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New Football Program Presents Golden Opportunity for Lincoln University

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, September 24, 2008

With the start of the new academic year, Lincoln University has made some big changes to its campus. The nation’s oldest Black college resurrected its football team and created a marching band. The institution and its president Ivory V. Nelson hope that theses changes will attract more students to the

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The NCLBification of Higher Education

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, September 22, 2008

One of the most significant yet subtle ways that the No Child Left Behind Act has affected higher education is by shaping the requirements for students intending to become teachers. In this way, although NCLB is a federal act directed at K-12 education, its effects have traveled up the educational

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Affirmative Action is Still Relevant and Needed

by Dr. Elwood Watson, September 18, 2008

       A few weeks ago, the anti-affirmative action ballot measure in Arizona that was supported by Republican presidential candidate John McCain and Black conservative opportunist and hypocrite Ward Connerly failed to garner enough support to be placed on the ballot. Earlier this year, a similar referendum in Oklahoma faced a

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Virginia State Election Board’s Use of Jim Crow-like Student Residency Questionnaire Raises Voting Rights Questions

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 17, 2008

 The New York Timesreports that E. Randall Wertz, the county registrar of voters in Montgomery County, Va., recently issued two outrageous and confusing (at best) press releases with regard to college student voter registration.             The first of the official missives made several patently false claims:  1) the parents of

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Advising Students to the Ph.D.: Are We Equitable in Our Support?

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, September 15, 2008

A recent report published in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education states that Ph.D. completion varies by gender and race.  Specifically, the 10-year completion rate for Whites was 55 percent, for Hispanics it was 51 percent, for Asian Americans it was 50 percent and for African Americans the rate was only

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