The Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, the United Negro College Fund, and the Siemens Foundation have collaborated to establish the Siemens Teacher Scholarships, aimed at encouraging minority students to pursue teaching careers in math and science. This brief article discusses the details of the new program.

Ten years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled its Helping Outstanding Pupils…

Since the 1990s, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as one of the most visible and widely read scholars on topics relating to African-American life and society. The Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, Dyson counts himself as one of many African-Americans who found comedian Bill Cosby's May 17, 2004,…

Presents profiles of several promising young Black scholars. (EV)

A hip-hop archive at Harvard University? Classes at Berkeley, Stanford, Michigan, Yale and MIT? Panel discussions on Jay-Z and Nas sandwiched between Milton and the Harlem Renaissance at the Modern Language Association conference? The sea of change under way in the academy started in 1994 with two historians: Dr. Tricia Rose, now of the University…

Over the past two decades, Black Issues writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine's stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them above their peers in excellence has not proven an easy task. 20 individuals who have had a significant impact in the…

As the exceptional scholars presented here note, in addition to their attraction to intellectual matters, the academy affords them the opportunity to teach, which some describe as their calling, their mission and their life's work. In concert with the value of their research, publications, awards, fellowships and civic service, these scholars…

Introduces the new director of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, Dwyane Ashley, who sees his role as doing for the 65 public black colleges what the United Negro College Fund has done for the 39 private black colleges. Ashley's goals include providing technical assistance to member colleges and the creation of innovative partnerships. (DB)

Discusses how, because of its richness and controversy, the study of slavery has captured the interest and imagination of many different theorists. Today, with new technologies and research trends, the study of slavery is entering an accelerated cycle. (EV)

After a difficult period in the 1960s and 1970s, historically Black institutions are enjoying a renaissance as more academically gifted students are enrolling. Since the 1980s, historically Black institutions have become increasingly skillful at recruiting and enrolling the nation's highest-achieving Black high school students. (JM)

Describes the Minority Research Scholars Program (MRSP) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, which funds the education of a group of minority students in seven disciplines: science, engineering and technology, social work, nursing, dental hygiene, physical education, and allied health. The program includes research projects,…

College sports is a numbers game, full of so many calculations--batting averages, free-throw percentages, BCS and RPI scores--that keeping them all straight can be a full-time job for a sports program. Now, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has put a new number on the table, and it has captured the attention of every athletic director,…

Black women scholars are working to rebuild the canon of African-American studies to include a feminist perspective and a richer, more complex view of Black life. Senior women professors are publicly criticizing what they see as the male-centered scholarship of African-American studies. (MSE)

Latina scholars have been instrumental in the development of ethnic studies and contributed to feminist studies, but it is only recently that Latina feminist scholarship is finding recognition for its own merit. Relations of this active group with white feminists are still not strong. (MSE)

This timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education almost as long as Black Issues In Higher Education has been in print. The ongoing legal battles have primarily involved the further desegregation of schools and the use of race and gender in scholarships and university…