Explores why Black colleges continue to play guarantee games (in which prominent Division I men's basketball teams pay smaller teams a fee to play them) given the reality of losses by huge margins, and how they reconcile the need to earn money with the need for athletes to have a chance to be truly competitive. (EV)

Describes how Fisk University's newly restructured radio station joins other Black college stations working to boost their image while serving the campus and community. (EV)

Describes how within the last 2 years, several historically Black colleges (Benedict College, Allen University, Edward Waters College, Paul Quinn College, Lincoln University, Stillman College) have dusted the cobwebs off their football programs, most of which had been dormant for decades. The result has been increasing enrollment, income, and…

Describes the administrative team Dr. Johnetta Cole has assembled at Bennett College, one of the only two historically black colleges for women in the United States. Bennett, which has faced many difficulties in recent years, appears poised to rebound. (SLD)

Discusses why Phi Beta Kappa remains a remote influence at historically Black institutions and on Black students at predominantly White college campuses. (EV)

Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia responds to questions about his austerity program, coeducation at Virginia Military Institute, the role of Black colleges, South African divestiture, his political plans, and his personal views on education. (DM)

After shepherding more than a dozen Black Mississippi plaintiffs in the landmark Ayers v. Fordice case for nearly 30 years, Alvin O. Chambliss Jr. says he never would have agreed to a $503 million settlement agreement as restitution for the state's three historically Black universities or a portion of the $2.5 million the court allocated for…

Historically black colleges and universities are finding the community college to be a valuable resource as they try to recruit students of color. Focuses on the PASSport program of Norfolk State University and the Tidewater Community College system, which allows students to take remedial work at the community college level before enrolling. (SLD)

More black leaders are making the deliberate choice to serve historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). However, black leaders whose careers have been mainly at black schools find it nearly impossible to attain leadership positions at either majority white schools or national higher education organizations. Controversy over the issue…

Explores the digital divide at historically Black colleges and universities, a technology gap that keeps overwhelmingly minority populations from participating in or benefiting from the information technology revolution. Describes efforts to remedy the problem at various schools, controversy over the existence of such a divide, and mobilization of…

Discusses the settlements recently reached between the federal Office of Civil Rights and several Southern and border states concerning desegregation in higher education. Explores problems at historically black colleges and the climate in the new Republican administration for addressing inequitable behavior by states toward such schools. (EV)

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)

Describes how historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are adopting advancement models allowing a more cohesive and lucrative approach to development. The opportunities that HBCUs are exploring now include: non-alumni donor development, online contributions, alumni giving, endowment development, challenge grants, faculty and staff…

An outpouring of support--in various forms--was all it took to change the mind of Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Bennett College, who had decided on April 27 to resign from the 132-year-old Black college for women. In a prepared statement, Cole described how it felt to see supporters lined up at the president's house when she returned home…

Columbia has the Pulitzer Prize, Harvard has the Nieman and the University of Georgia has the Peabody award. Now North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University has the lofty goal of joining the ranks of the elite with a prestigious journalism institute and prize all its own. With a new home and plans to unveil an award for…