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• More Black Students Took AP Exams in 2009 — Where and Why

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 103
  The positive developments in Black education rarely make the national news, and so you may well have missed the story out of Maryland and South Carolina, that significantly greater numbers of African American high school students are choosing to take Advanced Placement (AP) exams. This is an important change ...
  4 days ago

• Black Quadruplets All Accepted To Yale

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 590
  From the NY Times: DANBURY, Conn. — Ray Crouch, a senior at Danbury High School, logged onto the computer in his family’s living room just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday and entered the Web site of the Yale admissions office. Suddenly the screen turned blue — Yale blue — and an image of a bulldog, the university ...
  1 week ago

• Wordless Wednesday: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Then and Now

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 103
  Then… Alpha Phi Alpha founders, 1906 ( Source: Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. Centennial Site and the Cornell U Library ) *** …and Now Members of the Alpha Rho chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. from Morehouse College, 2009. ( Source: Access Atlanta ) *** For more wonderful and historic photos of Alpha Phi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Graduation Gap Between Black And White Football Players Increases

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 590
  From the Orlando Sentinel: While overall academic progress continued for the 67 bowl-bound teams this season, the gap between white and African-American football players increased slightly, according to a study released Monday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at UCF. This year, 61 of the 67 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notable Black College Grads: Dartmouth, Depaul, Detroit, Dillard, Drew, Duke

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 103
  Noted African American woman poet Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an 1892 gradauted of historically Black Dillard University. ( Source: Wikimedia Commons) *** I am continuing to build the blackoncampus.com roster of Notable Black College Graduates. Today I have added prominent African American alums whose alma maters ...
  3 weeks ago

• Old School Friday: Howard University’s First Commencement Exercises

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 111
  Howard University in the late 1800s. (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) *** From the June 9, 1881 issue of The Christian Recorder HOWARD UNIVERSITY BY E.P.C. Howard University, under the administration of President Patton, is rapidly improving. She had, on the 13th inst., Class Day exercises ...
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• College Degrees Don’t Close Hiring Gap For Black Job-Hunters

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 590
  From the NY Times: Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago on his résumé. But after graduating from business school last year and not having much ...
  4 weeks ago

• Put Down That Turkey Leg! Lincoln University Has Its Eye on Your Waistline

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 111
  From the New York Times : You might worry about your body weight fluctuating in college, but did you ever think that gaining the notorious freshman 15 could keep you from graduating? National Public Radio reported this week that at Lincoln University , a historically black college in rural Pennsylvania, more ...
  4 weeks ago

• 4 Black Students Scholarships

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 158
  Four Black students have become recipients of one of the nation’s most prestigious scholarships. This is the second year since 1994 that four Black students have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships. The honor will allow them to study at Oxford University, England’s most elite and celebrated institution. Two of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Inner City Schools: Funding Should be Equal Across the Board

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Dr. Boyce Money , Education The following is an excerpt from the book, "Black American Money." I saw some random "expert" on a "60 Minutes" segment discussing the state of the education system. The man was attempting to argue that more resources wont make a difference in the quality of our ...
  4 weeks ago

• (Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: North Carolina A&T Band Makes NASCAR History

  
  Black On Campus — Authority: 103
  In October of this year, the Blue and Gold Marching Machine of Black North Carolina A&T, a historically Black university, became the first college band ever to play at a NASCAR event. For more on this historic moment, follow THIS LINK . Posted by Ajuan Mance
  4 weeks ago

• Despite Recruitment, Few Black Students Attend Coast Guard School

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 590
  WASHINGTON — Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single ...
  4 weeks ago

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