Examines a trend at many colleges, including historically black colleges and universities, to eliminate the yearbook due to cost and administrative problems. Notes that what is overlooked are benefits of the printed yearbook, including advancing the institution and providing students with training in publication processes. Suggests that faculty…

Summarizes the major legal, political, and other historic events that have transformed access to higher education for people of color in the twentieth century. (DB)

Dwindling attendance at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education's annual conference suggests that the lobbying group for black colleges has become irrelevant for higher-education professionals. The association's history, activities, and new initiatives are discussed, and the opinions of external constituents and…

Explores how, as more African Americans earn doctorates, a look behind the numbers reveals that doctoral students are going into industry, foundations, and academic counseling-markets that do not represent students' original intent. (EV)

An interview with Arthur Levine, the president of Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), discusses diversity, school vouchers, recruiting new teachers, affirmative action, student attitudes about race, the need for advocacy groups to counter the conservative National Association of Scholars, and his latest book, "Diversity on…

The centennial year of Edward K. "Duke" Ellington's birth has inspired many American colleges and universities to convene tribute concerts and conferences. However, few schools offer majors in jazz-related studies; those that do often maintain strict separation between jazz and classical music instruction. Many in the jazz-education…

Recent data indicate that while the total number of degree earners of color continues to rise, their proportional representation within the total number of degree earners has shown only modest gains in the last five years. African Americans are at the lower end of this growth range, and Hispanics are at the higher end. (MSE)

The number of students who want to get into the University of California topped 100,000 for the first time this year, including nearly 9,000 students seeking one of the 1,000 spots at the new campus of Merced. Two-thirds of the applications, or about 76,000, were from freshmen looking to attend UC's nine undergraduate campuses this fall, a nearly…

While there are many black athletes in sports, there are few black coaches and athletic administrators. This is true in professional sports and even more obvious in college athletics. The Center for the Study of Sport in Society's Racial Report Card for 1997, which now also covers college athletics, offers statistics illustrating this trend. (MSE)

Dramatic expansion of environmental education in historically black colleges and universities has occurred in recent years through partnerships with the federal government. A minority-institution environmental technology consortium, an environmental justice movement, and the College Fund/United Negro College Fund have been influential in creating…

The thirty-year history of the Black Studies program at Harvard University (Massachusetts) is chronicled, focusing on the roles of recent administrators and the program 's emerging identity within the community of African-American scholarship. Emphasis is placed on the influence of the current administrator, Dr. Henry Louis ("Skip")…

The anti-affirmative-action climate appears to have affected the Association of American Medical Colleges' Project 3000 X 2000, which seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities entering medical schools to 3,000 by the year 2000. Despite early enrollment gains, the number of underrepresented minorities among freshman medical…

Examination of Black Studies programs notes there are currently fewer programs than in the 1960s and 1970s, but that existing programs are healthier and offer a greater diversity of approaches. Tables list total minority associate and baccalaureate degrees awarded in area/ethnic/cultural studies. Notes the influence of celebrity professors,…

Currently, about 200 colleges and universities offer programs in jazz performance. Although many are in conservatories, the majority reside in college and university music departments. This development reflects a changing jazz infrastructure, formerly centered in local bands but increasingly based in a network of higher education institutions, and…

In an interview, Dr. Henry Louis ("Skip") Gates, Jr., discusses the status of black studies both at his home institution, Harvard University (Massachusetts), and in the academy; the changing image of African American intellectuals; and the challenges of managing a full intellectual career in the current higher education environment.…