wringing, myth-making and conjecture...

BATON ROUGE, LA. Just a year after three of Louisiana's historically Black universities were placed on probation for low passage rates on the national teacher certification exam, they were told that they have now some of the highest passage rates...

College and federal employees need more training to make the nation's new student visa system work effectively, says a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Amid mounting concern about the new Student and Exchange Visitor Information System...

ATLANTA Losing a bid to win back its accreditation, historically Black Morris Brown College is also losing its president. Dr. Charles E. Taylor, resigned a week after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools released a letter denying the...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. Black and Hispanic women, especially Black women in more affluent neighborhoods, are overrepresented in police-reported domestic violence information compiled by the Rhode Island Department of Health, according to a new analysis...

AUSTIN, TEXAS Legislators have proposed eliminating the Texas Academic Program Skills Test, which has been used for more than a decade to decide whether students are ready for college classes. Opponents of the test see it as an obstacle to the state's...

As they say in the academy, "publish or perish." That's music to some scholars' ears. Nothing is more interesting and causes such intellectual stimulation, yet at the same time causes such extreme frustration and stress than their own research--and...